open-ended question as follow-up
11 May 2010 11:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaigoumain poll; addendum; and consider this part three:
The phrasing is awkward, but my head is full of wood-glue this morning: generally, I mean that if you have written and/or do write fanfic, then this question applies. If you read fanfic and can think of stories but rarely ever actually write them out and post them somewhere for fandom consumption, then this question doesn't apply because your own disinclination to write is already a large-enough barrier. What I'm looking for here is what stops you from writing when your own laziness or disinclination is not a significant barrier: that is, you'd normally write the fanfic, but some criteria makes you decide not to write, after all.
Assuming all other factors are equal:
WHERE a story otherwise satisfies your personal requirements for prompting fanfic ideas,
AND that you write/have written fanfic and posted it for fandom consumption,
AND that you'd normally sit down and start writing the story in your head...
what makes you not write the fanfiction?
The phrasing is awkward, but my head is full of wood-glue this morning: generally, I mean that if you have written and/or do write fanfic, then this question applies. If you read fanfic and can think of stories but rarely ever actually write them out and post them somewhere for fandom consumption, then this question doesn't apply because your own disinclination to write is already a large-enough barrier. What I'm looking for here is what stops you from writing when your own laziness or disinclination is not a significant barrier: that is, you'd normally write the fanfic, but some criteria makes you decide not to write, after all.
Assuming all other factors are equal:
WHERE a story otherwise satisfies your personal requirements for prompting fanfic ideas,
AND that you write/have written fanfic and posted it for fandom consumption,
AND that you'd normally sit down and start writing the story in your head...
what makes you not write the fanfiction?
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Date: 12 May 2010 03:15 am (UTC)What stops me from writing/posting/considering fic (in the order they come to mind):
1. The fic, done properly, would be too open-ended/outside my scope to want to commit too.
2. Canon is something I only know peripherally, and I don't have time or inclination to get into knowing the details.
3. Too personal, and I haven't found a way to make it more than me working out personal issues.
4. Fic idea would take more skill than I have to pull it off properly (I have a three-way body-swap fic idea, complete with potential OT3age, but writing it would be the metaphorical equivalent to walking through a minefield)
5. I've already written something else in the fandom with an almost identical concept.
6. Fandom has plenty of fics with the same characters and concepts. "Plenty" being a perceived ratio.
7. Idea has unfortunate implications that I'd rather not deal with.
8. Idea is not my story to tell.
9. Canon is something where I don't feel a need to fill in gaps.