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ponderosa121? tmelange?) was talking about pieces of fic that are so good that they pull you into a fandom and make you want to seek out everything else for that fandom, but then are so complete and so well-written that by the time you finish reading you are done with that fandom, because that fic was the be all and end all for that pairing/show/movie and is so beautiful that you don't want to ruin it with anything else.
Which is a beautiful, thoughtful sentiment, and the example given was Resonant's Higher Learning, which is an excellent example. And very true.
But that (combined withmisskittie79's discussion of my 'voice' and my writing tendencies) made me think about my writing, specifically why I fuss and angst and kill myself with stress over short stories of *fanfiction*. And I think part of it is that for some reason I never think I'm going to write any more than one story for any one particular fandom, so with each story I feel all this pressure to say everything I want to say, and to make it close to perfect.
Not that my fanfic has ever reach the levels of something like Higher Learning, I just mean my brain for some reason must be aspiring to something like that. Nevermind that I usually end up writing several stories for a fandom and not just one. This is probably also why most of my porn is all symbolic and meaningful instead of just some sexin'.
These are things I must work on, I suppose. That's all. Strange thinky thoughts over for now. Back to boysinskirts.
ponderosa121? tmelange?) was talking about pieces of fic that are so good that they pull you into a fandom and make you want to seek out everything else for that fandom, but then are so complete and so well-written that by the time you finish reading you are done with that fandom, because that fic was the be all and end all for that pairing/show/movie and is so beautiful that you don't want to ruin it with anything else. Which is a beautiful, thoughtful sentiment, and the example given was Resonant's Higher Learning, which is an excellent example. And very true.
But that (combined with
misskittie79's discussion of my 'voice' and my writing tendencies) made me think about my writing, specifically why I fuss and angst and kill myself with stress over short stories of *fanfiction*. And I think part of it is that for some reason I never think I'm going to write any more than one story for any one particular fandom, so with each story I feel all this pressure to say everything I want to say, and to make it close to perfect. Not that my fanfic has ever reach the levels of something like Higher Learning, I just mean my brain for some reason must be aspiring to something like that. Nevermind that I usually end up writing several stories for a fandom and not just one. This is probably also why most of my porn is all symbolic and meaningful instead of just some sexin'.
These are things I must work on, I suppose. That's all. Strange thinky thoughts over for now. Back to boysinskirts.
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I think the awesome thing about fanfiction is that nothing can ruin anything else. For instance, I recently read two fabulous Supernatural stories, In nomine patris and Second glance, one directly after the other, which show the character of John Winchester in two completely different, almost mutually exclusive lights, and they both felt true and real and were emotionally powerful. Neither one spoiled the other.
Having said that, perhaps a smaller, closed canon, and a small fandom is the key to what you say? I haven't read Higher Learning; I think it's for the Breakfast Club? Which I haven't even seen. The only fic I can think of that means something like what you say to me is Dorinda's The Buried Treasure Racket, which is so astoundingly good and perfect for the canon that I can't imagine anything better. It filled me up for The Sting, but that's not to say that I wouldn't snack on anything else that came my way, especially for fear of ruining TBTR. I guess what I'm trying to say is that IMO no one fic can say everything there is to say about a fandom, even a small one.
I got the movie Reservoir Dogs out of my system when I wrote Free Agent Orange; I said everything I needed to say about the movie in that. But I am still very interested in reading what other people have to say. I did kill myself over that story, so I understand what you're saying there though. But don't denigrate it! There's nothing wrong with aspiring to excellence; and fanfiction is never "just" fanfiction :-D
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That's why the recent kink challenge was fun. I only told one story, and I didn't drive myself up the wall. In my mind, it was an "extra" fic and didn't have to be perfect.
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Though in the bigger fandoms there are definitely stories that I would show to people as the first story they ought to read for that show or whatever. (Smallville/The_Spike I'm looking at you...)
Higher Learning is a pairing that would never have occurred to me and that story made it canon as far as I'm concerned. Completely and totally sold it and made it real. Sort of like, oddly enough,
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Squishing ten stories into one sounds about right.
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I guess I have enough of an ego that I believe that I have several things to say and even when intimidated by other writers (stares in your direction), I just keep plodding along.
The bottomline is, if you stop writing due South because you finished the uniform kink fic, I'm going to hunt you down and beat you with a lanyard.
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Like really. Like now I need Ray in the leather, with the gun, wearing heels.
And I don't even know how to *begin* to explain that in fic form.
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He's too tall for high heels
Though I had visions of Fraser getting turned on by the smell of his leather coat the other day . . . cos "leather" was an F/K porn battle prompt.
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bonkersbonkersbonkers
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:P
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Ah well.