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Date Posted: Monday, April 11, 09:17:01am
Author: Nell
Subject: What gives you plot bunnies - as a writer or a reader? (r)

I've been thinking about this question for a bit - what kinds of sources give you plot bunnies (whether or not you ever take the next step of writing one down, not to mention the next of actually showing that to anyone....) and which don't?

Over the last year I've watched the entire Farscape series (a sci-fi channel series than ran for four years plus a two part mini-series movie) on DVD. I actually found it while I was still watching LFN, it came on right afterwards so I watched them back to back for a while...then I lost cable, and didn't finish the series until this year. Okay - I adore Farscape. Adore it. In some ways even more than LFN. And there is a vast supply of fanfic for the series.

But I have no desire to read most of the Farscape fanfic, and none at all to write any. None. Which surprises me endlessly. I was so sure that I would *want* to write some once I'd finished the whole - (actually, I have the DVD for the final mini-series, the Peacekeeper Wars, but didn't get to it this past weekend....so I'm not *quite* finished with seeing it all...but anyway, you get the point) and, yet, I don't. The series is hardly 'over' - and they certainly skipped over lots of time now and again in canon that could be filled, fic-wise, and developed a huge complex universe to play in, which has been by other writers. But, I don't feel it myself.

LFN on the other hand....I finally got my S2 DVDs, but (being me) decided I obviously needed to re-watch the whole of S1 first, so as to be especially primed for S2. (Why yes, before watching my Christmas gift ROTK DVDs, I watched all 8 hours of the first two EE editions.... *bg*)

And three episodes in, the plot bunnies are once again flying fast and furious.

So, I'm wondering why? And does anyone else have this differential in fic inspiration, reading or writing, which doesn't neatly correlate with love the soure material?

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Replies:

Hmm...(r) -- Swatkat, Monday, April 11, 09:43:45am
- Re: Hmm...(r) -- Nell, Monday, April 11, 10:25:45am
  - Not just to fix things (r) -- Rita, Monday, April 11, 10:57:13am
    - Re: Not just to fix things (r) -- Diane, Monday, April 11, 05:59:16pm
      - Those questions certainly push/pull my reading along (r) -- Nell, Tuesday, April 12, 07:46:54pm
    - Exactly! (r) -- JayBee, Monday, April 11, 06:00:45pm
      - Re: Exactly! (r) -- Diane, Monday, April 11, 08:48:51pm
        "Is" there Brady Bunch fanfic? (r) -- Nell, Tuesday, April 12, 07:53:20pm
        *cough* -- Swatkat, Wednesday, April 13, 11:32:48am
      - Oh yeah (r) -- Nell, Tuesday, April 12, 07:51:13pm
    - Good point about the "why" questions (r) -- Nell, Tuesday, April 12, 07:44:54pm
      - Re: Good point about the "why" questions (r) -- Swatkat, Wednesday, April 13, 12:03:51pm
        Well - LFN is (I think anyway) a particularly problem filled canon! (r) -- Nell, Wednesday, April 13, 01:13:05pm
        Hmmm - could be...(r) -- Swatkat, Thursday, April 14, 02:10:34am
  - Re: Hmm...(r) -- Swatkat, Monday, April 11, 12:14:14pm
    - That's very interesting (r) -- Nell, Tuesday, April 12, 07:55:53pm
      - Well, you know...(r) -- Swatkat, Wednesday, April 13, 11:25:51am
        Or, perhaps, when the conventions of a particular corner of a fandom really don't care (r) -- Nell, Wednesday, April 13, 01:20:56pm
        That's just plain unimaginative writing.(r) -- Swatkat, Thursday, April 14, 02:07:16am
        "Unimaginative" is not an excuse, I don't think anyway. (r) -- Nell, Thursday, April 14, 09:14:20am
        Ugg! This *doesn't* not This "don't." Post in haste and all that..... (NT) -- Nell, Thursday, April 14, 09:17:27am
all of the above -- sk, Saturday, April 23, 02:03:41pm
- Re: all of the above -- Swatkat, Monday, April 25, 03:52:44am
  - coherent -- sk, Monday, April 25, 09:00:39am
- Oh yes - in the end, if it wasn't for the characters, what would it all be about, really? (r) -- Nell, Monday, April 25, 07:32:49pm
  - It's funny... (r) -- JayBee, Monday, April 25, 08:37:40pm
    - Also...(r) -- Swatkat, Monday, April 25, 09:01:52pm
      - Good point...(r) -- JayBee, Monday, April 25, 09:57:34pm
        It's the same with me...(r) -- Swatkat, Tuesday, April 26, 03:27:28am
        Yep...(r) -- JayBee, Tuesday, April 26, 06:50:21am
        Not to mention...(r) -- Swatkat, Tuesday, April 26, 07:16:10am
        Hmmm...(r) -- JayBee, Tuesday, April 26, 08:33:10am
        Re: Hmmm...(r) -- Nell, Tuesday, April 26, 10:26:41am
        Yep, I think you're right (r) -- JayBee, Tuesday, April 26, 11:31:18am
        Re: Yep, I think you're right (r) -- Nell, Tuesday, April 26, 11:49:25am
        gender roles -- sk, Tuesday, April 26, 07:01:13pm
        Re: Good point...(r) -- sk, Tuesday, April 26, 08:23:18am
        Yes, exactly (r) -- Nell, Tuesday, April 26, 10:30:59am
        I've written a fair amount of AU (r) -- Nell, Tuesday, April 26, 10:14:10am
        And...(r) -- Swatkat, Tuesday, April 26, 08:58:56pm