It's in the book "What I Did on my Summer Vacation" (I think that's the title), title of "Dust"; I have the next-to-last or possibly last version of it in Word format which I can email to you if you want. It's kind of 10K words.
If someone asked me about the fiction, it wouldn't occur to me that it was part of a larger discourse.
Interesting. Maybe the difference is that I'm writing fanfic in a community context? The same people whose critiques I read, and who read mine, are reading my fic, making requests, I'm reading their fic, the rants turn into debates turn into story ideas turn into rants based on disagreeing with the character interpretations shown in the story etc. They really do all flow one into the other, so it feels like one conversation to me.
I think this is probably the difference. Although there is a loose community of writers, we're nowhere near that tightly knit; we're likely to kvetch about our daily struggles, our moments of insanity, our bad review days, our lack of money, etc., etc., than we are to actually talk about our work. In many cases, the people I spend the most time with in the writing community haven't reliably read any of my work, or vice versa. There are two authors who, in a pinch, I'll send actual text -- but it's in a pinch, as in, stuck-so-stuck and the deadline is looming like an oncoming train. And yes, I'm on the tracks.
Whereas the two book fics I've written were more in isolation. One was a response to a request, but there wasn't the back and forth.
Was the request from an individual or from a community? I assume that, with the exception of Harry Potter, the fandoms for Television/movies are larger or easier to find.
Should I be apologizing for spamming your journal, BTW? I'm really enjoying this discussion, but when all six of my comment notifications are from you I have to wonder if that means I'm monopolizing you too much.
Don't apologize to me <g>. If you want to apologize to anyone else who happens to be reading this (and I'm assuming if it's making their eyes glaze over, they aren't anymore) that's fine, but I'm enjoying it, but am also finding it informative, and the two in combination are increasingly rare. Because I'm an older curmudgeon.
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Date: 2004-10-20 06:55 pm (UTC)If I wrote a Buffy story -- no, wait, I did
Is it up somewhere? May I read it? :)
It's in the book "What I Did on my Summer Vacation" (I think that's the title), title of "Dust"; I have the next-to-last or possibly last version of it in Word format which I can email to you if you want. It's kind of 10K words.
If someone asked me about the fiction, it wouldn't occur to me that it was part of a larger discourse.
Interesting. Maybe the difference is that I'm writing fanfic in a community context? The same people whose critiques I read, and who read mine, are reading my fic, making requests, I'm reading their fic, the rants turn into debates turn into story ideas turn into rants based on disagreeing with the character interpretations shown in the story etc. They really do all flow one into the other, so it feels like one conversation to me.
I think this is probably the difference. Although there is a loose community of writers, we're nowhere near that tightly knit; we're likely to kvetch about our daily struggles, our moments of insanity, our bad review days, our lack of money, etc., etc., than we are to actually talk about our work. In many cases, the people I spend the most time with in the writing community haven't reliably read any of my work, or vice versa. There are two authors who, in a pinch, I'll send actual text -- but it's in a pinch, as in, stuck-so-stuck and the deadline is looming like an oncoming train. And yes, I'm on the tracks.
Whereas the two book fics I've written were more in isolation. One was a response to a request, but there wasn't the back and forth.
Was the request from an individual or from a community? I assume that, with the exception of Harry Potter, the fandoms for Television/movies are larger or easier to find.
Should I be apologizing for spamming your journal, BTW? I'm really enjoying this discussion, but when all six of my comment notifications are from you I have to wonder if that means I'm monopolizing you too much.
Don't apologize to me <g>. If you want to apologize to anyone else who happens to be reading this (and I'm assuming if it's making their eyes glaze over, they aren't anymore) that's fine, but I'm enjoying it, but am also finding it informative, and the two in combination are increasingly rare. Because I'm an older curmudgeon.