Since I’ve shared fic on AO3 and fic-related posts on my DW, it’s taken me a while to get back here. Thank you for still replying!
Now I can’t resist quoting… Ah, how you've explained how you read also explains how what you had to say after reading a couple of my short stories was just that my Remus is okay! I wish there were readers who read – even listened – to every word I’ve carefully chosen, but I guess I’m an anomaly with my writing.
Yes, I agree that the complexity of the worlds must be a reason why people end up writing long fic in HP and LotR. When I started (right after OotP came out), I thought that fanfic was about writing a chaptered story like Rowling’s, because others on the forum posted about the beginning of Harry’s sixth year. I just chose an adult’s perspective and ended up not covering a school year but expanding the world and going deeper, so that the story turned into a novel.
Only after six months or so did I write my first short story, and it was redoing a scene of my novel from another perspective. After that it’s been easier to feel motivated to and succeed in writing sharable drabbles and short stories of any length (from 500 to 20 000 words). I enjoy the challenge of making each of them work separately – some of them even separately from the canon, like the two drabbles I reposted the other day on my DW, too – while adding something meaningful to the whole big story and including references to various parts of it.
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Now I can’t resist quoting… Ah, how you've explained how you read also explains how what you had to say after reading a couple of my short stories was just that my Remus is okay! I wish there were readers who read – even listened – to every word I’ve carefully chosen, but I guess I’m an anomaly with my writing.
Yes, I agree that the complexity of the worlds must be a reason why people end up writing long fic in HP and LotR. When I started (right after OotP came out), I thought that fanfic was about writing a chaptered story like Rowling’s, because others on the forum posted about the beginning of Harry’s sixth year. I just chose an adult’s perspective and ended up not covering a school year but expanding the world and going deeper, so that the story turned into a novel.
Only after six months or so did I write my first short story, and it was redoing a scene of my novel from another perspective. After that it’s been easier to feel motivated to and succeed in writing sharable drabbles and short stories of any length (from 500 to 20 000 words). I enjoy the challenge of making each of them work separately – some of them even separately from the canon, like the two drabbles I reposted the other day on my DW, too – while adding something meaningful to the whole big story and including references to various parts of it.