Megan's Musings

the reason i want to be a writer is because sometimes i consume a piece of media, a book or tv show or movie, and i am so overwhelmed by how it touches me. sometimes, there is a character or a story line that stays with me, consistently, far past after i’ve finished it, and i become enamored by the idea that someone out there, a writer, created this. a writer gave me this feeling and made me fall in love with something that they wrote. and i want to recreate that feeling for someone else.

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When cutting the scene Lucas also saw it and laughed so they added a noise to his head hitting the door.

The broom one really gets me XD How can you NOT know how a broom works?!

Literally any continuity “error” that involves Spock can be explained away by the fact that he is a fucking liar

*scandalized gasp*

My heart: *whispering* Do I really have to kill them? My brain: How are you going to make the story make sense otherwise?!

the worst part about reading ancient roman philosophy is that sometimes you’ll read something expressly saying that people shouldn’t do something that you do frequently and it’s like diogenes threw a plucked chicken at you from 2000 years ago

Ouch. This hits a little close to home ^^;;

One from the archives; What if you were, quite possibly, the last of your species?

#real #not to be salty but this is what ive been saying#like everyone out here really still acting like fanfic isnt really writing#like its subpar and like it cant be good and have amazing lines#even fanfic writers treat it like its LESS and like theyre PLAY writing and not actually writing#like friend buddy ican ASSURE YOU that fanfic is every bit as real and good as writing from books#the only difference between fic and actual books is that books go through several stages of processing and editing and filtering#and are worked on by professionals who studied the craft of editing#while fanfiction cuts that filtering and everyone gets a chance to be heard and to be read#and instead of editors we have peer editing and reviewing#dont be fucking tricked by the mass notion that anything that young girls and queer people are interested in is immediately bad and subpar#bc it is fucking not #i will FIGHT for it #fanfiction (tags by @crossroadswrite bacause they add so much to this post)

The real irony is there is plenty of fanfiction that goes through more rigorous editing than some published fiction. So the difference in quality between fanfiction and “professional writing” is totally arbitrary and made up. Except that some things that are more expensive are worse.

Fanfic has really raised my standards for what constitutes good writing.

I’m not sure why people think that fanfic writers don’t care about their work every bit as much as a writer writing original fiction. Maybe this perception comes from the fact that lots of people start out writing fanfic, and thus haven’t yet fully developed the skills to express their ideas in the way they want to. But that doesn’t mean everyone writing fanfic is at the early stages of learning the craft. Also, the only real difference between original fic and fanfic is that fanfic allows you to skip the world and character building process. It allows you to leap into a world that already has established rules and personalities and get straight to the act of telling a story. Some people find that incredibly appealing, especially since the people reading that fic are going to have at least a passing understanding of the lore body and character cast before they ever start reading. This allows both reader and writer to skip the establishing exposition that readers often find boring to read and writers often find frustrating to balance. In other words, both types of fiction have value, and both types can be either horrible train wrecks or beautifully polished bodies of work. This is why we have that old adage of not judging a story without having actually read it.

Seriously, can we stop glorifying children sacrificing their childhoods to survive? -.- Because it’s heartless and twisted that these stories have to exist in the first place.

I would add to this, it is a good idea to have at least a rudimentary idea of how people came to inhabit the places they do and why. Geography has a heavy influence on early societies - especially access to water, light and other critical resources. A culture’s history will heavily influence its social norms, just as change to access to resources is likely to cause social norms to shift (for the better or worse depending on whether access opens up or restricts).