Fandom Snowflake Challenge: Day 1
Jan. 1st, 2019 10:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
potentiality_26Day 1
In your own space, talk about your Happy Place—the things that give you joy, calms you or keeps you sane.
2018 was a rough year (especially in- er- political terms), and fandom has definitely been my haven. I can't zero in on a specific fandom, since I've been through quite a few, but it's been very important to remind myself that I can create and make connections with people who share my interests (both of which are difficult when I'm as stressed as I have been for the last couple of years).
I write and plan out a fair amount of original fiction- though my production has gone down over the last few years, because of the aforementioned stress- and I do love it, but writing fanfiction in particular remains my happy place. I like taking characters I already love and know other people love and putting them in different situations. I love playing with popular tropes. What I think I miss, when writing original fiction, is the feeling that it's a conversation. With the source material, with the readers, with the other people writing for that fandom, and with the people writing for other fandoms too. It's a process that means so much to me.
Happy new year! Here's hoping it's a good- and creative- one for everybody.
In your own space, talk about your Happy Place—the things that give you joy, calms you or keeps you sane.
2018 was a rough year (especially in- er- political terms), and fandom has definitely been my haven. I can't zero in on a specific fandom, since I've been through quite a few, but it's been very important to remind myself that I can create and make connections with people who share my interests (both of which are difficult when I'm as stressed as I have been for the last couple of years).
I write and plan out a fair amount of original fiction- though my production has gone down over the last few years, because of the aforementioned stress- and I do love it, but writing fanfiction in particular remains my happy place. I like taking characters I already love and know other people love and putting them in different situations. I love playing with popular tropes. What I think I miss, when writing original fiction, is the feeling that it's a conversation. With the source material, with the readers, with the other people writing for that fandom, and with the people writing for other fandoms too. It's a process that means so much to me.
Happy new year! Here's hoping it's a good- and creative- one for everybody.
