30 days of fanfiction 13/30

13 – Do you prefer canon or fanon when you write? Has writing fanfic for a fandom changed the way you see some or even all of the original source material?

Umm... another case of 'I'm not really getting the question'. Isn't fanfic fanon by default? I mean, you can't write canon unless you're writing for something like Sherlock Holmes (see you tomorrow people) and while I will one day work on that Holmes haitus fic where he takes Watson with him, I'm busy procrastinating as present and enjoying 'new fandom nerves'.

I suppose the main way fanfic changed my view of canons is by giving me higher standards. HBP and DH were twice as irritating when I'd seen it done miles better by people who weren't even being paid for it let alone had access to professional editors. It's like a bar marked 'please surpass this standard'. I'll accept certain things in fanfiction (like typos or weird tense) because they're writing somethign I want. The best thing about fanfiction is getting a story you want, it's the main reason I never totally left the HP fandom because of the sheer range of stories out there. But actually published fiction is supposed to go above and beyond that, pushing new boundries while fanfiction stays behind and fleshes out the world. I know it's not the rule in every case but that's how it works for me. And it's why the later HP books and the Twilight series have never appealed.

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30 days of fanfiction 13/30

13 – Do you prefer canon or fanon when you write? Has writing fanfic for a fandom changed the way you see some or even all of the original source material?

Umm... another case of 'I'm not really getting the question'. Isn't fanfic fanon by default? I mean, you can't write canon unless you're writing for something like Sherlock Holmes (see you tomorrow people) and while I will one day work on that Holmes haitus fic where he takes Watson with him, I'm busy procrastinating as present and enjoying 'new fandom nerves'.

I suppose the main way fanfic changed my view of canons is by giving me higher standards. HBP and DH were twice as irritating when I'd seen it done miles better by people who weren't even being paid for it let alone had access to professional editors. It's like a bar marked 'please surpass this standard'. I'll accept certain things in fanfiction (like typos or weird tense) because they're writing somethign I want. The best thing about fanfiction is getting a story you want, it's the main reason I never totally left the HP fandom because of the sheer range of stories out there. But actually published fiction is supposed to go above and beyond that, pushing new boundries while fanfiction stays behind and fleshes out the world. I know it's not the rule in every case but that's how it works for me. And it's why the later HP books and the Twilight series have never appealed.

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