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Fannish Friday: Inspiration Edition
Dec. 9th, 2022 09:13 amInspired 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.
