Allyson, did you write about that con where one of the fan herders was really snippy to you? I think you were waiting to see Joss. I can't remember the details, but am hoping I'm saying enough that you'll recognize the incident.
Did you write about the
Bring Back the Bronze
campaign and how (at least for me, and I assume for you) by the end, it was hard to ever care about the Bronze again?
Did you write about camp, or the pool, or the tree house? (I know you can't say much about them particularly or specifically), but there might be something you could say about ex-pat private boards?
Did you write about the Diaspora when The WB/Apollo shut down the official board, and how we were split between jw.net and the Bater?
Did you write about Bronze Safety 'Net?
Did you write about WITTs or birthday Faerie Tales? The Fifth Game? Fan fiction? Slash? RPF?
Were you involved at all in GBAE? Could you write about that?
Could you write about VIP groupees or flesh out your BNF essay with some anecdotes about them?
ETA...
What about PBP vs. Caritas?
What about when you did the auction for [was it PBP or the W&H Annual Revue]? Did you get dumped from one the year after you'd done a kick-ass job?
nodding at Cindy's list
And on some of these, if you're handling them as interviews or at least as "with input from" other people, a lot of the wordcount gets done for you. If I've got anything you can use, it's yours - happy to sign a release.
Drabble:
I’m sitting in my study, surrounded by my things. I try to bring order to the clutter, but most of it doesn’t have a proper place in the room or in my life. Journals with just a few pages written in them, books that I have owned for years and never read, and knick knacks of all sorts. They were supposed to comfort me, to feed a part of me that is hungrier and more hollow than my stomach ever could be, but they don’t, they can’t. Instead, they devour the space around me, making my world a little smaller.
Cindy, I've talked about just about everything on that list, except maybe the Bronze Safety 'Net. It's probably timely due to all the MySpace hysteria.
I appreciate this a lot. It's thinking about answers to questions that makes things start flowing, again. I just sent an e to a friend and said, "ask me something. anything. doesn't matter if it's embarassing."
I would like to maybe write an open letter to the douchebag who was such a shit at Comic Con. That's be hilarious, short, and catharsis all wrapped up in about 800 words.
What did I do with my time?
sj, nice one.
Allyson, literally, I'd suggest at the very least a Q&A on fan craziness, quotes taken at random from every sector of the issue.
so do that. Produce a bunch of stuff like that. stuff of various length. Some of it will fit into the flow of the main book. Anything that doesn't stick it into a back section. You could even call that section "end matter" or "back matter".
Write letters to five people who have pissed you off in fandom who are not already included. If they average 600 words each, that is 3,000 of your 9,000 words done. They are likely to be entertaing. And maybe Catharsis.
Thanks, deb.
Best of luck finding your words, Allyson. You're a talented writer; you can definitely do this.
Change names to protect the guilty.
Change names to protect the guilty.
Heh. Just call 'em archetypes.
"Dear Whiny Self-Absorbed Wannabe who called me a social climber at ArmpitCon in 1999...."
