There's definitely something to sitting down and just letting it spin out of you.
My stories tend to be long
The ones I write in the way you describe--that is, the ones I don't really have a beginning-to-end fleshed out outline for, and the ones I'm writing because I want an after-the-end or a couple to get together--tend to be very long, too. I wonder if there's something to that?
And same about the bit of everything (romance, humor, drama, et al) vs the long drawn-out angst of other fic writers. Again, when I'm writing the long, semi-unplanned shipper/extension of canon fics, I try to include all those elements, because that's what canon did. But when I want to take a character and not so much find out what's going to happen to him but what was happening in him, I tend to write short fic that's dark and weighty and angsty.
I've also taken some seldom- and never- seen canon characters and turned them loose on the pages -- Oz's cousin Jordy and Fred's dad Roger Burkle -- and they are SO much fun to work with! I even got brave and made some recurring original characters, and they've been well-received by readers, too.
Oh, cool, Burkle fic! Awesome! And I love OCs when they're well done. But you're right, it definitely takes bravery.
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My stories tend to be long
The ones I write in the way you describe--that is, the ones I don't really have a beginning-to-end fleshed out outline for, and the ones I'm writing because I want an after-the-end or a couple to get together--tend to be very long, too. I wonder if there's something to that?
And same about the bit of everything (romance, humor, drama, et al) vs the long drawn-out angst of other fic writers. Again, when I'm writing the long, semi-unplanned shipper/extension of canon fics, I try to include all those elements, because that's what canon did. But when I want to take a character and not so much find out what's going to happen to him but what was happening in him, I tend to write short fic that's dark and weighty and angsty.
I've also taken some seldom- and never- seen canon characters and turned them loose on the pages -- Oz's cousin Jordy and Fred's dad Roger Burkle -- and they are SO much fun to work with! I even got brave and made some recurring original characters, and they've been well-received by readers, too.
Oh, cool, Burkle fic! Awesome! And I love OCs when they're well done. But you're right, it definitely takes bravery.