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icarusWelcome to the Fanfiction Chop Shop, where fanfics are taken apart and turned into "real" fiction for the sake of creative writing instructors.
Here we demonstrate that the fanfic author can write, so that said professor will allow a certain fanfic author (namely, me) to include Nanowrimo as part of the creative writing class in the fall.
Cool, huh?
Here's the trick: It can't even look like fanfiction by the time I'm done with it. In fact, he's even iffy about genre fiction, but willing to observe a genre fic that has strong characterization and a plot that doesn't hinge on the cool sci-fi/magical shit.
This means the story I slice apart and buff a little (or a lot) needs to demonstrate:
1) I can write plot, a discernable story arc
2) I can write believable characters (trickier than you think with fanfiction, because we're riffing off canon we already know)
3) I can write setting
4) I can write a clear and consistent character POV
5) it can't be porn
Damn. Yeah. That last one's a toughie. That just took out almost all of my stories (so much for Beg Me For It).
So, the chop shop door is open. Seedy-looking criminals are ready with the grinders, welding equipment, and paint to take a story apart. Now I just need your opinion. Which story or stories should I try to turn into "original" fiction? What's doable do ya think?
[Poll #811473]
ETA: Sorry this is so wide. I wrote my own poll code and didn't know the text box would do that. Grgh. It won't let me edit the poll.
ETA2: Darn. I forgot to include Traces Through Time. Pretend it's there.
Here we demonstrate that the fanfic author can write, so that said professor will allow a certain fanfic author (namely, me) to include Nanowrimo as part of the creative writing class in the fall.
Cool, huh?
Here's the trick: It can't even look like fanfiction by the time I'm done with it. In fact, he's even iffy about genre fiction, but willing to observe a genre fic that has strong characterization and a plot that doesn't hinge on the cool sci-fi/magical shit.
This means the story I slice apart and buff a little (or a lot) needs to demonstrate:
1) I can write plot, a discernable story arc
2) I can write believable characters (trickier than you think with fanfiction, because we're riffing off canon we already know)
3) I can write setting
4) I can write a clear and consistent character POV
5) it can't be porn
Damn. Yeah. That last one's a toughie. That just took out almost all of my stories (so much for Beg Me For It).
So, the chop shop door is open. Seedy-looking criminals are ready with the grinders, welding equipment, and paint to take a story apart. Now I just need your opinion. Which story or stories should I try to turn into "original" fiction? What's doable do ya think?
[Poll #811473]
ETA: Sorry this is so wide. I wrote my own poll code and didn't know the text box would do that. Grgh. It won't let me edit the poll.
ETA2: Darn. I forgot to include Traces Through Time. Pretend it's there.
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Date: 2006-09-01 03:20 am (UTC)If the former, you should may want to rework Binary Roles. Short, powerful, poignant. Also, short.
But, Traces through Time definitely shows you can write plot, and it gives you more scope to reveal character and setting. Oohh, it really has lovely potential for an original fic story, with just a bit of tweaking and fleshing out.
See, I think Cursed Artefacts for Sale is one of your strongest stories, in terms of writing style and voice, but it feels so finished to me. I'm not sure you could wrest it out of the canon-world so easily.
Best of luck to you!
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Date: 2006-09-01 03:32 am (UTC)I'm asking the teacher for a favor: to let me use the classroom exercises to build a story for nanowrimo, and then use nanowrimo for my portfolio. He wants evidence first that I don't need to work on story-telling basics. Didn't phrase it that way, but I got the point.
Icarus