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30 Days of Fan Fiction Meme, Day 12
Jul. 10th, 2011 11:28 pm12 – Have you ever attempted an "adaptation" fic of a favorite book or movie but set in a different fandom?
If I understand the question, I have only done this in translating fan fic ideas into original fic. I guess I feel that if it's worth the trouble of "recasting" characters with new names, places, whatever, I might as well be able to get the cred for doing "original" work. My adventures in fic-to-original adaptation usually progress away from fandom resemblance toward greater originality as I go through drafts (I hope). Fandoms I have used as fairly close models for original ideas or characters include:
* Blake's 7
* Star Wars
* various Star Trek: Next Gen-era shows
* The Lord of the Rings (well, who hasn't?)
* The Mahabharata (feels weird to call that a fandom)
* My only real RPF "fandom": the life of T. E. Lawrence
* Tiny bits of Les Misérables, if I go way back.
My most shameless of these, and one I'm generally quite proud of, is my composite of LotR, the Mahabharata, and the life of TEL. It's about half done in draft form and currently on hold, but I honestly think it could be one of my better originals. Oh, it also has a tiny bit of Abelard and Heloise.
But the fact that Ghanior's life almost exactly parallels Dream's is purely archetypal. I wrote my first Ghanior novel before I ever cracked the cover of The Sandman.
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If I understand the question, I have only done this in translating fan fic ideas into original fic. I guess I feel that if it's worth the trouble of "recasting" characters with new names, places, whatever, I might as well be able to get the cred for doing "original" work. My adventures in fic-to-original adaptation usually progress away from fandom resemblance toward greater originality as I go through drafts (I hope). Fandoms I have used as fairly close models for original ideas or characters include:
* Blake's 7
* Star Wars
* various Star Trek: Next Gen-era shows
* The Lord of the Rings (well, who hasn't?)
* The Mahabharata (feels weird to call that a fandom)
* My only real RPF "fandom": the life of T. E. Lawrence
* Tiny bits of Les Misérables, if I go way back.
My most shameless of these, and one I'm generally quite proud of, is my composite of LotR, the Mahabharata, and the life of TEL. It's about half done in draft form and currently on hold, but I honestly think it could be one of my better originals. Oh, it also has a tiny bit of Abelard and Heloise.
But the fact that Ghanior's life almost exactly parallels Dream's is purely archetypal. I wrote my first Ghanior novel before I ever cracked the cover of The Sandman.
( Rest of the Questions )
