i think it depends on the fandom -and- the sort of fic that you write. me, i don't write anything with a plot, or really anything long at all, and so i think i can get away with
but within limits. as much as i, after 8 episodes today, am convinced that dan & casey are soinlove, i'm not going to start writing sports night fic until i've made it through the set.
but on the other hand, i'm not going to let the fact that i haven't read all twenty aubrey/maturin novels get in the way of me slashing the dickens out of them (a side note - it was weird for me to type it that way. i always just call the fandom/series/whatever master & commander. but non-slash people, and in fact the flyleaf of the books themselvs, call it aubrey/maturin. and who am i to argue?)
but i write moments and moods and bizarre crossovers, and though i like to personally have a firm basis in canon, canon is not some holy thing that i must not violate. which is an entirely different post. i ought to write that. not tonight, though :)
(i think i can get away with not completing a thought, apparently)
i think i can get away with not knowing every last detail about a character. i think, was what i meant to say. but i'm not sure anymore. all i know is that twenty is a lot of books. and that there's nothing wrong with film!canon, either.
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8/8/04 01:40 (UTC)but within limits. as much as i, after 8 episodes today, am convinced that dan & casey are soinlove, i'm not going to start writing sports night fic until i've made it through the set.
but on the other hand, i'm not going to let the fact that i haven't read all twenty aubrey/maturin novels get in the way of me slashing the dickens out of them (a side note - it was weird for me to type it that way. i always just call the fandom/series/whatever master & commander. but non-slash people, and in fact the flyleaf of the books themselvs, call it aubrey/maturin. and who am i to argue?)
but i write moments and moods and bizarre crossovers, and though i like to personally have a firm basis in canon, canon is not some holy thing that i must not violate. which is an entirely different post. i ought to write that. not tonight, though :)
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8/8/04 15:59 (UTC)i think i can get away with not knowing every last detail about a character. i think, was what i meant to say. but i'm not sure anymore. all i know is that twenty is a lot of books. and that there's nothing wrong with film!canon, either.