<333! I got way way way too into the creation of this fake TV show, and by the end despaired that it wasn't really real. If I wrote this fannish AU, it would be interspersed with 'actual scenes' from the TV show. It'll be like 'The OC', but with proto-communists, and it will befuddle/enrage the scholars! (JENNY/QUICK-WITTED BARMAID 4EVR)
The fic vs. original writing divide is strange and displeasing! I used to write loads of original short stories, even poetry, but now I'm so entrenched that when I don't have a pre-made POV to tweak, I'm sort of useless! I only tweak, I don't build from the ground up, not anymore. It's a more different way of thinking than I realized, and I'm out of practice. And it's also the gratification of being involved in the fannish community, the communal squee of reaction posts and immediate feedback on stories that are just so easy and fun to settle for. Push yourself, self!
I need original writing prompts or something. At least.
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The fic vs. original writing divide is strange and displeasing! I used to write loads of original short stories, even poetry, but now I'm so entrenched that when I don't have a pre-made POV to tweak, I'm sort of useless! I only tweak, I don't build from the ground up, not anymore. It's a more different way of thinking than I realized, and I'm out of practice. And it's also the gratification of being involved in the fannish community, the communal squee of reaction posts and immediate feedback on stories that are just so easy and fun to settle for. Push yourself, self!
I need original writing prompts or something. At least.