[PUBLIC POST] Let's talk fandom!

[ljwrites]

All right, the weekly open posts are back! This week let's talk about our fandom obsessions, or just works that we really like. Here are some possible discussion launchers, but feel free to ignore some or all of them and add your own:

- What are some of your favorite works?
- Were you or are you involved in fandom?
- How did your favorite works or fandoms influence your writing?

Go to town, folks!

Comments

[ljwrites]

It's also been good for letting me work more on the writing side of things, with less focus demanded for character and plot. . . . That's what makes me say "testing grounds."

An excellent insight. It's kind of like working with a section or module of existing code to test it out, rather than trying to test and run an entire application built from the ground up. On a related note, I have argued that fanfic lends itself to a completely different style of storytelling than original fiction.

[inkdust]

"I have argued that fanfic lends itself to a completely different style of storytelling than original fiction." I agree completely. I'm happy to be getting to know it in addition to the other.