More than I wanted to know? No way -- this is the kind of thing that makes me do a little happy dance of fannish geekery. *g*
Writing that story definitely felt different. For one thing, I think my writing's improved in the six years since I first started writing fanfiction; for another, I've read far more widely now than I had then, so my sense of what's possible is greater. (Which is not to say that my Sentinel story for the cliche challenge did anything new or interesting; it was more-or-less what I used to write, e.g. a mildly angsty first time with a happy ending. But, I dunno, I have a broader sense of the context in which my happy little first-time stories exist, I guess.)
I think a lot about having become (more) multifannish -- I mean, I'm not a true fannish butterfly, but I've got about a dozen fandoms now I think, and that was a huge leap for me, a paradigm shift if you will. It happened around the same time that lj became a big fannish phenomenon, and I think a lot about what that means -- whether I became polyfannish because I was now following my friends (regardless of where they went, fandom-wise) instead of following one show at a time, or because I was somehow fannishly mature enough to take that leap. Anyway, I think that whole train of thought dovetails with what you're saying about style -- as my circle of fannish friends started to move from Sentinel into other fandoms, their writing changed in subtle ways (new characters; new voices; but also new influences) and I think we continue to influence each other as we read what our friends (and strangers) write in the new fandoms we fall into.
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Writing that story definitely felt different. For one thing, I think my writing's improved in the six years since I first started writing fanfiction; for another, I've read far more widely now than I had then, so my sense of what's possible is greater. (Which is not to say that my Sentinel story for the cliche challenge did anything new or interesting; it was more-or-less what I used to write, e.g. a mildly angsty first time with a happy ending. But, I dunno, I have a broader sense of the context in which my happy little first-time stories exist, I guess.)
I think a lot about having become (more) multifannish -- I mean, I'm not a true fannish butterfly, but I've got about a dozen fandoms now I think, and that was a huge leap for me, a paradigm shift if you will. It happened around the same time that lj became a big fannish phenomenon, and I think a lot about what that means -- whether I became polyfannish because I was now following my friends (regardless of where they went, fandom-wise) instead of following one show at a time, or because I was somehow fannishly mature enough to take that leap. Anyway, I think that whole train of thought dovetails with what you're saying about style -- as my circle of fannish friends started to move from Sentinel into other fandoms, their writing changed in subtle ways (new characters; new voices; but also new influences) and I think we continue to influence each other as we read what our friends (and strangers) write in the new fandoms we fall into.
Anyway. Big geek here. Whee!