'Get It Done'
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
It doesn't really bother me either. I've never had a problem with the characters having skill sets that they shouldn't, it's a show about space travel through a gate with snake like aliens with a god complex and little gray aliens and albino space vampires.
I'd probably have more problems if the show was grounded in a little more reality. I've pretty much stopped watching CSI and partly because they wouldn't be conducting interviews! and all the other stuff!
Hey there - did everyone already know Shalott has an original novel coming out? Most excellent. Moreover, you can hear her (and Lee Goldberg and co) on the radio, discussing fanfic.
Didn't listen to the radio show, but did read her comments on it. Lee Goldberg apparently said exactly what I would expect him to say regarding fanfic.(I'm on a mystery listserv and a few months back the subject of fanfic came up, which led to Mr. Goldberg's rant in several parts about how awful it is.)
Lee Goldberg, eh?
He's a wonder, that man. It seems to me that he must be insecure & unhappy with his whole writing-professional-fanfic gig, to be so foamingly anti-fanfic. He is at such pains to say "this isn't what I do! this is bad and disgusting and not art, not creative, not valid! But what I do is different!!!" It's pitiful, in a way.
Or maybe it's simpler than that. Maybe it's just that the existence of free fanwritten fanfic makes him fret that his own income is at risk? But, really, it's not like there's an enormous fanwriting community for Diagnosis Murder, or what have you, is it?
an original novel coming out
Yup. She says it's up on Amazon now, too. Yay her! And it looks fantastic. It's actually the first of a trilogy.
It is fantastic.
t /smug
t jealous
That tag will not close until I have a copy of Temeraire in my hot little hands. I loved the chapter I saw, though. She's so frelling talented.
Damn you, wee Dana!
shakes tiny fist
Yes, the teaser chapter was delicious. I can't get over how excited I am for her, given that she's someone I know only at a remove, through their fic. I mean, she doesn't know me from Adam, but I'm all Go Team!
I get to meet her next month! t dances
I will fangirl her shamelessly, I expect. It's funny -- if I "know" someone, even if I think they're fantastic, I don't fangirl them. But if I don't have some kind of relationship with them, I end up all squealy and fangirly and it's just bad.
Look, turtles!
It'll be easy. She's possibly the nicest person in the world.