Fulfillment From Fanfic

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Does writing fanfiction make you happy?

Of course it does. That's why you do it. If that's not why you do it, don't tell me.

But what I want to know is, is it a happy that staves off boredom and is entertaining, rather than a happy that makes you want to jump up and down and run in circles and smile all the time because you're secretly thinking of what you're going to write next? Is it the kind of happy that makes it so you can't wait to sit down in front of your computer so you can see what happens next? Is it the kind of happy that every once in a while makes you bursty feeling?

I hope it is.

Comments

[semby.livejournal.com]

I don't feel like I ever use it as a way to stave off boredom. I think I'm happiest at fic writing when I do it because a scene has randomly popped into my head, and I can see it so clearly and I feel like bad wrong things will happen if I don't get it written down and build a story around it. I find it the most frustrating when I'm writing to suit a challenge I don't feel and it's not coming, or I'm writing something that works so much better in my head than it's turning into on paper... which is happening now.
But yes, every once in a while I get that bursty feeling, when everything feels like it's just working out right. That's pretty nice.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

hahaha! Bad things will happen! That's an interesting why of putting it. I get that feeling too: write it down, OR ELSE. I wonder what the or else is though. I think it's mostly that I'll forget. That's why I started writing fanfiction anyway. I always used to come up with stories in my head about characters I loved, but then when I wanted to do the next part, I'd forgotten what came before, so I started writing it all down.

Yeah, writing for challenges, or forcing yourself to write, is tough. A lot of times, what happens in my head is different than on paper, because paper is so...linear. You have to put the idea down one word at a time, instead of transferring the idea fully formed from your head. Which you know, is what writing IS, but sometimes I'm surprised that I can't make the two match!