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On choosing what to write
How do you decide what to write? If you have a lot of fic ideas, how do you prioritize them? Especially if you're multifandom.
I'm having trouble with that right now. Typically, I prioritize by interest, both mine and the audience's. If my own interest is high enough, I'll still write the story even if there's no audience interest, but usually it's a combination of the two.
Right now, I have story ideas I'd love to write in any number of fandoms -- Whistle!, Dear Boys, Hikaru no Go (okay, that one's just filthy, filthy porn), Gundam Wing, Stargate SG-1, BSG, Harry Potter, Ultraman Nexus, FMA, Honey and Clover, maybe even Slam Dunk one of these days -- but Prince of Tennis trumps them all for personal interest and has a healthy audience interest, so that's nearly all I write.
Even within Prince of Tennis, I have ideas that drop down the queue because they involve characters that are not my favourites. I just don't have the time and energy to write more than about 1 out of every 20 ideas, so there has to be some sort of selection process.
The thing is, I wonder if I'm making it too easy on myself. If I just keep writing about the same show and same characters, is it going to be the same thing over and over again? I feel like I'm still trying to explore those characters, but that might not always come out in what I write.
Do you make an effort for variety in your writing, even if that's not where your primary interest lies? Or do you just write whatever you feel like?
I suppose this all comes down to what I want to get out of my fannish writing. I'm still not sure what that is. (Besides fame mountains of feedback the satisfaction of doing something I enjoy.)
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Actually just last night I posted a top ten list of what I'm working on, but it wasn't necessarily in order. Or it's in the order I sort of mean to go in, but it might switch around or I might get new ideas in the meantime, or whatever.
If I have a challenge due or am trying to meet some other deadline (a friend's birthday is one that's coming up) then I will try to work on those first, but usually it's just whatever catches my interest at the time. I've never asked my flist what they'd like to see next as I have a pretty small flist and would likely get only a few answers, probably ending up with the poll all tied at two per bunny or something. :p And besides even if I know people are eagerly awaiting bunny X, that doesn't mean that when I sit down to write bunny X, it will come. Right now the two things really getting my attention are from recent books (Kavalier & Clay, and HBP), so those will probably get done first. Then I feel like omg, it's been ages since I've done a good Jude/Ewan piece, and since most people who friended me for my fic friended because of Jude/Ewan, that will likely be next in line. Oh, and the birthday fic. Gah. And I have an original fic deadline in a month, too. *flails*
That's basically my thought process most of the time there... :p
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