[ SECRET POST #2681 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2681 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think this is a big thing for me as an artist (I also write fic for funsies, but I get paid for my art)--when someone commissions me to draw something for them, I know what they want because usually they know what they want: "Draw Spider-man!" "Draw the Fantastic Four fighting Galactus!" "Draw Daredevil and Deadpool eating burritos!"

I just don't get how that works in fic. I mean, I know it must, I guess, because I see prompts and things like that, but I feel like if somebody knows the story they want to read...then they already know</i the story. A picture is what it is, but a story has all these beats and scenes and how am I supposed to make that match up to what's in somebody's head, unless they already know it so well there's no point in writing? Which isn't to say that nobody could possibly get it. Just that I can't wrap my head around making that work. Works for some people. But I'd be annoyed either doing it or requesting it.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

The thing with prompts is that you leave it open for writers to interpret, and sometimes what comes back doesn't turn out to be something you really like.

One of the fun parts of prompting is seeing how people interpret the prompt, but you have to keep an open mind because they're not going to interpret it the same you (the prompter) thought it either.

[(Anonymous)]

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That just seems to me like it would make commissioning fic really risky for both the writer and the person making the commission. Do you get to ask for your money back if what they write isn't something you really like, or are you stuck being out money for a product you aren't happy with?

I mean, the few times I've commissioned art, the artist has sent me the rough sketch before they started inking and coloring it to ask for my approval, so if there was something I wasn't quite satisfied with, I could tell them and they would fix it. I don't see how that would work with fic.

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Oh I agree with you on that, fics seem like a far more precarious result than fanart.

I've only had one commission I've made, and I let the artist work without input, but I'd seen photos of her work and though one of the two I asked for she had to research, she did spectacularly.

The part that I think seperates fanart and fanfic is absorption. Look at a piece of fanart - even 3D pieces - and it's instant absorption. Fanfic? Takes time to read, has unexpected plot turns or slow bits... I have given up on a fic that gets bogged in slow bits.

[(Anonymous)]

That too. There have also been times where I've liked the overall plot of a story but not the execution and vice versa. Fic just seems on the whole to be so much more subjective than art.