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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?

That's sitting in my mailbox until I can get to it. I read the first three paragraphs.

And Sophia Jirafe just posted something interesting. Neat, although I'm not sure I buy it, but the writing is good.

That dystopific was certainly interesting-- it was well-written, if in a style I don't generally fall over in palpitations for. And if I squint I buy the Xander-dead backstory.