In the Spirit of the Season

[scribblemyname]

This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Holiday Requests 2014

No holiday requests for today (feel free to ask for more!), so I thought I'd talk a little bit about the stuff I've been thinking about, largely because I noticed I tend to write a couple commentfic every day regardless of whether I write anything else.

En brief: writing some small prompted thing without an expectation of perfection or any amount of length helps keep my ideas flowing and me writing. I can usually manage it regardless of what else is working well or not.

It made it obvious to me how much I like writing AUs of my AUs and tons of different premises or ships with the same characters and how much it irks me in original fiction when I'm stuck with one solid canon. Did you know I apparently ship all of the following:

• Bucky/Maria
• Maria/Clint
• Natasha/Clint
• Bobbi/Clint
• Natasha/Bucky

It's almost scary. To say nothing of my heaps of headcanons that conflict and different much beloved backstories I make up for these people, among many others in many other fandoms. No wonder I have difficulty sometimes nailing down my original worlds. I like to open things up, not nail them down.

On a different note, I still love gifting fic. I can write for myself and do, but there's something wonderful about giving that kicks in with prompts that makes it so much easier and also that puts on more constraints to what I'll produce because I want the recipient to like it, even if they only care that I like it.

There's a prompter at the comm who doesn't care if the fills tickle their fancy, only that I'm happy with the fic, but I'm only happy if they like it and it suits them, which is hard at times because they like rarepair (how I picked up a couple actually) and don't like Clint/Natasha.

So rambly thinky thoughts.

Happy ficcing to all of you doing Yuletide or Secret Santa (don't get me started :growls: ) or anything else!

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Comments

[classics-lover.livejournal.com]

I'm sort of the opposite, I like to work with a specific canon, I find it ridiculously hard to write AUs or crossovers or fusion fics. I can come up with all sorts of mad headcanons, but I can't drop characters from one fandom into other fandoms.

I don't often OTP, I tend to multiship, mainly because any time I've picked an OTP it ended up being the least popular pairing in fandom (oh, Gillette/Norrington, I miss you) and there was no other fic for it. So I now multiship :)

[scribblemyname]

I do prefer working in canon to crossovers, fusions or radical AUs, but once I start a storyline of my own, I keep yearning for another angle, another path, and so usually end up starting to write it. :le sigh: It's horrible for the self-discipline. If you ever want to see someone with too many WIPs, visit my FF.net profile. I promised myself I wouldn't bring them all over to AO3 until I wrapped them.

Multiship is smart. I just fall in love with these characters and couples and next thing I know, I've written 100 fics for one, so a lot of times, it definitely seems like I OTP even when I do multiship. I think it's safer to multiship and definitely healthier mentally.

[classics-lover.livejournal.com]

I'm a demon for one-shot fics. I'll start a multichapter fic, finish it in my head and forget that I haven't written it. There's like six of those on the Skyrim Kinkmeme, and I'm just glad the meme's Anon because I feel bad for leaving the OPs hanging :(