Of course, you write your pet characters in a setting almost completely divorced from the majority of the canon cast, but I think that's actually quite rare.
Is it? It may be rare to have manufactured a situation where the rest of the cast are almost incapable of appearing (although the nature of the Jossverse means nothing is precluded) but huge numbers of writers manufacture settings where they simply don't appear - the reams and reams of fic where the two shipped characters sit in a room together, frequently in some nebulous undefined time and space, and just have a relationship.
Your point about output is very valid, and I notice that on the rare occasion I write short things they are more likely to include a canon character outside my core-four. But I still say there is a fundamental difference of outlook between your omnivorous style and a noticeable group of writers who are essentially univores.
The other thing of course is that the univorous fic is all shipping fic.
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Date: 2008-01-19 02:44 pm (UTC)Is it? It may be rare to have manufactured a situation where the rest of the cast are almost incapable of appearing (although the nature of the Jossverse means nothing is precluded) but huge numbers of writers manufacture settings where they simply don't appear - the reams and reams of fic where the two shipped characters sit in a room together, frequently in some nebulous undefined time and space, and just have a relationship.
Your point about output is very valid, and I notice that on the rare occasion I write short things they are more likely to include a canon character outside my core-four. But I still say there is a fundamental difference of outlook between your omnivorous style and a noticeable group of writers who are essentially univores.
The other thing of course is that the univorous fic is all shipping fic.