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A year in fanfiction
Jun. 11th, 2013 01:18 pmIt's a year today exactly!
... since I first ventured to actually post in the fanfiction world. I had lurked for a few months, first joining NFFRevolution just as it softly vanished into the night, and then ffnet, which I found a very strange and daunting place.
So I just read and wondered,and especially wondered at some of the malice and savagery that was around. What spurred me to post at last was reading a call by one of the people there calling for more plain humanity, gentleness, kindness in reviews, for people to treat each other with respect. I thought "Yes, yes! This is what I want to find! Where is this?" and chased away to find a story by that person. And read it and loved it.
Yep, it was Food for Thought by rthstewart, (who was the person who had posted the call which showed there was humanity and humaneness in fanfiction, which is something I feel enormously strongly about the need for, so strongly I'm not even tidying up that sentence. :) ) and she replied so encouragingly that after -- good heavens! I've just checked! -- after only five days (was I drunk?) I launched into actually beginning a story of my own! And foolishly leapt in at the deep end by making it, deliberately planning it, to be a long story. That is, I planned it to be 20,000 words, ten neat chapters of two thousand words each, but in the end it came out at over 75,000. That was Resistance, a story about Caspian's Nurse.
And starting from right then! I have enjoyed the plentiful encouragement, and all the fun of the weekly challenges on NFFR-Party, and the 3SF earlier this year, even to the extent of wildly launching into another story (which started from one of those weekly challenges -- the prompt was 'merchants' but the idea needed more than a short story to work out. :) )
Truly, a lot of fun! I've written and put up here and on ffnet and on AO3 nearly 130,000 words, and have seen so much in watching and reading through the year, and have learned a lot along the way, even if I've been too caught up, in getting the stories written and pinned down and out there, to remember to put all the learning into practice. (I've been keeping track of the lessons learned though, in my profile, on ffnet.)
Oh, and had my mind just blown by some of the stories I've read -- brilliant, brilliant, brilliant! Truly,there is some absolutely ... well, I said brilliant already. Staggeringly good writing and thinking going on. (but you all knew that!) I am really, no kidding, grateful to have had the chance to find and read it. Thanks!
... since I first ventured to actually post in the fanfiction world. I had lurked for a few months, first joining NFFRevolution just as it softly vanished into the night, and then ffnet, which I found a very strange and daunting place.
So I just read and wondered,and especially wondered at some of the malice and savagery that was around. What spurred me to post at last was reading a call by one of the people there calling for more plain humanity, gentleness, kindness in reviews, for people to treat each other with respect. I thought "Yes, yes! This is what I want to find! Where is this?" and chased away to find a story by that person. And read it and loved it.
Yep, it was Food for Thought by rthstewart, (who was the person who had posted the call which showed there was humanity and humaneness in fanfiction, which is something I feel enormously strongly about the need for, so strongly I'm not even tidying up that sentence. :) ) and she replied so encouragingly that after -- good heavens! I've just checked! -- after only five days (was I drunk?) I launched into actually beginning a story of my own! And foolishly leapt in at the deep end by making it, deliberately planning it, to be a long story. That is, I planned it to be 20,000 words, ten neat chapters of two thousand words each, but in the end it came out at over 75,000. That was Resistance, a story about Caspian's Nurse.
And starting from right then! I have enjoyed the plentiful encouragement, and all the fun of the weekly challenges on NFFR-Party, and the 3SF earlier this year, even to the extent of wildly launching into another story (which started from one of those weekly challenges -- the prompt was 'merchants' but the idea needed more than a short story to work out. :) )
Truly, a lot of fun! I've written and put up here and on ffnet and on AO3 nearly 130,000 words, and have seen so much in watching and reading through the year, and have learned a lot along the way, even if I've been too caught up, in getting the stories written and pinned down and out there, to remember to put all the learning into practice. (I've been keeping track of the lessons learned though, in my profile, on ffnet.)
Oh, and had my mind just blown by some of the stories I've read -- brilliant, brilliant, brilliant! Truly,there is some absolutely ... well, I said brilliant already. Staggeringly good writing and thinking going on. (but you all knew that!) I am really, no kidding, grateful to have had the chance to find and read it. Thanks!
