the things you think about when editing

[aesc]

I spent my day having cramps and reworking part of a paper, and toward the end when I had gotten tired of writing WTF DOES THIS MEAN??? in the margins, I thought it would be sort of amusing to try to write a fic in a fandom whose canon I know almost absolutely nothing about--just, say, what I could pick up on my flist or through a handful of fics--just to see if I could pull it off.

I also thought about when I was nine years old and had surgery, and going under the general anaesthetic and concluding that this undefinable, blank space of nothing (bounded as it was by two very clear memories: the nurse placing the gas mask over my mouth and waking up and seeing blood on my pillow) must be what death is like.

These two thoughts were not related, although I am intrigued by both of them.

Also, pentapus made this terribly adorable Castiel icon (and some Captain America and Merlin, if you're into those sorts of things) here. LOOK AT HIM!


Iiiiii should probably stop for the night.

Comments

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Ha ha yes, perhaps! Maybe just something very informal... like "Pick a fandom with canon you've only had minimal exposure to (i.e. you haven't seen the whole series, read more than a couple chapters of the book, seen the trailer for the movie) and write a fic about it." Maybe with list of prompts, either generated by you or submitted by others. But I'm not a huge fan of very stringent challenges ;)

[friendshipper.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I like them more informal myself.

I was also thinking that a comment-ficathon might be less intimidating than having to write a whole story with an actual, you know, plot and everything, and that's where the Wiki random link generator comes in, to give people a non-binding starting point for their story.

[aesc.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'm not sure how much a person could be expected to get out of limited knowledge of canon. Probably whatever the character limit is on a comment, though, I bet :D