Welcome to the Wattpad Block Party - Winter Edition III!
Round FIVE of this popular event is coming your way the entire month of February 2017 and it's going to be epic! The invites have started to roll out and everyone from your all time favo...
First let me just thank Kelly Anne for having me back for another Wattpad Block Party. I'm honored to be here and I hope you all like this look into my fandom-warped brain!
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A friend of mine has a saying for when something affects you so much, when it leaves such an incredible impression: moving in. Books move in. Movies move in. People move in. What better way to describe fandom and the fanfiction we're driven to write?
Fanfiction is where I started writing. It's world building and character development with training wheels. I already had something to start from with fanfiction. As a fan I built up from that base and created something myself. I'm so incredibly grateful that the creators of my fandoms allowed me to come in and play with their toys.
What started as a way of learning to write turned into a fun release. Something that I could purge out of my head and play around in when I'm working on something else that actually feels like work. I could flesh out characters that didn't have a lot of canon to fall back on, or even if they did I could shove them down a new path and make them react in ways not even thought of in canon. Or maybe it's just a bit of fluff and who doesn't love fluff every once in a while?
There's a fan for every ship, every kink, every plot, character, situation. There are purists who refuse to meander away from canon and have a very narrow idea of what canon is (even more prevalent in a fandom that isn't thoroughly developed), and you have the fans that view the world as their playground. What happens if this character is actually x? What if this event in the story never happened? What if the story were actually set in space?
The only boundaries in fanfiction are those set by a person's imagination and that's why I love it so much. My fandoms are The Lost Boys (1987 vampire movie), Labyrinth, Supernatural, and Harry Potter (I'll get to Divergent in a minute). I've written fics for all of these worlds.
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The Lost Boys is my first love and my Changing Light series (Hunted, And Then There Were Two, Rage Against the Dying of the Night) are all here on Wattpad. I wanted a pretty solid IC story (in character, for those not familiar with the lingo) that tried to emulate the tone of the movie (80s pseudo-horror-camp) and where I could develop characters that had next to no background or character development (all four vampires). When you're working with a 90 minute movie and the characters you want to write have roughly 13 minutes of screen time total (and that's being generous), there's a lot of wiggle room there (although some would beg to differ but that's an argument for another day). So I took what I saw on screen and blossomed it out. I backed into histories, I played with personalities. I tried to give them more than just pretty faces.
The world has tried to expand over the more recent years, but it's been done poorly and the fandom has largely rejected the movie's sequels and comic spin-offs. The only external piece of canon people seem to regularly rely on is the book based on the movie, but good luck finding a copy for under $100 (literally).
