November 2018, day 25

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

One last effort, my friends, before pre-Christmas frenzy overtakes us all...

Here is the place to tell us about your daily success (or the lack of it)!
May the magic be with us all!

Comments

[ferretingabout.livejournal.com]

editing is the hardest part. those critical decisions! i always keep a 'dead' file of all the bits i've cut, just because i can't let go of the bits until the whole thing is done. just because they're not in the final piece doesn't devalue the work imo.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh, I agree. I sometimes post these things separately, so that the public could see them.
It's the world-building and background stuff that tends to run away from me. As somebody said in one of the earlier pico sessions, it hurts not to share all that wonderful research. *g*

[ferretingabout.livejournal.com]

your last comment has fired off the ferretbrain - fb is very similar to a turning machine - and it's popped something out.

1. why can't the research be a stand-alone piece in and of itself?
2. have you heard or ever read Tales of Nevèrÿon?

if one is getting that much /inside/ a world and exploring the archeology (for want of a better word) of that world, then it is purely logical imo to be looking at producing supporting documentation - we have maps of these worlds, we have language for these worlds in terms of translations of each characters dialects, therefore why wouldn't we things like what they would read, or enjoy themselves? in exploring that 'other world' culture, we are as writers some strange anthropologists unearthing as we go...

i'll shut up now...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

No, it's all right! I did that for my original fiction: drawing maps and figuring out the history of entire peoples and stuff like that. It's a bit more tricky with fanfic, as most of such stuff is already given and fanon is so determined by big name authors that the majority of readers won't accept/be interested in any other version.

[ferretingabout.livejournal.com]

i hate this type of fandom facism. i don't see why anyone can't create their own little versionette and play inside that. i love reading the au variants.

saying that if one is writing to order, i accept that one must adhere to forms of the requestee.