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Sunday, June 17, 2007
7:58:00 AM EDT
Writing Prompt
I was really hoping for a better response for my writing prompt this past week, so I have decided to extend the deadline through the end of this week. I guess people are actually on vacation, or just busy. I just have one request--please don't tell me you'd like to post a prompt,but then fail to do so (except for you Karen--go to sleep, girl!). In the time you used to post an excuse, you could have been writing. I'm not saying this to be mean-spirited, but instead to encourage you (and myself) to be more creative.
Prologue
Some people may have been put off by the "fan-fiction-ness" of my prompt. I can totally understand this. For a long time, I was rather put off by fan fiction. I found that a lot of it was derivative, and usually self-serving (I'll put myself in peril and my favorite character from tv will come and rescue me). It also fostered a lot of really bad writing, and went places that were sometimes twisted and just not right.
Then I discovered Orson Scott Card's Hatrack River website and its "role-playing, story-telling" boards. I found people that were writing in Card's version of 1830s American (the setting for his Alvin Maker series), and I joined out of curiosity more than anything else. The people I met there from around 1998 through 2001 or so (when I stopped writing there for personal reasons) were amazing writers. Some of them, such as Mindy Klasky have moved on to bigger and better things as you can see from her website.
For a while, I stopped writing this kind of thing all together, however, this week, I changed things a bit. As many of you know, I'm a fan of a local band that is a little different in that it plays rennaissance rock and roll. Over the past few months, I've become active on their website boards, and this week, I started, on a whim, a fan fiction thread. It has taken off, and everyone has been having a ball. It feels good to be creative in an open forum again, but is it really writing, or am I playing around? That, my friends, is the question!
New Writer's Weekly Question #4:
Is fan-fiction a genre that is an acceptable form of expression, or is it just a version of finger-painting for adults? Explain.
Also:
Have you ever or do you currently write fan-fiction? If you yes for either question, why did you choose to do it, and what sort of benefit did you gain from this experience?
Extra Credit:
If you write fan-fiction, please leave a link either in your post or in the comments. Please link to something that's not R or X-rated, as this is a "family show."
How to Answer the Writer's Weekly Question:
1. Post the answer in your journal or in my comments.
2. Leave a link to your journal answer, so all can enjoy it.
Anyone can participate in this meme. I like to hear what even non-writers have to say about the creative process.
I will respond on Tuesday night!
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7:58:00 AM EDT
New Writer's Weekly Question #4: Playing in Someone Else's World
Writing Prompt
I was really hoping for a better response for my writing prompt this past week, so I have decided to extend the deadline through the end of this week. I guess people are actually on vacation, or just busy. I just have one request--please don't tell me you'd like to post a prompt,but then fail to do so (except for you Karen--go to sleep, girl!). In the time you used to post an excuse, you could have been writing. I'm not saying this to be mean-spirited, but instead to encourage you (and myself) to be more creative.
Prologue
Some people may have been put off by the "fan-fiction-ness" of my prompt. I can totally understand this. For a long time, I was rather put off by fan fiction. I found that a lot of it was derivative, and usually self-serving (I'll put myself in peril and my favorite character from tv will come and rescue me). It also fostered a lot of really bad writing, and went places that were sometimes twisted and just not right.
Then I discovered Orson Scott Card's Hatrack River website and its "role-playing, story-telling" boards. I found people that were writing in Card's version of 1830s American (the setting for his Alvin Maker series), and I joined out of curiosity more than anything else. The people I met there from around 1998 through 2001 or so (when I stopped writing there for personal reasons) were amazing writers. Some of them, such as Mindy Klasky have moved on to bigger and better things as you can see from her website.
For a while, I stopped writing this kind of thing all together, however, this week, I changed things a bit. As many of you know, I'm a fan of a local band that is a little different in that it plays rennaissance rock and roll. Over the past few months, I've become active on their website boards, and this week, I started, on a whim, a fan fiction thread. It has taken off, and everyone has been having a ball. It feels good to be creative in an open forum again, but is it really writing, or am I playing around? That, my friends, is the question!
New Writer's Weekly Question #4:
Is fan-fiction a genre that is an acceptable form of expression, or is it just a version of finger-painting for adults? Explain.
Also:
Have you ever or do you currently write fan-fiction? If you yes for either question, why did you choose to do it, and what sort of benefit did you gain from this experience?
Extra Credit:
If you write fan-fiction, please leave a link either in your post or in the comments. Please link to something that's not R or X-rated, as this is a "family show."
How to Answer the Writer's Weekly Question:
1. Post the answer in your journal or in my comments.
2. Leave a link to your journal answer, so all can enjoy it.
Anyone can participate in this meme. I like to hear what even non-writers have to say about the creative process.
I will respond on Tuesday night!
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Here you go. My full answer, subject to the fact that I got sleepy and ran out of steam:
http://outmavarin.blogspot.com/2007/06/wwq-after-fanfic.htm l
Karen -
I'll answer this properly and then leave a link, but right off the bat I just want to tell you I couldn't make myself do that writing prompt, for a couple of reasons. The main one is that I pretty much deliberately left fanfic behind a decade ago; it just felt kind of wrong for me to do that now. The other is that I generally avoid fiction writing prompts of any sort. I feel that with all the productive fiction writing I should be doing (and am not doing enough), the last thing I need is to take on an obligation to write fiction that doesn't add to my body of work with characters of my own devising. More on this anon. Sorry to let you down! -- Karen
6/18/07 4:05 PM
I played. Over here: http://shellyswritestuff.blog
It's a fun meme. :)