Maximum number of self-created fanworks for an unpopular fandom/ship

[g_uava]

What's the upper limit of fanworks you've created as a self-sustaining fan? That means relying on yourself primarily to sustain your own interest to complete your creative projects since your fandom/ship/favourite is so obscure that feedback and other fanworks to inspire you are hard to come by.

Also, would you have wished to have created more for the same unpopular fandom/ship, even if there remains few others who are just as invested?


The most I've created is around 30,000 words of fics and fewer than 10 non-writing fanworks (icons, gifsets, fanvideos) for a rare pair from an old fandom. It's so rare that there were (and still are) no other English language fanworks for the ship aside from what I've created.

I'm satisfied with what I've created and am glad to move on to another canon that involved tackling a new challenge in my fanworks. But if I were to write for the ship again, I'd more deliberately include a larger variety of fun fanfic tropes in my fics.

Comments

[sathari]

Hah! It's definitely not the first--- if anything, I'm more likely to have multiple AUs with multiple divergences from a given point. But I do tend to think in novel-length stories, so to speak. Well, and with rarepairs, or at least the villain/hero ones I mentioned, somewhat more "work" or explanation/exposition has to go into "how in the hell did these two people even come to stand each other, much less fall in love", as well as the rest of their worlds' reactions to them, so they get long by their very nature.