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the_rckThursday, LunarGeography and I went over to Matt's to watch anime and got to meet the object of Matt's current crush. (Matt objects rather strenuously to the label "crush" and seems to use it in a rather different sense than either LunarGeography or I do. For her, there's a connotation of obsession. For me, there's a connotation of hopelessness. For him, it implies a passing fancy, nothing long term or powerful.) We didn't really end up watching much.
I got started with the serious LARP writing while I was traveling to Knoxville. I got about 90% of the background written up and put together skeletal character sheets (names, ages, nationality, all the fiddly bits except the statistics) and spent some more time poking at the messy stew of not quite plots that I had in my head, trying to get as much as possible down on paper.
I was a little frustrated at not being able to bounce details off of LunarGeography, but she wants to play in the silly thing eventually, so I refrained. I did ask her opinion on some generalities, though, and bombard her with details about the era, the culture, the religion and ask her opinion about how to make players understand how all of that fits together to shape the characters they'll be playing.
During our time in the car, she and I discussed an idea for a Ruroni Kenshin fanfic that had occurred to me. I'd been rewatching the series with Scott and so had it fairly firmly in my mind. She'd arrived to pick me up while Scott and I were watching the last couple of episodes of combat in the Kyoto arc, and my mind started to play with ideas. What would happen if that battle turned out differently? Why might it turn out differently?
And now, god help me, I'm writing it. I don't know how it will turn out, but I'm 18 pages in. There are parts of it that I don't think I can write properly, and I've asked LunarGeography if she'll try them. I'm not sure how fully I've sucked her into the madness at this point, but I'm going to make a definite try at doing so. If I ever get pieces of this thing to the point where I'm willing to let people see them, I'll let you all know. Some of you might enjoy it.
This really astonishes me because I've always felt kind of icky about the idea of writing fanfic. I don't like the idea of using something that belongs to somebody else. It's theirs after all not mine. But I've mellowed over the years and have started looking at the question from perspectives other than the legal. Taking away potential earnings from the owner of a creative property is wrong, no question. Other things start to slip into a grayer area. Basically, I'm more willing to accept fic based on tv shows or movies. Based on a single authors books, no. That's still very much too personal for me. An author may invite people to visit by publishing, but… Writing's a personal exercise, a journey into one's own mind.
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I got started with the serious LARP writing while I was traveling to Knoxville. I got about 90% of the background written up and put together skeletal character sheets (names, ages, nationality, all the fiddly bits except the statistics) and spent some more time poking at the messy stew of not quite plots that I had in my head, trying to get as much as possible down on paper.
I was a little frustrated at not being able to bounce details off of LunarGeography, but she wants to play in the silly thing eventually, so I refrained. I did ask her opinion on some generalities, though, and bombard her with details about the era, the culture, the religion and ask her opinion about how to make players understand how all of that fits together to shape the characters they'll be playing.
During our time in the car, she and I discussed an idea for a Ruroni Kenshin fanfic that had occurred to me. I'd been rewatching the series with Scott and so had it fairly firmly in my mind. She'd arrived to pick me up while Scott and I were watching the last couple of episodes of combat in the Kyoto arc, and my mind started to play with ideas. What would happen if that battle turned out differently? Why might it turn out differently?
And now, god help me, I'm writing it. I don't know how it will turn out, but I'm 18 pages in. There are parts of it that I don't think I can write properly, and I've asked LunarGeography if she'll try them. I'm not sure how fully I've sucked her into the madness at this point, but I'm going to make a definite try at doing so. If I ever get pieces of this thing to the point where I'm willing to let people see them, I'll let you all know. Some of you might enjoy it.
This really astonishes me because I've always felt kind of icky about the idea of writing fanfic. I don't like the idea of using something that belongs to somebody else. It's theirs after all not mine. But I've mellowed over the years and have started looking at the question from perspectives other than the legal. Taking away potential earnings from the owner of a creative property is wrong, no question. Other things start to slip into a grayer area. Basically, I'm more willing to accept fic based on tv shows or movies. Based on a single authors books, no. That's still very much too personal for me. An author may invite people to visit by publishing, but… Writing's a personal exercise, a journey into one's own mind.
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fanfic
Date: 2002-07-05 05:45 pm (UTC)It's good to hear that you're making progress on the LARP. Scott had mentioned that you were starting to feel the deadline pressure building.
Re: fanfic
Date: 2002-07-06 10:45 am (UTC)I think I'll have the characters done in about another week and a half. I've had a couple of nights when I've managed two characters, and I hope to keep that up. I'm just remembering now that, during my undergraduate days, I did my best writing after midnight. Those hours don't suit me as well now that I'm older, but...