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mantisgodsdomain · 2 years ago

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Got new news from an old fandom today. We... remembered just why we left. Might've given a bit of insight into our current modes of writing, too. It's still a shitshow over there, but it's shone a light on things.

What we like in fiction is... nuance. Cohesion. When the pieces fit together, when we can dig deeper and find a bigger picture, when it's art that we can look at from a multitude of angles and gain new insight from that. We try and work at ever-so-slightly new takes on characters, but we still have to put the work in to avoid drifting, to avoid flanderization, to avoid losing the plot.

And we aren't sure we could do that with a live, multi-chapter work. And we're even less certain we could handle it with the potential of having to readjust course partway through a fic. We are not a fast author, for the most part. We sit and we plot and we plan, and it takes a lot of revisions to hit the final draft. We could not uphold a solid schedule unless everything was already written.

We want to avoid our art running into the pitfalls we've already seen in action, and so we try and work to make things that won't fall into those pitfalls.

#tbh we do worry about rev a bit if only because like. the pieces for something similar are there #we worry about being so close to the creator. we worry about it being so easy to affect things.#a bit of healthy distance is perhaps best when it comes to works #for context the fandom in question is riddled with problems we cant quite complain about without sounding like a middle-aged republican #and has a VERY consistent problem with the author being harassed every time they do something too “problematic” in their work #examples including “a relationship has communication issues” and “people think a characters hair isnt ethnic enough”#which. sure it isnt the same but there are a lot of the same ingredients around and we fear itll reach a boil similarly #we fear we might be one of the pebbles in the landslide if we arent careful and we dont want that because we've SEEN how it turns out #and worrying wont do us any good but we still worry if only because there's little else to do #its all... we dont know #we're going to go and shore up our character knowledge soon. make sure we aren't falling victim to the same problems #if an author cant keep their own characters consistent it grows harder and harder to trust theyre working the right way #and if an author audibly doesnt care for a character then it grows harder and harder to trust that what theyre doing Works #and we dont want to fall victim to being the sort of author who does either of these things esp. when we're watching the fallout of both #we speak #negative chatter

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