| The Drabble Phenomenon |
[Nov. 22nd, 2005|07:44 pm] |
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Tin asked me to come up with this week's topic, so I'll talk about something that I've been wondering for a while: The Drabble Phenomenon.
I'm actually curious as to where it started and how it came about. I remember when "fanfiction" was mostly either longer one-shots or series fics. It wasn't uncommon to come across reams and reams of series fics that were left unfinished and untouched for years at 1 or 2 chapters.
The drabble phenomenon seems to have swept the genre(s) by storm. I don't deny that it's made writing fanfiction a lot more challenging, though in a fun way, because of the length requirement of usually no more than 100 words. But sometimes I miss the old days of one shots and unfinished series. I don't quite want to advocate one as "better" than the other, becaues God knows I've read my share of drabbles that have hit me HARD because of the power of those carefully chosen 100 words.
Thoughts? |
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| Another place, another time |
[Nov. 10th, 2005|12:18 am] |
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This week's topic is: AUs. Love 'em, hate 'em, couldn't live without 'em? What differentiates an AU that "works" for you, from one that doesn't? Also, if you've written any (well, putting aside that all fanfiction is more or less an exercise in writing some degree of AU) do you go about it any differently than you do when writing other sorts of fanfiction? |
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| pretend this is a) on time b) makes sense |
[Oct. 31st, 2005|12:13 am] |
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Do you think there's such a thing as originality in fanfic, or is it just as matter of accepting that there is no such thing as an original plot and simply trying to put your own twist on an old story?
To be exact I'm thinking of shipper fic but the fact is if I have seen one 'Character Angsts About His Past' fic I have written fifteen of them. And sometimes you start to wonder uneasily about the fandom mindmeld, when you think 'nobody's done a fic about X meeting Y and Z after Event C, have they?', start the fic and discover two other versions of the same event.
And does the lack - percieved or otherwise - bother you, or do you just go on your merry way? |
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| original fiction vs. fanfiction |
[Oct. 22nd, 2005|10:30 am] |
To start things off: What do you think is the difference between original fiction and fanfiction? Aside from the obvious, that is, which is to say: in terms of writing style, for example, or story structure. To put it in another way: Do you approach the writing of fanfiction differently from how you write original work? How?
(This topic may sound a little too reductive but sometimes I do think that those anti-fanfic rants may have something to do with a sort of sublimated anxiety complex with regard to how writing fanfic inevitably conditions (or impairs) the capability to write original fiction, though the question of whether or not there ought to be a distinction is definitely a matter of perception. Which brings me back to my first question). |
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| [ADMIN] Hiatus over~ |
[Oct. 19th, 2005|06:55 pm] |
Hi, everyone. Sorry if the community just sort of died on us all the past year ^_^; Anyhow, we're reviving it and we'll try to keep it afloat this time. Same format applies though I've revised the userinfo pending revision by my fellow mods: information about the community (and it's really been so long, some of you have probably forgotten what the heck this is about).
A new topic for discussion will be posted on Friday so we can stick to a more or less consistent schedule. Thanks for sticking around (or for being too lazy to actually delete the community from your flist XD).
If you've got suggestions for how we're going to run it this time, please do comment. |
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[Feb. 10th, 2004|05:10 pm] |
Hi. ^^; Yes, we're still alive. Apologies for the long hiatus ^_^;;; We'll try to post more regularly from now on. If you've any suggestions with regard to future topics, please comment!
I've recently seen this topic being (re)circulated and spawning, shall we say, heated debates ^^; It's not so much a touchy issue for me as a relevant one given my own personal record, so I'd like to know:
Do you think that fanfic authors should finish their WIPs, even those of which that they are no longer interested in, just to satisfy their readers? To put it in more general (and dogmatic) terms, what do you think are the responsibilities of *fic* writers to their readership? Should *there* be responsibilities, and to what extent? (I'm trying to delimit this topic and so will not yet raise the whys and wherefores of a fic writer's responsibility to herself, which issue seems to inevitably conflate with what she is perceived to owe her readers. It's not just question of "who writes for whom?" I think. Should a writer who declares that she only writes for herself -- and thus assumes responsiblity for her work in a sense -- therefore not be subject to the obligations inherent in being read by people other than herself?) |
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[Oct. 9th, 2003|04:01 pm] |
Hi everyone. I was thinking of asking something about fandoms and, uh, centralization and how that sort of impacts on the way people write fic but I couldn't think of a way of putting it without sounding like utter twat. So, maybe later. ^^v
In the meantime, this question is based on a throwaway comment by ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) lacewood in my fic journal, and applies especially to anime fandoms -- would you say that different series encourage different kinds of writing (or aspects thereof)? For example, Pei Yi said that when she wrote Mankin, she felt like she had to 'add details' to her story, whereas Bleach is a work that makes her think of writing with plot. Do you have a similar conception?
On the other hand, how is this different or how will you distinguish this from the writing conventions spawned exclusively by fandom? I don't mean fanon details but the writing process itself -- style, choice of genre, narrative. To put it more precisely (I hope), what is the difference between writing for a fandom and writing for the series on which that fandom is based? Is there even a difference? If so, when does this come in? |
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| Sorry, guys. >.<; Noncanon couplings. |
[Oct. 1st, 2003|09:35 am] |
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Busy weekend. Busy week. >_<;;;
So, anyway. If you know Tin and I, you know we accidentally half-started the screaming popularity of ExT in CCS fandom. [We swear we didn't mean to do it! We just wrote some stuff! As a joke! And then we went, huh, this could, you know work, and the next thing we knew there was this WAVE of screaming fangirls all over it! And then I wrote Icebreakers. >.>;]
So what do people think of noncanon couples in fic? I'm not so much speaking of the "Well, the Heroine should OBVIOUSLY go with So And So Neighbor, even though she's Insanely In Love with Cool Sempai Who Needs A Jolly Good Thump Over The Head" sort of couples, or of -- she weeps to admit -- the crowd that pairs Daisuke with Satoshi [sadly, Riku is rapidly becoming very uncool. T_T I used to LIKE her, dammit!], of which she is a member, or of, God bless them, the sort of people who wave their Tomoyo x Sakura banners high; as I am the secondary couples that fandom tends to pick up on. Do you read that sort of pairing? Do you write that sort of pairing?
And do you write and read them if the only canon justification is a few looks and your interpertation of their personalities? [Couples like Izumi and Meroko or Selphie and Irving are one thing. They aren't the primary couple, but the relationship is established in canon.] Why do you think people write them at all? |
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| another loop |
[Sep. 22nd, 2003|01:03 am] |
Hey. Thanks to everyone who replied to the first Ficcated topic ^_^ Seems like we're off to a good start. I hope we don't lose the luv. Or something. ^^;
For this week's discussion, I'd like to raise the issue of fanfic writing, emotional investment and reader reviews. This topic *has* been mauled over and over again in different forums, but any given fandom at any given point in (fandom) time seems to present a progressively weirder variation of it, so I guess another iteration shouldn't hurt. Much.
I've been trying to distill the topic into something intelligible (??), and this is what I've got:
Do you feel that a writer is entitled to your review once you are made aware of the depth of emotional investment she has in her fanfiction, fannish or otherwise? To put it negatively, would you be inclined (more or less) to review a story in which the writer has persistently disclaimed -- or remained silent on -- her biases toward the story? If you were to review both types of authors, *how* would you review them? Would there be a distinction?
Please note that fic quality itself isn't a relevant criterion. Of course, extra-Ficcated, it IS, and we're not junking it in this discussion. But just this once let's try to reduce the issue to a writer's personal statement, or lack thereof, about her story.
(For example (or should I say to overstate ^^;;), if I were to declare that I wrote Story 1 when I was in the grip of severe emotional depression or frenzied genius-burning or both, how would you react to that declaration, and how would you write your review afterward? Would you even review me? What about if I were then to say that Story 2 is something I wrote because I was bored or because I was playing around or because it seemed 'fun'? And what if I said nothing at all?) |
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[Sep. 15th, 2003|11:53 am] |
Hi everyone ^_^ Welcome to Ficcated; thanks for joining. I hope we all have fun here *ahem*. lazulisong has already posted this week's Topic, so rant away/share your thoughts if you feel like it. Meg and I will be alternating in posting topics per week; eventually, once things have settled a bit, maybe members will get to post their own, by rote. As for posting guidelines, like we said, this community follows the format for discussion of LJ fic/drabble communities. But instead of writing a fic entry, you guys write wank your thoughts on the topic of choice. You don't have to comment on the topic entry itself; you can post separate entries if you want. ^_^v |
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| AAAACK >_<;;; Sorry! First rant topic. |
[Sep. 13th, 2003|11:40 pm] |
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My ISP is having Issues. I will kill them.
First rant topic: Gay in fic. Particularly the random sort that shows up when you wouldn't expect to see it. Like, for instance, Chiaki and Minazuki-kun having a sweet, tender romance, or, of course, the classic example of Squall, God bless him. Rinoa? Didn't she have a minor part in that game?
So, yeah.
Behave yourselves. Let's see what you guys come up with. |
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