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This question is for anyone who's ever written a fic who happens to read this!
Have you, like me, ever found yourself taken in with an idea for a fic or a scene within a fic you really like, only to later remember that there's an inconvenient canon detail, or a RL detail that's relevant to canon, which will make the idea as you first pictured it impossible?
Did you manage to rework the fic or scene to fit better in with canon? Did you decide to disregard the small detail because it's not in the end all that important? Or did you give up on the idea entirely and wrote a different fic or another scene instead?
An example: Recently I've had an idea for a ficlet which would depict a quiet scene between two former enemies, sharing something of themselves and trying to get used to being on the same side now. Since they're both Japanese and since I love bath scenes, plus I wanted a kind of semi-intimate vulnerability involved, I wanted to put the scene in a public bath. That's how it arrived in my head. With a different setting, the atmosphere would also be different, and it wouldn't feel like the same idea anymore.
But then I remembered that one of the characters was recently shot in the stomach in canon not long before when this scene would take place. These are ridiculously strong shonen characters who heal very fast, so if I wanted to I could probably get away with not mentioning the wound at all. But unfortunately that wound is relevant to their characterization and where the plot has taken them. In a scene where they're undressed, it would feel remiss of me not to mention it... but that means the wounded character wouldn't take a bath at all, especially not one shared with other people.
So I will either have to shelve that idea entirely or find a way to rework it, however I decide to do that. Unless I will disregard that canon fact after all and hope nobody notices.
What kind of experiences do you have with this?
Have you, like me, ever found yourself taken in with an idea for a fic or a scene within a fic you really like, only to later remember that there's an inconvenient canon detail, or a RL detail that's relevant to canon, which will make the idea as you first pictured it impossible?
Did you manage to rework the fic or scene to fit better in with canon? Did you decide to disregard the small detail because it's not in the end all that important? Or did you give up on the idea entirely and wrote a different fic or another scene instead?
An example: Recently I've had an idea for a ficlet which would depict a quiet scene between two former enemies, sharing something of themselves and trying to get used to being on the same side now. Since they're both Japanese and since I love bath scenes, plus I wanted a kind of semi-intimate vulnerability involved, I wanted to put the scene in a public bath. That's how it arrived in my head. With a different setting, the atmosphere would also be different, and it wouldn't feel like the same idea anymore.
But then I remembered that one of the characters was recently shot in the stomach in canon not long before when this scene would take place. These are ridiculously strong shonen characters who heal very fast, so if I wanted to I could probably get away with not mentioning the wound at all. But unfortunately that wound is relevant to their characterization and where the plot has taken them. In a scene where they're undressed, it would feel remiss of me not to mention it... but that means the wounded character wouldn't take a bath at all, especially not one shared with other people.
So I will either have to shelve that idea entirely or find a way to rework it, however I decide to do that. Unless I will disregard that canon fact after all and hope nobody notices.
What kind of experiences do you have with this?
