Popularity vs Inspiration

[extrapenguin]

Does anyone else feel like they have much more creation-energy (writing fic, meta, etc) for rare canons and rarepairs than for juggernauts? I keep thinking I should post some sorta-meta for Star Wars, but keep putting it off, and while I do ship Obi-Wan/Anakin* I have written a grand total of zero fics for that. Meanwhile my current favorite pool noodle of a ship, Anakin/Mace, has 6 things I have contributed to the tag and I actually have further ideas for that. IDK. It's like the more popular something is, the more likely I am to go "eh, that's been done already" and go think about something else. This is probably related to me not liking to repeat myself thematically/plotwise – there are themes and such I return to, but I have so many ideas, I'd rather write something that I haven't already written a form of.

* As a side note, I hate the smushname. In this age of fictionkin, every time I see Obikin I have a moment of panic of the "oh no, does this person believe they are Obi-Wan Kenobi on the astral plane?" sort.

Comments

[shadaras]

Oh, definitely. It's part of why I've mostly been getting into small fandoms lately, and a little bit why I don't actually browse fic in the larger/more active fandoms I'm into? Like, for those either I can create works or I can read them, but it's hard to do both.

[extrapenguin]

Huh – it's never that bad for me. I had no trouble reading in Guardian, for example, even if the writing bug did cut into my reading time immensely. Can you write for a ship/character even if you're reading elsewhere in the fandom, or is it the whole fandom that has to be one or the other?

[shadaras]

It's more like I don't think to go looking than that I am incapable of it. xD If someone sticks recs in front of my face, it's pretty likely I'll check them out, but I don't think to see what's out there when I'm thinking about what I want to make for the fandom.