The Force Always Says Yes [Star Wars]

[torac]

I really like your explanations. It's great to learn more of the thought process and themes behind the story, and it is enjoyable to see you so invested in this.

 

[Hyenanon]

I really want a conversation between her and Nerim. Well, her and an bunch of your people! With Chey-Linn, about darkness, and falling, and perhaps, the things that make them different, with Nerim, and him offering her a willing ear to help her become more than she is, with Jianno about how the Mandalorian Way helps her, and how she lost everything it could help her with.....


I can just see "Kiseti" hiring Jianno with some stash of stuff, to go and get some info about her past, and save or kill, based on what was found.


There's something about a interesting bad guy who dies with so much left to say.

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In an alternate timeline where things were just a little bit different, Darth Carrion could have perhaps been captured. To return her to a verbal state, even turn her to the Light, would be a titanic undertaking. It would be something interesting to explore.

I really like your explanations. It's great to learn more of the thought process and themes behind the story, and it is enjoyable to see you so invested in this.

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Thank you! TFASY has been one of the most fun pieces of fiction I've ever worked on, for a lot of reasons, ranging from the genre to the upload schedule and venue to the simple fact that I just really like these characters. One of the biggest reasons is just that I've learned a fair few new things from writing the story, and I've come across old challenges I've struggled with for a long time and felt progress in how I deal with them now. In a way it's kinda like going back to the starting area of Dark Souls after you've leveled up and become proficient at all the mechanics. It's just kind of a joy for things that were once very difficult to become easy.

I don't think I've ever publicly admitted this, but several years ago I went through a somewhat angsty period where I felt as though my chosen form of art, narrative fiction in the written word, was kind of the least of all the arts. Not just least appreciated but also least impressive in a more objective sense. It's easy to see sculpting or guitar playing as an art because you can see the artist performing feats of manual dexterity and intuitively know that you don't have that. But anyone can look at what I do and see that fundamentally I'm just using written language, which is something just about everyone can do, and so people don't understand that I've cultivated skills in a comperable way to other artists. This combined with general shrinking of the book reading population lead me to a morose state where I felt as though it was rather pointless to continue writing narrative fiction. I even took up 3D modeling for a time, less out of interest for the process and more just as a sort of venting.

It was around the time that I was recovering from that moroseness that I began work on TFASY, since, having been adequately humbled, I was then willing to work on "lesser" forms of art like fanfiction, which I never before had viewed pejoratively myself, but I understood that I would never be seen as a "real" author working on fanfiction, so I never attempted it, since I felt the need to continue producing original novels in order to become a "real" author. Having been somewhat knocked away from the idea of "real" authorship or general recognition in the first place, it seemed harmless to give it a shot. I'm really glad I did. There's a great deal to learn from it, and a unique sort of joy in working collaboratively with other authors across time.

 

[Simonbob]

"lesser" forms of art like fanfiction,

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In a sense, Fanfiction is easier than something original, because so much is already created for you.

In a sense, Fanfiction is harder, because you have to match what is already created, or why call it Fanfiction at all?



I've heard Fanfiction called "Lesser", and always though they didn't understand what they were talking about.

 

[TroubleFait]

Aren't the Illiad and Odyssey a form of fanfiction, along with every piece of mythological fiction? In the end, fanfiction will be as ambitious as the author wants it to be. It being a lesser art form is due to the easier barrier of entry attracting many people who don't aim for more. It's a statistical fact, not a fundamental one.