Where have all the muses gone?

[author_by_night]

Am I the only one really craving post TDH fics?

August, I could understand there being so few post TDH fics.  WIPs that had been started before needed to be posted. September, again,  I could understand.

But half a year later... I don't understand that.

There's so much backstory and a nineteen year gap to work with. So why not write about that? That's what I think a lot of us are more interested in.

I mean, I don't mind it if people don't want to stick to pre-TDH universes, I just don't know why more people don't want to work with the new canon.

Comments

[chocolatepot.livejournal.com]

TBH, I think a lot of the fandom's fic output came from people who are now antifen. So they don't want to write fic, generally, because they're too busy writing outraged meta about how they were cheated.

The people who still like the books are hampered by the fact that those 19 years were peaceful, and while the epilogue wrapped things up nicely, it didn't really cause a lot of plotbunnies. Unless you really like second-gen fic. At least, that's my impression and personal feeling.

As for backstory ... I think the people who prefer writing about backstory are fairly specific about what they want to write about, and that means there's a good chance they were Jossed, and probably don't want to write anymore.

And we're all tired. Maybe in a few years we'll have a fandom renaissance.