See, those wouldn't make me not write the fic. Not post it where it would attract the wank, maybe, but if it was something I really wanted to write, I would write it and post it to . . . AO3, maybe. Somewhere fairly neutral. But my reasons for not writing things tend to be these:
Not feeling up to the amount of research/worldbuilding it would take, or just not being able to find what I need to know (I don't feel comfortable making shit up when I know it's something I can check, even if I can't find where)
Not being confident I could handle the characters or issues well
The plot I picked up not really working (this tends to lead into me writing something entirely different but in the same direction, rather than stopping)
And/or the whole thing just plain not working when I try to write it out. Issues with the fandom itself don't really come into it except as a decision of where to post/not post. If, say, the canon really is too small, then there isn't usually enough get to the point of planning the fic in my head in the first place.
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Date: 11 May 2010 07:07 pm (UTC)Not feeling up to the amount of research/worldbuilding it would take, or just not being able to find what I need to know (I don't feel comfortable making shit up when I know it's something I can check, even if I can't find where)
Not being confident I could handle the characters or issues well
The plot I picked up not really working (this tends to lead into me writing something entirely different but in the same direction, rather than stopping)
And/or the whole thing just plain not working when I try to write it out. Issues with the fandom itself don't really come into it except as a decision of where to post/not post. If, say, the canon really is too small, then there isn't usually enough get to the point of planning the fic in my head in the first place.