Fanfiction = Good

[meddow]

I'm going through a major Rolling Stones phase at the moment. I think it's because I've been watching my S1 House DVDs again. So the the Chase icon has been dragged out. Jesse Spencer is just wonderful.

My power bill this month is going to be the death of me. I’m really not helping since I’ve decided my favourite place in the world to be at the moment is the shower. It’s my second best place to think and my femgenficathon entry has me a bit stuck.

Speaking of fic, I started writing fanfiction in November because there were not enough of the stories I wanted to read out there and I was an absolute nervous wreck about how it would be received. I wrote so much as a kid and I wanted to be an author when I grew up, but somewhere along the way in high school I convinced myself I wasn’t a good writer. I’m not sure what it was, probably a combination of the spirit-crushing creative writing section of the School Certificate English exam or the fact I spent so much time being a science geek and emo that I forgot I could be creative.

In the past two days I’ve been recced in two rec communities, which is so great (and thank you both jadeddiva and theregoesyamum). A year ago I would never have expected I could be capable of writing anything halfway decent. If I never wrote anything I would probably still think I'm a crap writer.

People can slag off fanfiction for not being real writing and uncreative and whatever. But through writing fanfiction I’ve got my confidence back and along the way I’ve rediscovered a childhood passion.

Comments

[jadeddiva.livejournal.com]

No, it's true - but I think that even on my short list, it's a crap shoot. I'll love one piece by an author, and then not be wowed by another and feel bad because I like other fics they've done. No one is consistant which is to be expected, but sometimes I wish that were different.

[gunderpants.livejournal.com]

I really haven't even written much about the pairing these days because I think of something I'd like to write and see the idea be butchered by someone else's handling of it. Thank god for gen and OT3 these days or I probably wouldn't be writing fic at all. Fuck, even the association of being an R/T author stops me finishing 'Loneliness'.

That all sounds incredibly bitchy, but there's such a connotation of R/T as being this fluffy, saccharine pairing full of idiotic fangirls, and when you read a lot of the stuff that goes up online it just makes you cling to the sane, ascerbically funny fanauthors even more.

[jadeddiva.livejournal.com]

That all sounds incredibly bitchy, but there's such a connotation of R/T as being this fluffy, saccharine pairing full of idiotic fangirls, and when you read a lot of the stuff that goes up online it just makes you cling to the sane, ascerbically funny fanauthors even more.

That's how Sylvia and I feel, pretty much. Join the club, we meet at the bar.

[gunderpants.livejournal.com]

Brilliant. Hey, who knows? I may submit some stuff to this round of the rt_challenge.

I actually think I started writing R/T just because it was all such a squeaky-clean pairing. I wanted to write it with real grottiness and profanity. Tres fun.