Yes, I’ve enjoyed interaction on DW this past month when – first thanks to st_aurafina’s friending meme, then thanks to Snowflake – I’ve got to add new people, to see varying contents on my Reading feed, and even to talk more to those with whom I feel I share something essential in common. Still, I feel it’s a pity that our fanworks are primarily not right here on our journals or on DW communities in the way they used to be on our LJ accounts and on LJ communities. Our fanworks are obviously the core of our participation in fandom, and I’d like to see more discussion on them. Now it’s another step to go to AO3, and any potential discussion there doesn’t come to the attention of our DW friends.
Now I’ve been intending to take the step and comment on your gorgeous bookbinding fanwork.
I really hope you can soon get started with writing that fic. I can’t help thinking that you have it all figured out quite fully enough. Some details are bound to change in any case during the writing process. But, of course, you know best what is the right approach for you.
I haven’t got a Tumblr account either. (It wouldn’t be necessary for submitting a fic to that fest.) Oh yes, Reddit… Thank you for reminding me. But I’m not sure that seeing Wolfstar fans would make me more inspired to write my stories (story).
My first fic didn’t actually start as a short story but as a first installment of Chapter One for a novel-length story , because (back then I’d read only one short Chapter One for a Harry’s-sixth-year fic, and) that’s what I thought fanfic was supposed to be – like JKR’s novels. I just boldly published it, and for a long time I didn’t know more than my Remus knew at any point what was going to happen next, but it all miraculously worked out.
And I’ve thought I’m some kind of a perfectionist, too – a different one from you, obviously! I’ve never written outlines (except once a very rough list of issues I needed to wrap up in the final chapters of the novel) or character charts. I just write slowly (although now less slowly than fifteen years ago) and polish my text painstakingly, but hardly ever make big changes after completing a scene.
Oh, I’d never write anything like those dislikes you mention. And my fic is all rather sad, angsty and/ or bittersweet. Perhaps you’d like to have a look at the chronologically first piece (so far, and with the exception of some memories included in the novel) of the story, a 2800-word Sirius-pov fic, written last February. A Stranded Wizard If Ever There Was One is about Sirius running away from home, and there’s implied reference to childhood sexual abuse. Or you could choose anything else on my AO3.
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Date: 2020-01-24 09:55 pm (UTC)Now I’ve been intending to take the step and comment on your gorgeous bookbinding fanwork.
I really hope you can soon get started with writing that fic. I can’t help thinking that you have it all figured out quite fully enough. Some details are bound to change in any case during the writing process. But, of course, you know best what is the right approach for you.
I haven’t got a Tumblr account either. (It wouldn’t be necessary for submitting a fic to that fest.) Oh yes, Reddit… Thank you for reminding me. But I’m not sure that seeing Wolfstar fans would make me more inspired to write my stories (story).
My first fic didn’t actually start as a short story but as a first installment of Chapter One for a novel-length story , because (back then I’d read only one short Chapter One for a Harry’s-sixth-year fic, and) that’s what I thought fanfic was supposed to be – like JKR’s novels. I just boldly published it, and for a long time I didn’t know more than my Remus knew at any point what was going to happen next, but it all miraculously worked out.
And I’ve thought I’m some kind of a perfectionist, too – a different one from you, obviously! I’ve never written outlines (except once a very rough list of issues I needed to wrap up in the final chapters of the novel) or character charts. I just write slowly (although now less slowly than fifteen years ago) and polish my text painstakingly, but hardly ever make big changes after completing a scene.
Oh, I’d never write anything like those dislikes you mention. And my fic is all rather sad, angsty and/ or bittersweet. Perhaps you’d like to have a look at the chronologically first piece (so far, and with the exception of some memories included in the novel) of the story, a 2800-word Sirius-pov fic, written last February. A Stranded Wizard If Ever There Was One is about Sirius running away from home, and there’s implied reference to childhood sexual abuse. Or you could choose anything else on my AO3.