it's not about fixing it, but it is about analyzing it and processing it and making it make more sense to me. Sometimes I have to explain things to myself.
Yeah, exactly. It's amazing how many times I've sat down with meta about a character and then decided to write a fic instead of an essay. There was this post on metafandom a bit ago about how fanfic is/can be academic/intellectual discourse, except it's the intuitive sort rather than the analytical. I thought that was a brilliant way of looking at it.
I wish I could write just to play with the world.
I do do this at times and it's never pretty.
As for plot...even when I have a plot and really think I am writing *just* to make something happen, a theme creeps up that ends up being something Deep And Meaningful I've discovered or need to process about the characters.
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Yeah, exactly. It's amazing how many times I've sat down with meta about a character and then decided to write a fic instead of an essay. There was this post on metafandom a bit ago about how fanfic is/can be academic/intellectual discourse, except it's the intuitive sort rather than the analytical. I thought that was a brilliant way of looking at it.
I wish I could write just to play with the world.
I do do this at times and it's never pretty.
As for plot...even when I have a plot and really think I am writing *just* to make something happen, a theme creeps up that ends up being something Deep And Meaningful I've discovered or need to process about the characters.
and thanks!