I'm actually going to go and invalidate myself as a canon writer now ;)
Earlier this year I wrote a long long fic that took place in Season 9. I think it was my way of trying to keep on enjoying the show with a direction and characters I wasn't really sold on.
See, I do like Mitchell. I like his character. But he's inconsistent and it ticks me off. I never liked Vala so that's a different story.
Anyway, by writing a fic in Season 9 I felt like I could take control of the things I couldn't control. If I didn't like the direction things were heading, I could mess with it and make it "better." Maybe you can say that is the antithesis of canon. But I stuck to the canon of the show as much as I possibily could while trying to fix what I saw were inconsistencies and poor writing/plotting. I don't always succeed but it's all abut what I feel like afterward.
(And if I write Vala in Season 10, I can control how big of a role she has. Etc. Yes, it sounds silly, but I'm not 100% normal anyway. Heh.)
So I guess for me writing is theraputic in terms of my show obsession.
But I'm writing my own original stuff now, so the point is mostly moot, unless I write fanfic as a break.
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Date: 2006-08-27 12:42 am (UTC)Earlier this year I wrote a long long fic that took place in Season 9. I think it was my way of trying to keep on enjoying the show with a direction and characters I wasn't really sold on.
See, I do like Mitchell. I like his character. But he's inconsistent and it ticks me off. I never liked Vala so that's a different story.
Anyway, by writing a fic in Season 9 I felt like I could take control of the things I couldn't control. If I didn't like the direction things were heading, I could mess with it and make it "better." Maybe you can say that is the antithesis of canon. But I stuck to the canon of the show as much as I possibily could while trying to fix what I saw were inconsistencies and poor writing/plotting. I don't always succeed but it's all abut what I feel like afterward.
(And if I write Vala in Season 10, I can control how big of a role she has. Etc. Yes, it sounds silly, but I'm not 100% normal anyway. Heh.)
So I guess for me writing is theraputic in terms of my show obsession.
But I'm writing my own original stuff now, so the point is mostly moot, unless I write fanfic as a break.