30 days of fanfiction meme (days 20-21)
Jul. 20th, 2011 01:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
petronia20 – Do you ever get bunnied from other people's stories or art in the same fandom?
Reading other ppl's fanstuff (including meta, random comments, whatever) refines my ideas, as I've mentioned. Fanon is an ongoing conversation! If we're talking direct inspiration, though, then no - I'm rarely directly inspired by one single anything. I wouldn't eg. write a fic describing a scene depicted in a piece of fanart (well, I did image prompts for SSBB, but I wouldn't normally).
21 – Sequels – Have you ever written a sequel to a fic you wrote, and if so, why, and if not, how do you feel about sequels?
I had to think about this. XD Yes - I wrote a sequel to Demi. That was the first and last time I wrote a standalone story, someone (Tania) asked me for a sequel, so I sat down and wrote a sequel (unfinished). All my other story arcs and open-ended universes were intended as such from day one. If I wrote four fics in a (loose) sequence, chances are I mentally sketched out fourteen. I don't know if that makes them all "sequels" of the first; certainly I don't always start with the first event in the overall timeline. I don't like creating more than one 'verse per fandom, because I'm lazy. XD
I guess I like sequels as a reader? I mean, if you liked the first one of anything, you'll check out the second unless someone tells you it sucked, right? I almost never read all the books in a long series, though.
Reading other ppl's fanstuff (including meta, random comments, whatever) refines my ideas, as I've mentioned. Fanon is an ongoing conversation! If we're talking direct inspiration, though, then no - I'm rarely directly inspired by one single anything. I wouldn't eg. write a fic describing a scene depicted in a piece of fanart (well, I did image prompts for SSBB, but I wouldn't normally).
21 – Sequels – Have you ever written a sequel to a fic you wrote, and if so, why, and if not, how do you feel about sequels?
I had to think about this. XD Yes - I wrote a sequel to Demi. That was the first and last time I wrote a standalone story, someone (Tania) asked me for a sequel, so I sat down and wrote a sequel (unfinished). All my other story arcs and open-ended universes were intended as such from day one. If I wrote four fics in a (loose) sequence, chances are I mentally sketched out fourteen. I don't know if that makes them all "sequels" of the first; certainly I don't always start with the first event in the overall timeline. I don't like creating more than one 'verse per fandom, because I'm lazy. XD
I guess I like sequels as a reader? I mean, if you liked the first one of anything, you'll check out the second unless someone tells you it sucked, right? I almost never read all the books in a long series, though.
