| Drawing the line between fannish involvement and writerly detachment - how do you do it? |
[Feb. 2nd, 2010|02:46 pm] |
I'm starting to notice that when I'm thinking up a story, there's something of me in it.
Mild example: I picture Brian in my head from a particular scene/episode, start writing a description, then slip into 1st person Justin. I have in effect attributed my own experience/thoughts to Justin.
Stronger example: I'm personally bothered by the way B/J broke up/got back together in canon, so I plot an AU in which they do it in a way more to MY liking. I've then imposed my values about relationships onto B/J, my quirky understanding of how they'd be together, and broken canon rules of their dynamic.
Either way, there is that sense that I might be diluting IC-ness, and ignoring canon logic. This is a problem worth addressing.
BUT there's also a catch-22; my energy for writing seems to come from my fannish involvement and feelings of identification; so I can't just tell those feelings (i.e. of how I see Brian, or how I ideally wanted the story to go in canon) to disappear. They have to be worked through somehow.
If I'm writing as a fan, I have a desire to express and indulge my interpretations of the characters and their stories, as well as identifications or projections I might have. But if I'm writing as a creator for an audience, I've got to honour the consensus view of the characters. Of course, there's some overlap. But what do you do with the disparities?
One thing I'm considering is, just write it anyway, get it out of my system so I can move on. Or maybe there are exercises I can do to help surrender my projections, like just writing down purely what I see on the show. Or maybe I need to stick to writing about characters I can look at a bit more objectively, who don't brush up against my psychic hotspots (so, no Brian&Justin for me). What would you do?
ETA: I'm talking about both conscious and unconscious projections. I believe they always start out as unconscious. As conscious awareness grows, some of them can be discarded fairly comfortably, while others are pet notions to which I find I'm attached. Just being conscious of them isn't enough to make them stop flavouring my thinking. Plus, there's also the nagging sense that I've probably got a bunch of other unconscious projections that I don't see and can't control. |
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| Question about middle names |
[Feb. 2nd, 2010|10:42 pm] |
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![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) suze_y and myself were having a crack-fest discussion regarding Justin's middle name. We were cracking each other up, until she reminded me, quite rightly, that it was Justin and that we must stop. :D But, I got to thinking...
Do we know any of the character's middle names?
Well, I know we know Michael is Michael Charles, but what about anyone else.
I have seen Brian's middle name given as Alexander in more than one fic, but I don't know if that is canon. And I seem to remember (and I can't for the life of me remember in which episode) Deb saying something about the A. standing for asshole. (or maybe I just made that up, but I think I remember it) But, I can't remember seeing anyone else's middle name mentioned.
Can you???
ETA: I knew you guys would know!!! Thank you!! I am so glad you all have much better memories than mine!!! :D
Edited for grammatical craptasticness |
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