just a thought.

[kippurbird]

So, what does it say about a person who writes a story about a fan girl who falls into the author's fantasy world, which is the fan girl's favorite books. Which said author hasn't published yet, but clearly in the fan girl's world they have been?

Comments

[pandoras-closet.livejournal.com]

I highly suggest picking up the ambivalent magician by Simon Hawke before trying my hand at meta-fiction if I was you.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

Is that the book about the author who gets dragged into his fantasy world as some sort of champion or what not?

[blackfeather93.livejournal.com]

It says... uh, that the author is very proud of himself/herself and tells others indirectly that so should they be.

... Or something.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

I think it's an "or something" myself.

[(Anonymous)]

That's exactly the thing that happens in crap like The Magicians and Inkheart.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

Now, I rather like Inkheart but never read the Magicians. However, that aside, I was thinking more of a Girl Falls Into Middle Earth sort of take.

[kevias.livejournal.com]

I think this kind of thing would have to be done ironically to be interesting. The fan could be the only sane person surrounded by hammy speeches and melodramatic angsting. Or the reality of the story could be rough and brutal, shocking the fan into realizing that war is hell. Either way, the moral would revolve around leeching the silly nonsense out of the fan and making them more mature by burdening them with doubt and responsibility. So that at the end, when the fan finally escapes the fantasy, they are a mindless fan no longer, but a rational human being.

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

That's sort of what I'm thinking of doing.

[emily-goddess.livejournal.com]

You're going to write your own Mary Sue? Sounds like a fun exercise.