This is interesting!! I so rarely consider formal writing solutions outside of like, trial and error via intuition / what Feels Right lol.
i do sincerely believe the correct answer for most writing questions is “go read a novel that does it well & think about it really hard,” and there’s no real shortcut around that
100%!! This is my favorite way to troubleshoot something, or at least if I'm trying to get the ball-rolling with a particular kind of flavor/theme/situation, looking for an example of it that I've enjoyed and that I can absorb through osmosis and distill is very handy.
I *love* trios, coughcough none speaks, none heeds and coughcough this FFXVI fic I've been working on is also fairly trio-centric. There's so much more room for play!
This might be a bizarre question, but when you're considering "audience" do you include yourself in that? Like, with fanfic I have a very singular expectation for any potential readers and I place myself at the helm of that crowd (I want to "wow!" myself), but aside from that I'm so interested in leaning into whatever niche I'm curious about, even if I'm like potentially betraying what a reader might expect / hope will happen? Might be irrelevant because fanfic is so self-indulgent by nature, right, and I assume you're describing putting yourself in the reader's mindset as the tool... Idk! I had thoughts recently about whether origfic and fanfic advice ever diverge from each other? This is probably a very obvious "yes" in only some ways haha. Where was I going with this.
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Date: 2024-11-04 03:07 am (UTC)i do sincerely believe the correct answer for most writing questions is “go read a novel that does it well & think about it really hard,” and there’s no real shortcut around that
100%!! This is my favorite way to troubleshoot something, or at least if I'm trying to get the ball-rolling with a particular kind of flavor/theme/situation, looking for an example of it that I've enjoyed and that I can absorb through osmosis and distill is very handy.
I *love* trios, coughcough none speaks, none heeds and coughcough this FFXVI fic I've been working on is also fairly trio-centric. There's so much more room for play!
This might be a bizarre question, but when you're considering "audience" do you include yourself in that? Like, with fanfic I have a very singular expectation for any potential readers and I place myself at the helm of that crowd (I want to "wow!" myself), but aside from that I'm so interested in leaning into whatever niche I'm curious about, even if I'm like potentially betraying what a reader might expect / hope will happen? Might be irrelevant because fanfic is so self-indulgent by nature, right, and I assume you're describing putting yourself in the reader's mindset as the tool... Idk! I had thoughts recently about whether origfic and fanfic advice ever diverge from each other? This is probably a very obvious "yes" in only some ways haha. Where was I going with this.
Tl;dr fun post, thank yeh!