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Re: DNW Workshop

[(Anonymous)]

Ha, yeah. Not sure how to react to a "no mimicking the canon style" DNW when a number of the book canons I offer in Yuletide are actually beloved childhood faves that massively influenced the development of my own writing style. "Just write it in your own natural voice, don't try to sound anything like the canon," you say? Um...

Re: DNW Workshop

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah it's like, actuslly the reason I love this canons and always offer it is because the original author writes very much the way I wish I could! (And occasionally people tell me I achieved it.) Like it's not that I'm slavishly imitating them, it's that I love the canon because it's like something I'd write.

(Also I think the people arguing about the question of more of canon/different from canon are missing the point that even if what I want in cql fic is something wildly creative and form defying, this is yuletide, yuletide has always been the exchange for 'i want more like canon in this tiny fandom with no fic".)

Re: DNW Workshop

[(Anonymous)]

yuletide has always been the exchange for 'i want more like canon in this tiny fandom with no fic"

Yuletide has also always been the exchange for taking the fanfic in a wildly different direction than canon. These two things can coexist - not in the same fic, obviously, but certainly in the same event.

Re: DNW Workshop

[(Anonymous)]

+1

Don't spin yourself into such an anxiety circle over a DNW you don't like that you wind up forgetting that asking for totally out there interpretations of small fandoms is actually completely fine and very common.

Re: DNW Workshop

[(Anonymous)]

This. I can see how getting blindsided over a DNW like that would make things difficult for some authors (which is also true for a number of other DNWs), but if you see a letter with that DNW and know it'll give you trouble, do the same as you would with any other DNW that interferes with your view of canon and what you can write: accept that you're a bad match and unoffer the fandom (or prepare to default if you get matched to it).