December 28: given all your fandoms, is there something that unites your pan-fandom interests? (for ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
rthstewart) [Tumblr crosspost]
Ack, this is a hard one!
I don't think there are any hard and fast rules, but two general principles are that 1) I am unlikely to write much for a fandom unless it is print-media based (whether books or comics/manga), and 2) I am unlikely to be interested in a fandom in the first place (for writing or for reading) unless it has an aspect of the fantastical. Or, more accurately, unless it has some aspect that is clearly and obviously removed from everyday modern life in America. For instance, historical fiction occasionally clicks for me; relatedly, I tend to like 19th century literary classics more than any literary fiction written post-1950. And recently I've been watching Hannibal, which is so stylized and flat-out weird that it trips my "this cannot be real life" interest meter despite nominally claiming to be set in modern America. The print media thing is because of my difficulties with audiovisual media in general, and also because if I'm going to write in a fandom, I want to have ready access to canon so I can spot-check titchy little things as I write. It is a lot easier to flip through a book in search of one specific page than it is to find a particular scene in a movie, let alone a multi-season television show.
I am pickier about writing fandoms than reading fandoms, and not just because of my audiovisual media woes. I need a sense that the canon in question has unfinished corners. Unanswered questions. What-ifs. I need a rough spot to grip. Sometimes this is as simple as a non-POV character's experience of some situation or event, but more often it's a world-building issue. I love creating and organizing worlds, and I don't much care whether the original creation was mine or someone else's.
I also have an interest in female characters, but that's a factor that comes into play more after I've already fallen in love with a fandom and am wondering what specific story to write. The falling in love itself is not a logical process.
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December Talking Meme: All Days
rthstewart) [Tumblr crosspost]Ack, this is a hard one!
I don't think there are any hard and fast rules, but two general principles are that 1) I am unlikely to write much for a fandom unless it is print-media based (whether books or comics/manga), and 2) I am unlikely to be interested in a fandom in the first place (for writing or for reading) unless it has an aspect of the fantastical. Or, more accurately, unless it has some aspect that is clearly and obviously removed from everyday modern life in America. For instance, historical fiction occasionally clicks for me; relatedly, I tend to like 19th century literary classics more than any literary fiction written post-1950. And recently I've been watching Hannibal, which is so stylized and flat-out weird that it trips my "this cannot be real life" interest meter despite nominally claiming to be set in modern America. The print media thing is because of my difficulties with audiovisual media in general, and also because if I'm going to write in a fandom, I want to have ready access to canon so I can spot-check titchy little things as I write. It is a lot easier to flip through a book in search of one specific page than it is to find a particular scene in a movie, let alone a multi-season television show.
I am pickier about writing fandoms than reading fandoms, and not just because of my audiovisual media woes. I need a sense that the canon in question has unfinished corners. Unanswered questions. What-ifs. I need a rough spot to grip. Sometimes this is as simple as a non-POV character's experience of some situation or event, but more often it's a world-building issue. I love creating and organizing worlds, and I don't much care whether the original creation was mine or someone else's.
I also have an interest in female characters, but that's a factor that comes into play more after I've already fallen in love with a fandom and am wondering what specific story to write. The falling in love itself is not a logical process.
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December Talking Meme: All Days
