You know what?
Feb. 19th, 2007 12:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
agilebritI think my Fanfic!Muse might be dead.
I have mixed emotions about this. On the one hand, I'd like to keep my hand in. Instantaneous feedback is nice. I'm comfortable with these characters. They're fun to play with.
On the other hand, I realize that fanfic is the red-headed stepchild of writing, and it's held in contempt by a lot of people who really have no understanding of the several subcultures within it. That being said, I'll always have affection for it and will defend it to all and sundry until a definitive legal ruling comes down. You say "copyright infringement," I say "fair use"...to-may-to, to-mah-to.
So...I think I may have moved beyond fanfiction. I've written four original stories, beaten two of them into enough submission that they're (probably) ready to send out, am editing the third, have no idea what I'm going to do with the fourth, and have begun a fifth.
Also, I have the sneaking suspicion that the last few fanfics I've written...kind of suck. And I've had that feeling for a fair while. It's like they're being forced. While I bang my head over the origifics, it's a different feeling than the one I get when I'm banging my head over fanfic. I have one other ficathon to write for and a title to come up with for the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
cya_ficathon backup I just finished, but after this, I'm just not sure I'm going to be writing much more fanfic unless a Plot Bunny grabs me by the throat and won't let go.
So, if you're here to read fanfiction? Probably not going to be happening much. And if you want to defriend me, then I'm shiny with that. Of course, it's always "Defriending Amnesty Day" around here, anyway, but I thought I'd throw that out there.
That being said--I've created a filter for concrit for my origifics. About nineteen of you are already on it. Being on it puts you under no obligation whatsoever, and I'm going to make a locked post later for the folks that are already on it, so they will know who they are. If you wish to be on it, drop me a note, and I'll add you to it. :)
I have mixed emotions about this. On the one hand, I'd like to keep my hand in. Instantaneous feedback is nice. I'm comfortable with these characters. They're fun to play with.
On the other hand, I realize that fanfic is the red-headed stepchild of writing, and it's held in contempt by a lot of people who really have no understanding of the several subcultures within it. That being said, I'll always have affection for it and will defend it to all and sundry until a definitive legal ruling comes down. You say "copyright infringement," I say "fair use"...to-may-to, to-mah-to.
So...I think I may have moved beyond fanfiction. I've written four original stories, beaten two of them into enough submission that they're (probably) ready to send out, am editing the third, have no idea what I'm going to do with the fourth, and have begun a fifth.
Also, I have the sneaking suspicion that the last few fanfics I've written...kind of suck. And I've had that feeling for a fair while. It's like they're being forced. While I bang my head over the origifics, it's a different feeling than the one I get when I'm banging my head over fanfic. I have one other ficathon to write for and a title to come up with for the
cya_ficathon backup I just finished, but after this, I'm just not sure I'm going to be writing much more fanfic unless a Plot Bunny grabs me by the throat and won't let go.So, if you're here to read fanfiction? Probably not going to be happening much. And if you want to defriend me, then I'm shiny with that. Of course, it's always "Defriending Amnesty Day" around here, anyway, but I thought I'd throw that out there.
That being said--I've created a filter for concrit for my origifics. About nineteen of you are already on it. Being on it puts you under no obligation whatsoever, and I'm going to make a locked post later for the folks that are already on it, so they will know who they are. If you wish to be on it, drop me a note, and I'll add you to it. :)
