Open Thread: Oracle Hotline

[mithen]

The house is clean, my hands don't hurt (a silver lining to having to clean and not having my typing time), and despite that I still wrote 800 words in 30 minutes last night, which is a blistering pace for me! I'm usually satisfied with 1000 words in an hour... Sadly, another story I was working on got painfully jossed by canon yesterday, so I'm left looking at a bunch of prose I'm very proud of and figuring out if I can somehow trim away the stuff that doesn't work anymore and adapt it... I think I can but it will now end kind of sadly instead of happily, and I'm not thrilled with that either. It's not really something I can just blithely ignore, either, so that's not an option. That's a good question for this week: What's the worst canon has ever interfered with your writing, and how did you deal with it? I hope you're all doing well!

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[prince0froses]

My favorite little one-shot I ever wrote involved Bruce walking between timelines on his way back from the dead in Grant Morrison's continuity where that's a thing that happens. I wrote it before I read the last bit, and of course the last bit didn't go anything like how I wrote it (well, it wouldn't have in the first place because of the shipping overtones I put in my version). I remember a LOT of Avengers fic written just before the first movie got very badly Jossed (literally!) and it's a big reason why I don't find fanfiction interesting anymore, unless it's for video game fandoms because that's all about personal headcanon.

In my original fiction writing, I make the story so it happens less, but there still have been times where the version of a scene in my head is jossed by continuity I had previously planned.

[mithen]

I saw people whose stories got jossed by the latest Avengers movie--jossed by Joss himself, is that an irony or an honor? :) Mmm, I wrote some stuff about Bruce while he was dead (THE LAST TIME IT HAPPENED) that yeah, it was never going to happen, but it was fun to write. *grin*