Random fic musings

[nineveh_uk]

Fanfiction doesn’t have to be practice for ‘professional’ writing in order to be of worth. On the other hand, thinking of it as such can help justify having spent the evening writing 1200 words of Hilary/Bunter when you really ought to be doing something else.

It is not in fact easier to write badfic, or even spoof-fic, than it is to try to produce something good. It is easier to write short excerpts of almost anything. No doubt if I tried to sustain badfic over a thousand words that would present its own challenges. Fantasy!Bunter is at least proving not too grim so far. Mind you, he still has most of his clothes on.

I have not been managing to write the Wimsey/Potterverse crossover, but I have at least been thinking about it and it is developing reasonably well. I now have the “they meet at a party” scene so beloved of Potterfic (not least me. The percentage of my Potterfic involving parties is embarrassingly high), and a bit of jokey RPF has turned into plot. It is always pleasing when a random idea becomes thematic. I still need to work on the purpose of the Corsican bandits, though.

Comments

[lyras.livejournal.com]

This post is pretty apposite considering that, in one of the extremely rare occasions on which I like RL people to my account, I offered to show my sister my LJ today with the explanation that the fanfic was "for practice".

It is easier to write short excerpts of almost anything.

*sigh*

So, um, who met at a party?

[custardpringle.livejournal.com]

Man, I am kind of REALLY INTERESTED to see your Wimsey/Potterfic! I didn't realize you were writing any.

(Now I feel all pressured to work on mine, too, and keep my end up or something.)

[executrix.livejournal.com]

Are you implying that Bunter becomes grim once his kit is off?

My complete ignorance about what is going to happen in S2 of Downton Abbey has not stopped me from speculating about High Life Above and Below Stairs involving LPW and Bunter Apres-Guerre.

ION, I have acquired the Other Source I needed for That Fic I'm Dropping Hints About.

[gramarye1971]

*wryface* I try to tell myself that doing the research for fanfiction is practising the skills I use for nonfanfiction research. It would be easier to justify if I didn't use it as an excuse to bang out about 3000 words of fic on 16th-century Switzerland that has absolutely no relation to anything else I'm researching for RL work at the moment.

*hopes for fantasy!Bunter to continue to disrobe without becoming grim!*