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Fannish Friday: Inspiration Edition
Inspired by my weird productivity streak (I am working on another CQL fic!), here are some discussion questions for the fannish creators among you (which is most of you!).
+ What's your most productive fandom? What fandom have you written the most words/fics or made the most graphic/icons or whatever for?
+ Is there a particular fandom where it's always been easy to produce lots of art and/or meta? One where the inspiration just kept bubbling up?
Or even:
+ Is there a fandom you just keep coming back to over the years even as other come and go?
For me, inspiration has never come as easily as it did when I was writing Infinite fic. I think it was the combination of a steady stream of new "canon" content that it was fairly manageable to keep up-to-date on and the fact that I had a small but wonderful group of people who were just as unhinged about them as I was. We were bouncing off of each other in a very particular way that was very different than how, say, my corner of Spuffy fandom bounced off of each other. (I can't articulate what the difference was--I need to think about it more.)
The words just kept coming! I wrote multiple 100k+ novels! (And I posted them as I was writing them and it was never a problem! I never got behind!) I wrote all kinds of one-shots! I wrote a bunch of different ships! I wrote from so many different perspectives! (I think I've written from the POV of every member? Except, weirdly, maybe Dongwoo?) I have never been so productive as a writer in my entire life as I was in Kpop fandom.
This phase lasted about 2-3 years, and I'm sure it had as much to do with the phase of my life I was in (boring office job) as anything else, but I've never been able to replicate that even in fandoms like BtVS or CQl where I am fairly prolific. I've also never had any experience like that with my original writing. So I think wistfully of that time when writing was so easy and the inspiration never seemed to dry up. Who knows if I'll ever feel that again.
+ What's your most productive fandom? What fandom have you written the most words/fics or made the most graphic/icons or whatever for?
+ Is there a particular fandom where it's always been easy to produce lots of art and/or meta? One where the inspiration just kept bubbling up?
Or even:
+ Is there a fandom you just keep coming back to over the years even as other come and go?
For me, inspiration has never come as easily as it did when I was writing Infinite fic. I think it was the combination of a steady stream of new "canon" content that it was fairly manageable to keep up-to-date on and the fact that I had a small but wonderful group of people who were just as unhinged about them as I was. We were bouncing off of each other in a very particular way that was very different than how, say, my corner of Spuffy fandom bounced off of each other. (I can't articulate what the difference was--I need to think about it more.)
The words just kept coming! I wrote multiple 100k+ novels! (And I posted them as I was writing them and it was never a problem! I never got behind!) I wrote all kinds of one-shots! I wrote a bunch of different ships! I wrote from so many different perspectives! (I think I've written from the POV of every member? Except, weirdly, maybe Dongwoo?) I have never been so productive as a writer in my entire life as I was in Kpop fandom.
This phase lasted about 2-3 years, and I'm sure it had as much to do with the phase of my life I was in (boring office job) as anything else, but I've never been able to replicate that even in fandoms like BtVS or CQl where I am fairly prolific. I've also never had any experience like that with my original writing. So I think wistfully of that time when writing was so easy and the inspiration never seemed to dry up. Who knows if I'll ever feel that again.