A quote (look! fanfic IS training!)

[sff_corgi_lj]

Whatever you write, don’t fake it. Find a way to mean it.
Advice on being staff: The person who created the show
has given you a template. Don’t resist that voice. Give in
to the idea that a huge part of your job is mimicry. Find a
way to insert your own idea’s voice within the laws of
that universe. Most of the advice I’ve gotten on writing
from the excellent showrunners I’ve worked with (Josh
Brand, David Chase) has been between the lines. Learn
to read between the lines. And the best between-the lines
advice I’ve ever gotten was: Be fearless. And don’t
think of the audience as “the other.” You are the audience.
Impress and entertain yourself.
                                                            —Barbara Hall

(from here)

Comments

[blueeyedtigress.livejournal.com]

Very cool. I like that -- it vindicates so much .... 8D

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

And it's just like what in_the_blue always says about writing at Milliways, too.

[nakedkali.livejournal.com]

This is pretty good, and kinda describes my experience with art classes, too.

Who is Barbara Hall?

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

I believe these are the correct credits....

(Drat, she's only a year older than me! :/ )

[nakedkali.livejournal.com]

Aha! The writer for Joan of Arcadia! I love that show. It was better by far than all of the myriad other "mysteriously granted powers young women shows" that all came on TV at that time.

Have you see or heard anything of Ultra?

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

The main difference between fanfic and staff writing is who pays for the paper and ink. [grin] I've seen Star Trek episodes that failed to capture the characters correctly and fanfics that succeeded, haven't you?

There is nothing wrong with practice. David Gerrold, in his writing class that I have taken, says that "The first million words are practice. You may sell the practice pieces, but they are still practice." The more I write, the more I think he is correct.

Well hell's bells. Misty Lackey and Lois McMaster started in fanfic, after all.

[blueeyedtigress.livejournal.com]

Re: Misty and Lois -- hellyeah. I know pros who write online fanfic, too, just to keep polishing their craft, their use of words ...

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Dare I mention Melissa Good? *sigh of abortive envy*

[zahdi.livejournal.com]

Hmmmmm *crosses arms, nods head*

M-hm. M-hm.

*pushes up glasses, deeply thinking.*


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