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<blockquote data-quote="Oligopsony" data-source="post: 9085315" data-attributes="member: 56314">Well, yes and no.No, technically, because fanfiction is defined by its relationship to another canonical fiction and your play might or might have that - Star Wars vs. your own setting.No more generally because writing prose fiction has a number of goals that solo play doesn't traditionally have, and the stance you're taking is different. For instance, when writing prose fiction you care about the craft of the prose and are trying to turn it into a complete work, even when &quot;pantsing&quot; you may jump around quite a bit editing what has happened, and certainly editing after the fact, because you're trying to produce something for a third party audience.In solo play you're attempting to inhabit the stance of a particular person, and you're not producing for an external audience. So the procedures you're following may be quite different, as are the goals. Rolling on a random table would be something that a traditional author might only due if she needed inspiration, but a solo player might have it as a methodological point that they're going to consult with the table and run with it. Yes, sorta kinda, in that obviously this is a mode of playing RPGs that is much closer to writing prose fiction than others. If you were writing everything out in an AP for an external party to enjoy, and you were editing it to be more compelling and satisfactory as a work of external prose, I'd say the boundary is almost completely effaced.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Oligopsony, post: 9085315, member: 56314"] Well, yes and no. No, technically, because fanfiction is defined by its relationship to another canonical fiction and your play might or might have that - Star Wars vs. your own setting. No more generally because writing prose fiction has a number of goals that solo play doesn't traditionally have, and the stance you're taking is different. For instance, when writing prose fiction you care about the craft of the prose and are trying to turn it into a complete work, even when "pantsing" you may jump around quite a bit editing what has happened, and certainly editing after the fact, because you're trying to produce something for a third party audience. In solo play you're attempting to inhabit the stance of a particular person, and you're not producing for an external audience. So the procedures you're following may be quite different, as are the goals. Rolling on a random table would be something that a traditional author might only due if she needed inspiration, but a solo player might have it as a methodological point that they're going to consult with the table and run with it. Yes, sorta kinda, in that obviously this is a mode of playing RPGs that is much closer to writing prose fiction than others. If you were writing everything out in an AP for an external party to enjoy, and you were editing it to be more compelling and satisfactory as a work of external prose, I'd say the boundary is almost completely effaced. [/QUOTE]

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