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puddingsmith ([personal profile] hope) wrote2009-03-29 07:06 pm

boom.

All my Torchwood fic ideas are AUs. Ranging from "plot point X turned left instead of right" through to parallel universe where some major things are different but still generally the same, to the usual crack cliche AUs that I'm so fond of, to complete AUs where they're not Torchwood at all.

Still pondering why this is the case for me with this fandom. Though I think it's in part to do with the sabotaging-myself-by-reading-too-much thing. I always want to write something *different*, exploring something that I've read someone else (or a million someones) explore can't hold my attention. Where's the motivation?

So anyway, I've finished my circus!Torchwood AU, which was supposed to be part of a set of Five Teams Torchwood Never Was. Only my document of "stories I must write!" have like, ten other plot bunnies raring to go in there. And the [livejournal.com profile] tardis_bigbang one is the least inspiring of all, right now. Sigh.

20,000 words really isn't all that much, in the scale of things. I mean, the circus one is about 4,000 words already! But it's hard to tell what idea can go long distance until I'm in there writing.

I'm tempted to set myself personal goals (eg. 20,000 words of fic in total by June?) instead of big banging. But perhaps I'm just being noncommittal because as usual, there's less chance of failure there *g*

But hey, it's fanfiction. It's meant to be fun.* I should be taking advantage of the opportunities for fun while I still can! So I'm going to write the most demanding/inspiring/exciting one, next. Damn all other arguments of structure.


* where fun =/= meaningless, but rather fun = something that gives me joy.