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cimoreneintriguing thread on rps on journalfen here.
Is that important? How out-of-canon can we go before it doesn't feel like RPS anymore? How out-of-canon does a story have to get before you lose interest? Are there stories that interest you because they're off-canon?
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sagralisse: Too on-canon feels creepy to me, as far as digging up information.
syxer7: I like a feeling of a coherent universe, how canon provides interesting jumping-off points and references that resonate between fics.
and here's my take on rps, yawn
to me, writing fanfiction is a writing 'assignment' with an inherent challenge to say something provocative about something your audience knows a great deal about. the more you know about canon, the more guidelines there are.
if you don't give a shit for canon, why name three gay guys getting drunk while filming a movie elijah, dom, and billy, and why set it in new zealand? otoh, if your assignment is to, say, read three interviews and two one-page bios and watch fifteen video clips of under five minutes each, and posit an entire cohesive character for the person you've caught a glimpse of which is convincing to others in every particular, well, *then* you're talking.
i think writing classes could benefit greatly from this kind of thing, because ALL writing, no matter how fantastic, has to demonstrate that keen eye for not just observation, but also synthesis and analysis on the part of the writer to be any good.
Is that important? How out-of-canon can we go before it doesn't feel like RPS anymore? How out-of-canon does a story have to get before you lose interest? Are there stories that interest you because they're off-canon?
sagralisse: Too on-canon feels creepy to me, as far as digging up information.syxer7: I like a feeling of a coherent universe, how canon provides interesting jumping-off points and references that resonate between fics.and here's my take on rps, yawn
to me, writing fanfiction is a writing 'assignment' with an inherent challenge to say something provocative about something your audience knows a great deal about. the more you know about canon, the more guidelines there are.
if you don't give a shit for canon, why name three gay guys getting drunk while filming a movie elijah, dom, and billy, and why set it in new zealand? otoh, if your assignment is to, say, read three interviews and two one-page bios and watch fifteen video clips of under five minutes each, and posit an entire cohesive character for the person you've caught a glimpse of which is convincing to others in every particular, well, *then* you're talking.
i think writing classes could benefit greatly from this kind of thing, because ALL writing, no matter how fantastic, has to demonstrate that keen eye for not just observation, but also synthesis and analysis on the part of the writer to be any good.
