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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Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
Emily - Oct 29, 2002 11:58:54 am PST #684 of 10000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Fay - Oct 29, 2002 12:11:11 pm PST #685 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
t Not-entirely-OT
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.
t /tangent
Fay - Oct 29, 2002 12:25:56 pm PST #686 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
P.M. Marc - Oct 29, 2002 12:46:53 pm PST #687 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
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.
erikaj - Oct 29, 2002 1:17:43 pm PST #688 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!
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.
Connie Neil - Oct 29, 2002 1:27:26 pm PST #689 of 10000
brillig
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?
Consuela - Oct 29, 2002 1:34:01 pm PST #690 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Sounds like Rio's friend is less interested in talking to ficcers than he is in finding fic about old shows.
Consuela - Oct 29, 2002 10:09:01 pm PST #691 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
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?
Dana - Oct 30, 2002 7:02:16 am PST #692 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
That's sitting in my mailbox until I can get to it. I read the first three paragraphs.
Consuela - Oct 31, 2002 10:28:10 pm PST #693 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
And Sophia Jirafe just posted something interesting. Neat, although I'm not sure I buy it, but the writing is good.