And I stop.
For some reason it doesn’t worry
me in fanfic. There, I just write. My fanfic issues are writing battles - gah, I
am no good at writing fight scenes. Or researching Twilight Volturi vampires. I
hate Volturi vampires… their gifts
are just dumb. You cannot touch someone and read every thought they have ever
had, your head would just explode. And it would be really annoying… ‘pass me
the wine, oh, that’s what you thought when you were two?’ Or how exactly, do
you track the mind of someone you have never met? Or the gift to repel other
vampires? Just… no.
It also doesn’t worry me in short
stories. There, I just write. The stakes are not as high. It’s only 1,000
words. Nobody cares.
In fanfic I can push my own boundaries.
I’ve never tried co-writing with someone*; I’ll give that a go. I’ve never
written slash*, I’ll give that a go. I’ve never written femslash*, I’ll try
that. I will mash together odd pairings, and I will take challenges from
readers for songs that I don’t even like* let alone ever listen to.
So what’s different?
It’s me. Or my attitude, I suppose.
In one I am willing to try and in the
other I am scared to do so.
I saw Joss Whedon speak at the
Sydney Opera House in 2010. I am sure I wrote a summary of his talk for another
website. I will have to find it and post it here. I have a vague memory of him
talking about doubt.
So if the giants are afflicted by
it, I should be comforted?
So my new motto should be: I’ll
give that a go. Right?
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* I co-wrote A Man Apart - Vin
Diesel fic with my beta http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7043485/1/A-Foreign-Affair
* Best friends share everything - Quil
and Embry together - ended up being poly http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7768970/1/Best-friends-share-everything
*Swan’s mate for life - again,
ended up being poly http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8252816/1/Swan-s-mate-for-life
*I wrote a fic for the song
Payphone once http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9160456/1/Payphone
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