Kudos for stretching yourself outside your comfort zone!
I rarely seek out fics based on prose fandoms (and I haven't written any) and with only a couple of exceptions the ones I have sought out were already adapted to the screen. For example, I enjoyed the Harry Potter books but never read any fics until after the movies, and whenever I read those fics I have the actors' faces in my head for each character as I read.
One of the biggest challenges I think for writing as well as appreciating a fanfic from a straight prose fandom is capturing the author's style and tone. I've read some fanfic for Neil Gaiman's Graveyard Book, starting with an author whose other work I enjoyed. Some of the stories read like they could have been part of the original work, some didn't quite get there. Good for you pushing yourself, and taking on a Victorian novel (and an ambitious one) is amazing.
I've read other George Eliot but not Daniel Deronda. Sounds interesting - I'll have to add it to my (already long) to-read list. But it sounds like with the summary you've provided here, canon knowledge is not otherwise needed to enjoy your story.
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I rarely seek out fics based on prose fandoms (and I haven't written any) and with only a couple of exceptions the ones I have sought out were already adapted to the screen. For example, I enjoyed the Harry Potter books but never read any fics until after the movies, and whenever I read those fics I have the actors' faces in my head for each character as I read.
One of the biggest challenges I think for writing as well as appreciating a fanfic from a straight prose fandom is capturing the author's style and tone. I've read some fanfic for Neil Gaiman's Graveyard Book, starting with an author whose other work I enjoyed. Some of the stories read like they could have been part of the original work, some didn't quite get there. Good for you pushing yourself, and taking on a Victorian novel (and an ambitious one) is amazing.
I've read other George Eliot but not Daniel Deronda. Sounds interesting - I'll have to add it to my (already long) to-read list. But it sounds like with the summary you've provided here, canon knowledge is not otherwise needed to enjoy your story.