Invention Vs. Extrapolation?
Jan. 19th, 2013 10:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sakon76An intriguing difference between writing original stuff and writing fanfiction: I can tell the moments I am writing good stuff in my novels. They're the moments I go "Wait, what? How the-- Where did that even COME from?!" They're the moments the world I'm creating throws me complete curveballs. I delight in these moments. (They're also part of why I cannot plot things minutely or in fact to the end.)
Fanfiction, I really have no such gleeful markers to tell me when I'm doing good. I pretty much have to rely on my knowledge of my own base writing/creativity level to know that the story is okay.
Fanfiction, I really have no such gleeful markers to tell me when I'm doing good. I pretty much have to rely on my knowledge of my own base writing/creativity level to know that the story is okay.
