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

[seraphcelene]

This is going to be brief because I've had a long LONG day and it's time to hit the highway and debate going to the gym.

Fic gives me the dreadful, shivery kind of happy that won't let me sleep nights until I get it out of my head. Sometimes, it's a compulsive, hand on paper kind of thing that I'm only vaguely aware of. Sometimes it's an intense urge to create, something, anything and then I think and plot and TRY to write. It's best when images flicker behind my eyelids and usually that happens just as I'm laying down to go to sleep and that kind of sucks. But, hey! It be's that way sometimes.

I can't wait to read the other comments tomorrow!

[tkp.livejournal.com]

I hope your day today is better.

I think it's cool you get images for stories. I don't really, just things to happen and then on a tighter level, words to make them happen in. But we share that way it is with sleep--either I'm up all night with ideas and don't sleep, or I get ideas as I go to sleep, so I'm screwed either way!

[seraphcelene]

The commented comment I get on my stuff is the imagery and that comes from the whole visual nature of my writing process. It plays behind my eyes like a movie reel and I just have to get it on paper before it disappears. And then, when I really like the result, I, too, read and read and read it over and over again.

It's when I can't see the fic or when I can't see portions of the fic that I get into the most trouble.

Now, I get to dive into my work day and tuck away theplot bunnies for the IWRY fic that has haunted me for the last two nights!!!

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you do have stunning imagery, girl. And you really do translate it so well to the page.

Yay, IWRY fic! yay yay yay!