Fannish Friday: talking yourself into writing things

[lirazel]

I'm working on my Hurt/Comfort Exchange signup and basing it on last year's signup. I was reading through my CQL prompts and found this:

Canon divergence where Wangxian have an arranged marriage and live at Lotus Pier. Madam Yu hurts WWX in some way (physically or emotionally) and LWJ becomes very protective of his husband and confronts her.

This is hilarious, because I ended up writing that fic myself late last year and it was very successful. Apparently, I just got tired of waiting for someone else to write it for me!

And then I was reading my requests for Kaz/Inej fic...and the fic I ended up writing for that very exchange was very, very similar to my requests/prompts! It just so happens that someone else wanted it too!


So tell me about a fanwork you created because you got tired of waiting for someone else to create it. Sometimes if you want something done right (or at all!), you've got to do it yourself! I'm not talking about things you get excited to create or that sneak up on you, but something you have hoped against hope that someone else will do it...and finally you throw your hands up in the air and do it yourself!

Comments

[rekishi]

I think....pretty much everything I write falls in some way into that catergory?

I just....sit on my hands for a while and then do it? Mostly because my tastes run towards long and plotty with a side of relationship and that's not always the main thing in any given fandom.

For example, when I was writing Bard/Thranduil for The Hobbit, the tendency was basically towards "oh woe is me the Elvenking whose mortal partner will die very soon and I will never be happy oh woe is me" when....you know, the man has been married (whether arranged or not, he has at least one child from that marriage) and had his wife die and also the mortal in question has another 30+ year if life ahead of him and.... I was so fed up at some point with the whole thing that I wrote myself a few hundred thousand words about lives well lived and even with the knowledge of grief in the future making the most of the present and what is with you *now* rather than in some nebulous future. (This had the nice side effect that I could write myself a relationship between adults, which was also rare in that fandom which skewed surprisingly young for the canon.)

Let's also not forget how I talked myself into writing Tatort fic, because of Reasons. And may have talked myself into writing a soul bond (one of my most hated tropes) next. Also possibly a fic featuring a sex club, though I probably will not write that one because I lack the delicateness to pull that off in a way that won't annoy people visiting sex clubs.

[shipperslist]

For me, the thing I've grown tired of waiting have been stuff like ringtones or cover art and I've never gotten any of them. I would make them myself if I could but I can't, so. I think I'm done with exchanges now (reverse bangs are okay because I can offer something but I don't have to sit back and hope someone picks me).

But to answer your question: I have written one of my own prompts: Leave The Cold Outside, a story of an abused omega (Clint) who finds a home with a trustworthy alpha (Phil).

[adriennefae]

I do often end up writing my own ideas that I've put in exchange letters. A lot of my gen prompts in exchanges are more general thoughts on aspects of characters or relationships that I like or parts of canon I'd like to see explored rather than specific story ideas, so it makes sense that I'd also want to incorporate those things into my own fic. Things like "did Saru and prime Georgiou keep in touch between his leaving Kaminar and joining the Shenzhou" and "what is it like from Zora's perspective as she's evolving" and "what was Detmer talking about at Airiam's funeral about Airiam helping her adjust" and "what were the Discovery bridge crew doing for all of season 1???" have all been things I've ended up writing about after requesting them for a while.

[dirty_diana]

At this point most of my non-exchange works are this! I generally put every idea I have down in my letters, which means like 50-100 of them will go unwritten. So I prompt and prompt and finally have thought about a thing so much that I just take a stab at it myself. The big one last year was probably the my Musketeers rareship always-a-girl fic.

[theseatheseatheopensea]

something you have hoped against hope that someone else will do it...and finally you throw your hands up in the air and do it yourself!

I feel like this about everything I've written for bethefirst!

[sunshine304]

I haven't yet written it, but I've got one prompt up on the kinkmeme that I'll likely end up wirting myself if no.one else beats me to it. XD It's just very annoyingly detailed in my head and I even wrote down the first scene because it wouldn't shut up. But on the other hand, I don't have time for this and I also have several WIPs going already that i first want to finish.

Other than that I as of yet don't feel the need to fulfill any of my other prompts. That migth change in the future, who knows. XD