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Another thing about meta is that you don’t need to filter it through narrative and (arguably) stylistic elements. But then again, you need meta, at least to some extent, to write fics, so hmm.
Exactly! Meta (or, I guess, “headcanon”) is necessary for creative writers, because it’s… quite literally the core of what you want to convey. Conveying it in essay/meta format is much different than doing so through narrative format,

Could be either way, I think. But I personally feel like it’s more of an issue of the way that forming a cohesive story that conveys metafictional concepts and headcanon sort of happens differently - at least for me - than just making my metafictional concepts and headcanons cohesive for people. They both take effort, just a different kind.

It’s like showing versus telling, where fic is showing and unfiltered meta is telling - both are actually really important, but have to be conveyed different ways, and are best when appropriately combined based on the context and what you’re trying to say.

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