Discussion You Know You're a Fan Fiction Writer When...

...when you find yourself writing plot ideas down when you should be paying attention + taking notes on a lecture.

 

I'm guilty of this with one of my supporting characters, except I have to look her last name up in a three-year-old post. It's probably past time that I made a note of it in my notes file.

 

I've done this in business meetings.

 

As is mine. I think at least a few of my characters have names that I pronounce two different ways and keep those pronunciations as the official headcanon. May as well cover my bases.

 

YKYAFFWW... you spend 15 minutes typing out four related observations for this thread, only to realize that they contain major spoilers for your story that can't be avoided, so you instead cut and paste them into a text file to save them for when the spoilers have been properly revealed.

 

I was dreaming of fan fic again last night. Han,Leia, Luke and my OC, Princess Clarys, became part of an Ocean's Eleven type caper, (complete with slicer and breaking-and-entering specialists named Zapp and Jigsaw.....do they even have jigsaws in the GFFA?) when suddenly it turned into a musical. I woke up as I was furiously writing down lyrics in my dream.

.....YKYAFFWW you wonder if there's anything in these dreams you can use (in this case, the answer is no )

 

...you start to write your fanfiction during the down times you have at work.

 

...when I'm multitasking data entry and dialogue snippets on Notepad (that'll be printed out at the end of the day and stuffed in my work bag in an ever-increasing pile). Stang it, bunnies, can't you wait?!!

 

ThreadSketch: I think you'll find the answer to that question in your avatar image.

 

... when you construct a Star Wars vehicle a propos to your current fanfic ... out of Legos. It is not aerodynamic enough to set down onplanet, however.

 

When you go to write a simple scene and it gets exponentially more complicated.

 

Don't say that. I'm on "writing an exponentially complicated chapter that becomes a book." or , I'm not sure

 

YKYAFFWW...

 

When you accidently use the word "Kriffing" in real life.

Actually, I was writing a chapter of my current fanfic once when my cat tried to jump on my computer. I said "Get down, Barriss!"

(For the record, no, my cat's name is not Barriss.)

 

I use Star Wars swears in real life. No shame there.

 

Or when you start talking like your characters without realizing it, like using certain phrases or inflections or things like that. Not that I've ever done that...

Also, YKYAFFW when you are reading a novel for school, and one of the characters has the same name as a character in one of your fandoms, and so you keep getting plot bunnies and can't take the book seriously at all.

 

YKYAFFWW...

...someone following your RPs with another person makes a crack!ship of your characters and you decide to run with it.

This is the first time this has happened to me. I'm loving every minute of the insanity.

 

...when you're helped out of writer's block by a thread devoted to crazy plot ideas. (Five hundred words? Drabble set!)

 

When you are watching something and decide that such and such character would be fun to use in a crossover. Admit it that Hondo the pirate would be be a great character for some crew from Star Trek to meet. Preferably Enterprise D or Voyager.

 

...you are looking into stuff about pregnancy and c-section because one of your characters is pregnant and you want to make it realistic.

Poor Lavinnia the Hypno. Half of the Lavendy crack!ship. She is now pregnant. I have seriously never expected her character to go in that direction. Thank you, That Certain Shipper.

 

....when the crazy plot bunny you never intended to write gets some likes in the crazy plot bunny thread, and suddenly you start thinking of ways you could make it work....

 

YKYAFFWW...

Person:What are your hobbies?
Me:Shipping two characters together and imagining them in different situations
Person:What
Me:What