The muse

[brainofck]

Her Royal Highness ponders the nature of writing as an ongoing process.

It's funny, I recently made the same anology to falling in love. This whole Avengers thing has had that feel to it, that can't-read-fast-enough, can't-stop-thinking-about-it feeling, like a new crush. I remember it with my two previous fandoms - my serious fandoms, not my brief fandom friendships and flirtations - and also, I am having the same feeling that I am betraying my old fandom with the new one.

I'm a serial monogamist. I fought so hard not to lose LOTR RPS, but I haven't had a real thought about it in years, despite still-lingering guilt about Throw Away. I'm having the same feeling of SG-1 slipping through my fingers. And the same feeling of resistance to writing in the new fandom that I had when LOTR was slipping away.

It makes me think about muses again. Not only do stories seem to write themselves, but also writing can feel like a relationship with a person.

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[princessofgeeks]

It's funny how writing is this odd mix of what's under your control and what isn't.

I wrote journalism for years, and that was very much under my control; very thinky and logical.

Fiction is so not like that.

And yet, you still have to get your butt in the chair and give yourself goals or it's so easy to dither.

I hear you on changing fandoms. Back in LOTR, I had no idea changing fandoms was ever possible for me. I'm not looking forward to the day that I leave SG1 behind forever, but I suppose it's bound to happen.

I fell in love with Due South with that same intensity, but I don't want to write it!

So I don't know. Never say never, is all I've learned.

Thank you for being here, and thank goodness I can read Avengers if you write it! I was sad when so many SGA people went to Supernatural, a fandom I just can't get into though I tried.

So it's nice to still share fandoms.

*hugs*

[brainofck]

you still have to get your butt in the chair

Isn't that the truth! :)

Yes, Supernatural is woe. Two of my virtual besties went over and I feel a certain amount of sadness (and yes, guilt! Jeez!) that I don't support them as a reader the way I should! It makes me feel like a bad friend. :(

[princessofgeeks]

LOL, I am so cold hearted compared to you. I have no guilt. If I can possibly get into the fandom to support a friend, I'll try it. But Supernatural was so not for me. In any way.

And it took me a long long time to warm up to SGA, and I still don't really get it the way some of its hardcore fans do. My heart is totes given to the original show.

I watched BBC Sherlock just because it was clearly becoming the shiny new thing, but it left me cold. Basically sent me back to the books.

And then Avengers! I love Avengers movie verse and thank goodness there are people writing the stuff I want to read. But Thor/Loki and Bruce/Tony seem to be fandom favorites, and I'm more interested in Tony/Steve, Natasha/Clint and Clint/Phil. Not exactly rare pairings, but not what fandom's taken off with either.

But I highly doubt I'll ever write Avengers either.

All my plot bunnies these days are SG1 and orig fic.

But when White Collar comes back on, that's a possibility. And I'm inhaling Legend of the Seeker right now. I already thought of a fusion with that verse and SG1, lol.

Two other fandoms I adore but that I don't really read much in are Firefly and Burn Notice.

So I have no idea how it all works.

I'm just glad to be writing again.

[brainofck]

Ha! Let me tell you, I have had NO TROUBLE wasting hours reading Steve/Tony. So I dunno - fandom sweethearts or not... :D

I am really trying NOT to write Avengers, because if it did to my time what SG-1 did, I could not try to pursue my new romance with original fic. That is where I need to get butt to meet chair. I think the problem has been that there is a lot of pre-work that I am still doing on the original work - like, for instance, I know sort of who I want the bad guys to be, but I needed to do a fair amount of research and thinking to know who they are going to be *exactly.* I finally did some of that, and I can feel the push now to do MORE of it. In so many ways, fanfic is just easier. The heavy lifting is done. Plot/smut can happen almost instantly.

Haha! Avengers is the hot, slutty guy I picked up at a bar. Original fic is the shy (possibly needy and codependent guy) that I'm trying to impress so I can meet his family.

:D

OMG, Legend of the Seeker and SG-1? *fears*

I don't know what imput I have about how we adopt fandoms. (I do know for slash to work for me, it needs to have seeds in canon, and also I can't buy into incest, no matter how pretty the participants would be.) But because of my RL issues, I actively attempt to control my reading on the computer, so I often actively avoid logical-for-me fandoms, like Burn Notice and Firefly and Farscape. I just don't have the time to be having these fandom crushes constantly!

[princessofgeeks]

so many fandoms; so little time....

[brainofck]

I have been considering the appeal of Steve/Tony to someone whose SG-1 OTP is Jack/Daniel.

[princessofgeeks]

I like movie verse Steve/Tony very much, but not in the same way I like Jack and Daniel. But others may differ.

[spyderqueen]

Well for this Jack/Daniel shipper who became a huge Steve/Tony shipper, I see a lot of the same "broken and lonely" dynamic where these two people are exactly what they need to fix each other.