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Post by Diclonius' Lilium on Mar 27, 2008 20:38:37 GMT -5
How do you go about it?
Do you write it immediately after watching it? Do you write it long after watching it?
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Post by LadyRiona on Mar 27, 2008 22:47:07 GMT -5
I write it generally like any other story. Sure, if I'm writing in a fandom for the first time, it helps to have just recently watched the show (or reading the book, playing the game, whatever the case may be). But generally, I'm good at absorbing characters and their traits and mannerisms, so I can apply a plot to them and go.
But with everything I write, not just fanfiction, I listen to music that fits the scene. If it's a romance story, then I have some sappy love song going. If it's a really edgy scene, I have some soundtrack music from a suspenseful show playing. Comedic? Something amusing. So pretty much I have a soundtrack going. That really helps me better than watching the show, plotwise.
But anyway. The timeframe doesn't really matter. I started a fanfic for a show I like to watch about three, four days after the episode aired. I waited for the next episode so I could determine a little of the fic's plot on the current goings-on, even though the fic is sometime in the future.
It all depends on how the bunnies are jumping.
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Post by Meluivan Indil on Mar 29, 2008 6:06:06 GMT -5
I usually prefer to watch the show or movie several times before I take on a fanfic story and I tend to watch it again between chapters sometimes. I like to get characteristics down pat for my characters before I try to write them, plus I try to stay canon as much as possible, so events sometimes need to be gone over a few times.
For instance I'm writing a fanfic right now on a tv show but the events in my fanfic draw back on episodes from three different seasons of the show, so I've been rewatching lots of episodes from it.
As far as music goes if everything is quiet in the house I don't need it but if not I have one particular playlist that I listen to that consists of songs that remind me of the show and that I know by heart. That way the music drowns out distracting noises but won't distract me from my writing either.
M.
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Post by Incarn on Aug 31, 2008 15:41:07 GMT -5
Generally, if I want to write an adventure story more than two chapters long, I will go over points I'm not sure about and wait for big plots to be revealed so I don't write the wrong stuff (like Itachi's reasons for killing his clan in Naruto).
For my current adventure fanfic (which I'm hoping will live to see the days of being an epic length), I'm basically studying several points introduced into the Naruto manga, which includes stuff that isn't even in the manga - such as the folklore of the Three Imperial Regalia of Japan.
That's just three legendary items (a sword, a mirror, and a jewel or necklace of jewels) that represent three basic positive traits to have. Kishimoto has used the sword and the mirror so far, and I'm predicting that a jewel or necklace of jewels will be appearing in some sort of attack or defence soon.
I'm basically researching Naruto. xD
For now, I'm just plotting out all the major and minor events in a timeline.
As for music; well, I listen to music all the time. No, really. If my .mp3 player didn't run out of battery power, I'd be listening to it 24/7. I love music. I tend to listen to fight-music used in video games and TV show when I'm writing a battle scene, and so on and so on. It just gets me in the mood to write the emotions of the scene better.
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Post by nephlitesgirl on Sept 23, 2008 14:10:40 GMT -5
How do you go about it? Do you write it immediately after watching it? Do you write it long after watching it? I've done both of these. The Sailor Moon ones were written years after I watched the show,and after I rewatched the first Magic Knight Rayearth season,I started working on the fic. |
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Post by Diclonius' Lilium on Oct 3, 2008 23:32:22 GMT -5
Thanks. Now I'm wondering what fanfiction really means.
In some fandoms, people use an idea introduced by a book (Battle Royale for example) and make a story that uses the idea (and mentions the source in context as part of the universe.) I'm not sure if that makes it fanfiction (as it doesn't use the actual characters, but it references the events of the previous "Program"[to use BR terminology]) or original fiction.
What do you think of this... strange fiction?
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Post by Ark on Nov 16, 2008 23:29:41 GMT -5
Fanfiction is often the starting point for many fiction writers for two reasons: One, you don't have to be able to develop characters. You just use pre-established ones, and two, a similar situation with scene. However, it happens to have this trend of breeding a few good writers amongst the hordes of terrible, terrible Mary Sue spewing failbags that flood fanfiction.net
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