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I feel it a kind of torture (though not in the extreme sense) when something you like is used for something you don't like. For example, a good song used in a dumb show.
Or when a favorite something - a description, a method of whump, a concept - is used in a less than favorable way (or, in other words, not used on/for your favorite character/kind of character), whether in fanfiction, original fiction or even a show. I find that the torment (or, more accurately annoyance), for me, lies in trying to remedy said torment/annoyance by writing a story involving the thing I like.
Except writing your own story just isn't the same, because it's yours. And because it's yours, you're never quite happy with it. You want to read of that favorite thing happening to your favorite character in someone else's story, or actually see it on the show. In turn, it sometimes becomes a distraction as you wrack your brain for an idea involving that favorite thing, but end up with ideas that either feel like copying what had caused the annoyance in the first place, or a plot you absolutely despise.
Although, I will admit, wanting to see/read a favorite thing in a way that I liked eventually led to my first published book *shrugs*. So there is merit to it. I just hate getting obsessed over it, especially when I'm trying to work on other things.
Or when a favorite something - a description, a method of whump, a concept - is used in a less than favorable way (or, in other words, not used on/for your favorite character/kind of character), whether in fanfiction, original fiction or even a show. I find that the torment (or, more accurately annoyance), for me, lies in trying to remedy said torment/annoyance by writing a story involving the thing I like.
Except writing your own story just isn't the same, because it's yours. And because it's yours, you're never quite happy with it. You want to read of that favorite thing happening to your favorite character in someone else's story, or actually see it on the show. In turn, it sometimes becomes a distraction as you wrack your brain for an idea involving that favorite thing, but end up with ideas that either feel like copying what had caused the annoyance in the first place, or a plot you absolutely despise.
Although, I will admit, wanting to see/read a favorite thing in a way that I liked eventually led to my first published book *shrugs*. So there is merit to it. I just hate getting obsessed over it, especially when I'm trying to work on other things.
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Date: 2009-02-03 05:43 pm (UTC)From:95% of my Tolkien fic was written to counter something that bugged me either in fanfic or in canon, but writing it for myself isn't the same enjoying it in a story written by someone else.
I suspect I'd write more SGA fiction if there weren't a lovely handful of authors who write what I want to read, thereby making it unnecessary for me to do it myself, for the most part. ;)
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Date: 2009-02-03 09:22 pm (UTC)From:My problem is I've reached that point where there are particular things I want to read of. For example, slave fic, because it has a lot of great whump potential. However, slave stories aren't all that popular among the Gen crowd, so they tend to be few and far between.
My bigger problem, though, are stories that thus far have hit every one of my squee buttons. Yet just when the story is about to enter the comfort part, the updates stop. That drives me crazy, because I end up wanting to explore the same concept and finish where the writer left off, but can't for the above mentioned reasons.