Reading and Writing, Weekend October 24–27

[scribblemyname]

This entry is part 23 of 23 in the series Daily Scribble Reports

So playing total catch-up here (I know, I know). On Thursday, I managed to write some at the end in the Justus POV fic of "Its Own Absolution" due to a wonderful antagonists prompt from in_the_blue. It gave me a good headstart. I percolated a lot on Sabbath about it, but didn't turn that sketch into fic until Sunday, and awkward fic at that.

Somewhere in there, I also sketched down some other stuff and have started to rethink my approach to this collaboration. I need something that doesn't fit easily into worldbuilding I've already done for any other story. It's not fair to thecatisacritic.

Also, trovia got me off on an amazing Avengers fanfic novel (I'm a sucker for brothers), so there's that. It took time to read and was good for when I was feeling totally bleh on the mental front.

To the counts:

October 24, 2013

• Fiction: 1041 words - Month to Date: 29,911 words
• Blog: 0 words - Month to Date: 8,803 words
• Nonfiction: 48 words - Month to Date: 362 words

October 26, 2013

• Fiction: 180 words - Month to Date: 30,091 words
• Blog: 0 words - Month to Date: 8,803 words
• Nonfiction: 0 words - Month to Date: 362 words

October 27, 2013

• Fiction: 1139 words - Month to Date: 31,230 words
• Blog: 0 words - Month to Date: 8,803 words
• Nonfiction: 0 words - Month to Date: 362 words

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Comments

[scribblemyname]

That's why I said not your thinking so much, characters who feel that way and fiction in general. I don't think it's necessarily readers who don't want to see it (behold! domestic fanfiction), but rather big media. :shrugs: But that's just my opinion.

[thecatisacritic.livejournal.com]

I always think of that line in Spiderman. It kind of sums up the whole attitude: "With great power comes great responsibility."

It's like: you have abilities most don't, so you have to take responsibilities that others wouldn't.

Being a hero sells, so big media would sell it. They won't sell domestic stories because that's too close to the lives people already lead, so who cares? Obviously people do, but for those concerned with money, it's got to be what sells.

They do like the angst of superheroes wishing they were normal, but even when they lose powers they don't seem to be content being normal. They have to go back to being a hero somehow.

[scribblemyname]

The problem is they never took the time to trial and error a domestic that worked. They only tried one and it was very retro music scene, so it only appealed to niche and got nixed. I don't play to sales. I'm a fangirl, so yeah, I want to write what I fangirl.

[thecatisacritic.livejournal.com]

Yeah.

I started in fanfiction because I was tired of the characters being forced apart for ratings reasons, and I wanted to show that it could work if that mindset was thrown out the window. It always did for me, but the people who make the decisions about stuff just don't seem to realize that there is a huge market of people who want to see the characters happy (in a relationship or not) and keep writing things that create more of a need for fanfiction.