Open Thread: Oracle Hotline
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superhero_muses--Do you take liberties with canon or are you very strict about your fic being canon compliant?
Well, I write slash. And since I still define "slash" as "non-canon-same-sex-relationships" (that is, Clark/Bruce is slash, Midnighter/Apollo or Kate Kane/Renee Montoya isn't), I'm immediately setting off on a path away from canon to some extent.
That said, I do usually like to stick fairly closely to canon having made that one change! Right now both of the long stories I'm working on are non-canon (one is an alternate universe, one is a divergent-history), but that is REALLY unusual for me. But after you've written as much in DC canon as I have (a check of AO3 stats reveals I've written over 1,600,000 words there, most of it Clark/Bruce, of course) you start to want to try something a little different. Recently I'm actually wanting to work in canon more, so that's good!
I got a bunch of writing done this week, most of it emergency "Oh crap I have to get this next chapter written to make my personal arbitrary deadline" writing, but that's still good, I still made them. This is my last weekend free for a while, so I'm hoping to get some good work done during it--wish me luck!
How about you, what are you working on and how close is it to canon right now?
Well, I write slash. And since I still define "slash" as "non-canon-same-sex-relationships" (that is, Clark/Bruce is slash, Midnighter/Apollo or Kate Kane/Renee Montoya isn't), I'm immediately setting off on a path away from canon to some extent.
That said, I do usually like to stick fairly closely to canon having made that one change! Right now both of the long stories I'm working on are non-canon (one is an alternate universe, one is a divergent-history), but that is REALLY unusual for me. But after you've written as much in DC canon as I have (a check of AO3 stats reveals I've written over 1,600,000 words there, most of it Clark/Bruce, of course) you start to want to try something a little different. Recently I'm actually wanting to work in canon more, so that's good!
I got a bunch of writing done this week, most of it emergency "Oh crap I have to get this next chapter written to make my personal arbitrary deadline" writing, but that's still good, I still made them. This is my last weekend free for a while, so I'm hoping to get some good work done during it--wish me luck!
How about you, what are you working on and how close is it to canon right now?
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Date: 2015-02-01 10:38 am (UTC)That's always such a fun challenge and I'm always amazed at people who are able to do that!
Still good, wonderful even, but not where I wanted to be. I'll try harder next month.
It IS really wonderful, but I understand wanting to meet your personal goals! I'm sure you'll do great in February even if you have fewer days! :) And having two books ready to publish isn't a small thing at all, that's for sure...
It's always super nice to get ahead of my production schedule because it feels like I have room to breathe (and get sick or take a day off or whatever, you know).
I'm so sad because I used to have a backlog of chapters and stuff that could just sit there! I can't quite pin down where I lose the time I had, although I think some of it was that the backlog times were when a friend of mine was dating someone and so stopped expecting me to play video games with him for 8-10 hours every weekend. :) I kind of wish he was dating again for both his sake and mine, sometimes!