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fierceawakening:
cosleia:
I love ideas, and story tropes, and headcanons. But what I really love is the fanworks that explore these things. The idea, the trope, the headcanon…those alone don’t give the work value, for me. What I love is your unique perspective.
I would never tell the story the way you would. We all have completely different lives and experiences and values. You’ll think of things I’d never think of, and beyond that, you have skills I don’t have. Your craft has developed differently. The way you structure your story or render your art…it’s unique to you. No one else can do it your way.
I love seeing creators leverage their individual skills, the culmination of their lives up to the point of creation, to bring forth a wholly unique work.
It doesn’t matter to me if there are 500 bedsharing fics. I’ll read yours because it’s yours. It doesn’t matter if a thousand people have drawn a bridal carry. Yours will delight me because it will show me you.
You don’t need to have a completely unique idea. That’s impossible. What you need to do is put the effort into developing it and creating a finished work. That work will be yours, a work only you could have made, regardless of the original idea.
“There’s already a fic about…” Doesn’t matter. There isn’t already your fic about it.
Show me your art. Show me your craft. Create something.
This is probably going too far afield, but… this is one reason why I look askance at the way a lot of people put writing down for having tropes or being tropey.
Tropes are an armature. Tropes are a framework. I don’t think anyone’s work is devoid of tropes, whether fanfic or original fiction.
Some tropes have baggage, that’s true. Some are weighted down by stereotypes, and that’s an area in which everyone should tread at least a little carefully.
But no two writers will write the same story, even if they start from the same trope.
Because a trope is an idea.
The trope is not the story.
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fierceawakening:
cosleia:
I love ideas, and story tropes, and headcanons. But what I really love is the fanworks that explore these things. The idea, the trope, the headcanon…those alone don’t give the work value, for me. What I love is your unique perspective.
I would never tell the story the way you would. We all have completely different lives and experiences and values. You’ll think of things I’d never think of, and beyond that, you have skills I don’t have. Your craft has developed differently. The way you structure your story or render your art…it’s unique to you. No one else can do it your way.
I love seeing creators leverage their individual skills, the culmination of their lives up to the point of creation, to bring forth a wholly unique work.
It doesn’t matter to me if there are 500 bedsharing fics. I’ll read yours because it’s yours. It doesn’t matter if a thousand people have drawn a bridal carry. Yours will delight me because it will show me you.
You don’t need to have a completely unique idea. That’s impossible. What you need to do is put the effort into developing it and creating a finished work. That work will be yours, a work only you could have made, regardless of the original idea.
“There’s already a fic about…” Doesn’t matter. There isn’t already your fic about it.
Show me your art. Show me your craft. Create something.
This is probably going too far afield, but… this is one reason why I look askance at the way a lot of people put writing down for having tropes or being tropey.
Tropes are an armature. Tropes are a framework. I don’t think anyone’s work is devoid of tropes, whether fanfic or original fiction.
Some tropes have baggage, that’s true. Some are weighted down by stereotypes, and that’s an area in which everyone should tread at least a little carefully.
But no two writers will write the same story, even if they start from the same trope.
Because a trope is an idea.
The trope is not the story.
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