I love being able to test-run things in Live Journal, and I love writing with partners. I love improvs and AIM-riffing, though I haven't been in AIM much lately.

Like Dana said, Rio, there are places where you can find older shows kept alive via fic. I know there was a Virtual Season 4 of Millennium underway. There's lots of X-Files fic being written now but set in earlier seasons (pre-baby). And, of course, lots of stuff is still being written about dueSouth and The Sentinel and LFN despite the fact they were all cancelled a while back.

I've even heard of Bonanza fic still being written. *g*

And I posted a little snippet of Robin of Sherwood fic this summer, in response to an LJ challenge. That show died in, what, 1985?

I love improvs and AIM-riffing, though I haven't been in AIM much lately.

Speaking of which, will you be around tonight? I might be looking for someone to riff with -- even if we do have disparate fandoms.

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Re: learning the process of writing/matters ficcish outwith the community of fanfic - as y'all may know, I'm presently training as a Primary Teacher. It is notable that much of what we're looking at wrt creative writing involves using other pieces of writing as a springboard -e.g. retelling The 3 Little Pigs from the wolf pov, or in a different medium, that kind of thing. Today one of the things we touched upon was using paintings as an inspiration for writing - whether prose of poetry - and this reminded me of a project a few years ago at London's National Gallery, where a poet (I forget whom, I'm afraid) wrote poems about the paintings. (the only one I remember off the top of my head was Uccello's St George and the Dragon pic.) Granted fanfic is generally derived from something with a more extended narrative, be it TV or fiction or what have you, but it's still a similar process that's going on, no?

....but this isn't quite Rio's mate's point.

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Another Blake's 7 link, looking at fandom & fans

Speaking of which, will you be around tonight? I might be looking for someone to riff with -- even if we do have disparate fandoms.

I should be, although I'll be finishing a Firefly transcription.

I know I've learned a lot, from even my sad and embryonic efforts.And they make better writing games than "make up a story about these objects," or something.

I burned my early notebooks of Star Wars fic. I've still got the stories, but I just couldn't bear to look at the first drafts any longer.

If we invite Rio's friend, we might mess up his research. Would this be one of those things best served by a Yahoo Group or something?

Sounds like Rio's friend is less interested in talking to ficcers than he is in finding fic about old shows.

Check this out: a gorgeous story by Shaye. Not a happy one, mind you. But a gorgeously-written one.

And send her email if you like it, do?