Yeah, that's kind of what I was getting at, in terms of the type of fic I write, but I think it's also just about having a different mindset towards fic.
Even when it's a fic that lines up with canon, my mindset is that you're starting over fresh - the story can go anywhere it wants to, and you're not bound by anything except canon. There's no one right answer when it comes to fanfic, so there's no "oh, I can't do this because I already wrote that in a different story." You can easily have two different fics that both line up with canon but not with each other. Especially future fics, since they're just as much "up until now it's canon, but from here on out, anything goes" stories, since there's no canon on the other end that it needs to fit.
And from your description, it seems like that's what you do - you've obviously not tried to constrain yourself to what you've already written, or you wouldn't have so many contradictions. It's just kinda funny to me that you did it despite having a different mindset about what you were writing.
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Date: 2009-11-07 02:48 pm (UTC)Even when it's a fic that lines up with canon, my mindset is that you're starting over fresh - the story can go anywhere it wants to, and you're not bound by anything except canon. There's no one right answer when it comes to fanfic, so there's no "oh, I can't do this because I already wrote that in a different story." You can easily have two different fics that both line up with canon but not with each other. Especially future fics, since they're just as much "up until now it's canon, but from here on out, anything goes" stories, since there's no canon on the other end that it needs to fit.
And from your description, it seems like that's what you do - you've obviously not tried to constrain yourself to what you've already written, or you wouldn't have so many contradictions. It's just kinda funny to me that you did it despite having a different mindset about what you were writing.