Fannish Friday: Unfinished Business

[lirazel]

Do you have any creative endeavor (fic, art, meta, vids, whatever) that you've been nominally working on for at least a year or two but you've never been able to actually finish?

I'm especially interested if it's something from an older fandom that you've mostly moved on from now...something that feels like Unfinished Business and that you truly want to finish and hope that you will sometime.

Or maybe there's a particular aspect of an old fandom's canon that you really wanted to explore (a character, a theme, whatever), that you haven't ever really dug into, but it lives in your mind, and you know you still want to.



For me, it's Life with Derek (do not laugh! Okay, you can laugh, but only if it's in a fond way!). I need to hash out Derek/Casey in fic. I need to do it. I have at least two fics sitting on my harddrive that I started but never finished. I want to finish them! But I just never have! And yet, I feel that someday I will.

Comments

[seekingferret]

There's lots, but one glaring one is an Infinite Jest fic I started writing ages ago in the form of a wikipedia article, which I pull out every year or two and try to continue, but every time I pull it out I've forgotten half of what I was trying to do the last time, and I've particularly forgotten what all the jokes meant. Unfortunately I probably need to reread Infinite Jest to finish it, and the book is over a thousand pages long. :P

It was about an event alluded to in a footnote in the book called the MIT Language Riots of 1996, which was itself a reference to a conversation in Don DeLillo's Ratner's Star, and I think using a Wikipedia article to talk about something so complicatedly intertextual was a really great idea, but it's unsurprisingly been tricky to pull off. But maybe someday!

[lirazel]

I am absolutely delighted by this answer! I will probably never read Infnite Jest so I can probably never enjoy this fic when you finish it, but I will be happy knowing you're working on it!

and I think using a Wikipedia article to talk about something so complicatedly intertextual was a really great idea

AGREED.

Maybe you'll figure it out someday! I wish you luck in working on it!

[ceciliaj]

I would like to read this fic!!