Weekly Fic Discussion

[lachrymosy]

(Bi)Weekly Fic Discussion

Welcome back to our (every other) Weekly Fic Discussion post!

This post can be used for any kind of fic discussion you want, but there are also a few prompt questions each week. You can reply to all of them, one of them, or none of them if you have something else you want to talk about!

Feel free to post WIP snippets, ask others' opinion on characterization, share a clip that has broken your brain, etc.!

This discussion's prompt questions:

• Technique discussion! Is there a risk you've taken with your writing technique/style for a fic that you felt paid off?


• Similarly, are there any fics you've seen that used an unexpected or unique writing style? What do you think worked well in those cases?

Comments

[aceaceaceace]

I like trying out new things, but it's usually not so dramatic that I think people besides me would notice. Style wise, I've recently been pushing myself to try more for humor, and I think I have managed to get a little funnier than I used to be. Technique wise, I really like experimenting with how I approach time in a fic. I've done fics that span ~15 years, and I've done fics that drill down into a singular day, and both require very different styles and tools, imo. Right now, I'm got two WIPs that are pushing how I explore time even further (a time loop fic and a non-linear fic with past and present story threads.) They've been fun challenges to work on, but I can only hope my efforts pay off in the end...

An experimental fic that's been on my mind recently is This Time by preciouslittletime. It's a Seventeen Seokmin/Jeonghan fic that explores the same day in two different universes for the ship, connected by a vivid dreamscape. The execution of it all was just perfect to me, such a well-crafted story with gorgeous prose. https://archiveofourown.org/works/39121845

[moriendum]

"I've done fics that span ~15 years, and I've done fics that drill down into a singular day, and both require very different styles and tools, imo."

oh I agree! it's awesome that you can do both, in my head that takes skill. like, a story that spans 15 years? wow.