opinions please

[donutsweeper]

I grew up near a lake that was considered haunted.  It had weird geological issues, unusual drowning statistics, and a cool legend associated with it.  I did a bunch of research about it and then used the lake as the base of my tardis bigbang, after adding an alien twist to it.

Would it be sneaky or cheating to write a Supernatural story about the same lake? 

Comments

[aeron-lanart.livejournal.com]

Sneaky maybe, but definitely not cheating. Have to admit to not reading any of your SPN stuff as that is one show that doesn't really interest me (unlike NCIS which I have caught a few times now and love what I've seen so far!).

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

It's a weird fandom- and show- but ghosts and hauntings can be cool and the 2 stars are handsome...

:) There's no need to read anything if you're not into the fandom, that totally expected!

I really don't think there'll be too much of a crossover between people willing to wade through a tw bigbang and a spn casefic, but I wasn't sure what people thought about using the same legend for the two different stories.

[travels-in-time.livejournal.com]

I'd go for it! I've worked the Wizard of Oz into at least two different fandoms, and that's an old and well-worn story. Yours would have the advantage of being new and interesting.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Wizard of Oz is iconic!
new and interesting... maybe, if I manage to take my random jibberishy notes and turn them into something

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Hmmm...although, since it is a real place, and you did all this research, I think you should.
I also must admit to not reading SPN. ;)
BTW, where is this DW fic? I haven't seen all the TARDIS big bang stuff.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Legends and Legacies (http://tbb.destinysgarden.net/submissions/04_legends.html) is my tw bigbang.

I was kind of assuming that there isn't a lot of reader crossover between the two fandoms, which makes reusing the legend easier in a way

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't worry about it. You're liable to get two different groups of people reading it and it's two different fandoms, so there can certainly be two different 'verses associated with said lake. I mean, you look at how many novelist write stuff about Arthurian legend. Or even Phillipa Gregory, who writes the same time period stuff from the point of view of so many different people. It's no different. Go for it. *nods*

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

excellent points. thanks :)

[rustydog.livejournal.com]

Do it!

Look how many professional authors who keep coming back to the same images and settings. John Irving comes to mind right away.

And you wouldn't have to go to any effort in the story to get them near the lake this time! It's completely plausible that they would be there at some time or another. :)

[travels-in-time.livejournal.com]

Now that I think about it, Diane Duane has done it. (I'm kind of on a DD kick right now, re-reading all the Young Wizard books.) In both her Star Trek novels and her Young Wizard books, a lot of the same myths and creation stories keep popping up.

Oh, and Elizabeth Peters/Barbara Mertz/Barbara Michaels: I've read tons of her books, and you talk about some repeated images. How many of them feature the Maiden/Mother/Crone, or human sacrifice, or labyrinth imagery is just amazing.

[chatona.livejournal.com]

Sneaky smart is what it will be! Not cheating at all!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

:) I like the idea of being sneaky smart!

[nakeisha.livejournal.com]

Not at all.

Using what we know/have experience of is a tried and tested thing in fanfic and mainstream fic.

Go for it!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

good advice- thanks!

[kensieg.livejournal.com]

not at all! if the scriptwriters knew about your lake they write an episode about it!

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

they probably would! :) thansk

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

No as long as it isn't the same story :D

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

No alien water dragons this time around- probably ghost+water wraith (something mentioned in episode 1x03)

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

Creppy :D
how did your Hc thing go? Or don't you know yet??
WOW I missed you this weekend *HUGS*

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

today's the final day of voting for the dialogue h/c thing. I had been worried about getting kicked out, but I have to admit, there were a LOT of stories much worse than mine.

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

And at least one that was WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY over the word limit :S

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

yeah- that really bugged me- they were supposed to be 300-500 and one is almost 800? But there were a lot that didn't fulfill the prompt. And one that spelled Ronon's name wrong too... sorry, that's inexcusable when you're entering a contest with the story!

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

one was over 800...

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

honestly, it's a bit sad, but reading all the others made me feel better as a writer.

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

You are a wonderiffic writer *smooches*

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

*twirls you* ta muchly. it's just something that's hard for me to believe sometimes

[mad-jaks.livejournal.com]

I know *Just* how you feel *showers you with donuts and retires off to me bed with hot chocolate*

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

sleep well and dream of donuts, darling!

[the-dark-side.livejournal.com]

I'd have to say no, especially after that SPN/TW crossover.