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writing, or not
Jun. 26th, 2007 12:15 pmEons ago, in another lifetime, I used to write fanfic. ;)
I put in a smiley face because I know that some of you probably think of me as a fanfic writer foremost, among the first few phrases you'd use to define me; whereas others will probably be more like "you WHAT?!" And it probably relates to when you met me, of course. But that's not the point of this post.
It's interesting to look back and see how consumed I was by fandom and fanfic for a while, and how abruptly that obsession seemed to die off. And no, it wasn't because of my entering the parenting world, although that probably hastened it along. But that's not the point of this post either.
The other day, out of the blue, I found myself thinking about a fanfic that I had conceived and even started to sketch out but never actually wrote. I find myself coming back to that story and those characters in my head very frequently. It's a story set in the Buffyverse, but not involving many (any?) of the actual characters from BTVS. Yet, it relies heavily on the world-building of BTVS: the concept of the slayer, the watcher, Watcher's Council, and so forth.
I keep coming back to it in my mind, trying to find a way to make it work as a story without relying on the Buffyverse. I feel like if I try to craft a whole new setting for it, it's going to feel impossibly derivative, like people will read it and go "geez, you are SO ripping off Joss." But I don't want to write it as fanfic either. That seems kind of pointless. Are people even still reading, let alone writing, Buffyverse fanfic any more? I guess they probably are, but I feel so removed from that world, it might as well not even exist from my perspective.
The whole debate is moot anyway since I never have time to write. But I can still think about it, can't I?
I put in a smiley face because I know that some of you probably think of me as a fanfic writer foremost, among the first few phrases you'd use to define me; whereas others will probably be more like "you WHAT?!" And it probably relates to when you met me, of course. But that's not the point of this post.
It's interesting to look back and see how consumed I was by fandom and fanfic for a while, and how abruptly that obsession seemed to die off. And no, it wasn't because of my entering the parenting world, although that probably hastened it along. But that's not the point of this post either.
The other day, out of the blue, I found myself thinking about a fanfic that I had conceived and even started to sketch out but never actually wrote. I find myself coming back to that story and those characters in my head very frequently. It's a story set in the Buffyverse, but not involving many (any?) of the actual characters from BTVS. Yet, it relies heavily on the world-building of BTVS: the concept of the slayer, the watcher, Watcher's Council, and so forth.
I keep coming back to it in my mind, trying to find a way to make it work as a story without relying on the Buffyverse. I feel like if I try to craft a whole new setting for it, it's going to feel impossibly derivative, like people will read it and go "geez, you are SO ripping off Joss." But I don't want to write it as fanfic either. That seems kind of pointless. Are people even still reading, let alone writing, Buffyverse fanfic any more? I guess they probably are, but I feel so removed from that world, it might as well not even exist from my perspective.
The whole debate is moot anyway since I never have time to write. But I can still think about it, can't I?
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