[Feb 2014] Fanfic - Discussion Thread

[G_R_Matthews]

I used to write fan-fic as part of a Yahoo group Star-Trek RPG - USS Chesapeake was our ship and many adventures did we have Long time ago now but a good way to develop a writing habit.

[G_R_Matthews]

A nice Jorg story there TO

[TOMunro]

Thanks GR - it was fun to write, snatching a few paragraphs here and there in the midst of a massive weekend house tidy.  I wasn't sure I was going to enter this month, but then the idea came to me and it flowed fairly easily from there!

Another month with a good field

[M_P_Xavier]

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[G_R_Matthews]

Interesting... what is the short story?

[M_P_Xavier]

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[G_R_Matthews]

So, basically, its Greg Bear Fan-fic? Think that covers the parameters of the competition

[xiagan]

I'm okay with that. It's strange to have a short story set in the world of another short story but why not?

[Fellshot]

By some miracle I actually finished a short set in a completely different universe than I usually write. The downside is that as odd as the short is, Welcome to Nightvale is definitely weirder and I don't think I captured that at all.

[TOMunro]

@Fellshot,  my daughter loves "Welcome to Nightvale" I will point her in the direction of this thread.

[ACSmyth]

This is hard to judge. I'm not familiar with most of the originals, so it's difficult to know how well character voices, etc. have been captured. Ah, well. I've chosen one.

[G_R_Matthews]

I agree, even though I wrote one, that its hard to judge this month! So many entries picked off-piste books or short stories. I'm going to go with my tried and trusted method - The one I enjoyed the most! Picked and voted.

Good luck to everyone...

Let's see if we can get the vote count up past 11! Twitter here I come! (42 followers isn't going to make much a difference but its a start)

[ACSmyth]

Ack, no. Let's not go the Twitter route. Then it becomes a popularity contest.

I did a few shorts on here a couple of years ago (different name - changed emails, lost PW, usual stuff) and someone was pimping his/her story on Twitter. It kind of put me off a bit, as no one else was doing it, and then it did become a question of whose family and friends signed up to vote.

For the record, I do it for practice as I'm not good at short stories. I'm better at 100K+ LOL! It's nice to get the odd vote of confidence, but I'm not going to go hassling friends to vote for me, and if I don't get any votes (like the previous couple of months), I'm not going to be butthurt.

[G_R_Matthews]

I just encourage folks (all 42 of them) to vote... not necessarily to vote for me

[Fellshot]

This is hard to judge. I'm not familiar with most of the originals, so it's difficult to know how well character voices, etc. have been captured. Ah, well. I've chosen one.

Ha, and here I thought that the very best fanfic raises the bar for the original material.