thirty days of fanfic, day nineteen
Sep. 19th, 2011 11:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jlhI spaced on this a little over the weekend, so I'm posting three at once in three entries because the entry about titles was super long (and self-indulgent, ha).
(list of questions can be found at day one)
one | two | three | four | five | six | seven | eight | nine | ten | eleven | twelve| thirteen | fourteen | fifteen | sixteen | seventeen | eighteen
19 – When you have bunnies, do you sit down and start writing right away, or do you write down the idea for further use?
These days, I write them down for future use because I have a bit of a backlog of stories in the hopper and honestly, I don't want any more ideas. Not until some of this stuff gets written. But at least the HP sequel is finally done after like, five years, so I don't have that hanging over my head anymore. And I'm well satisfied with how it turned out!
My fic-writing and planning style is to come up with an idea and let it percolate in my head for a while before taking pen to paper, which is probably why I almost never abandon something once I've started writing it. This makes TV fandoms difficult for me because I'm never going to be the one reacting immediately to an episode of the show, but the past two summer hiatuses have been taken up with big bangs, hence my being so behind on that Community fic (though I'm hoping to write the White Collar fic now, during the fall hiatus). American Idol fandom moved slowly enough that one didn't have to react immediately--you weren't really going to get Jossed, after all. But sometimes reality show fic has "jumped the queue," like the rpf I wrote for The Voice, because I knew I had to strike while that iron was hot. Of course, Yuletide also gets written pretty immediately, because there's a time crunch there.
I use my WIP update post to keep track. It's like a to-do list for me. It's also where ideas can sit and wait while I think about them, reconsider them, maybe not write them after all, and also pick them up after a long time, dust them off, and finally finish them.
(list of questions can be found at day one)
one | two | three | four | five | six | seven | eight | nine | ten | eleven | twelve| thirteen | fourteen | fifteen | sixteen | seventeen | eighteen
19 – When you have bunnies, do you sit down and start writing right away, or do you write down the idea for further use?
These days, I write them down for future use because I have a bit of a backlog of stories in the hopper and honestly, I don't want any more ideas. Not until some of this stuff gets written. But at least the HP sequel is finally done after like, five years, so I don't have that hanging over my head anymore. And I'm well satisfied with how it turned out!
My fic-writing and planning style is to come up with an idea and let it percolate in my head for a while before taking pen to paper, which is probably why I almost never abandon something once I've started writing it. This makes TV fandoms difficult for me because I'm never going to be the one reacting immediately to an episode of the show, but the past two summer hiatuses have been taken up with big bangs, hence my being so behind on that Community fic (though I'm hoping to write the White Collar fic now, during the fall hiatus). American Idol fandom moved slowly enough that one didn't have to react immediately--you weren't really going to get Jossed, after all. But sometimes reality show fic has "jumped the queue," like the rpf I wrote for The Voice, because I knew I had to strike while that iron was hot. Of course, Yuletide also gets written pretty immediately, because there's a time crunch there.
I use my WIP update post to keep track. It's like a to-do list for me. It's also where ideas can sit and wait while I think about them, reconsider them, maybe not write them after all, and also pick them up after a long time, dust them off, and finally finish them.
