It has hit fandom_wank, by the way. I'm sure we're all shocked.
Mal: Then I call it a win. What's the problem? Inara: Should I start with the part where you're stranded in the middle of nowhere, or the part where you have no clothes?
'Trash'
Fan Fiction II: Great story! Where's the sequel?
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
Dana - Aug 10, 2005 5:11:17 am PDT #795 of 10434
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
§ ita § - Aug 10, 2005 5:11:20 am PDT #796 of 10434
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If people will pay her for it ... well, there's the impact on the fan fiction rep/community as a whole, but otherwise if her fanbase wants to pay her to take a year off, I'd be impressed.
Just like I have nothing against those chicks who set up websites asking for random money, except where it makes the less reasoning daub all women with the same opportunistic brush.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 10, 2005 5:48:39 am PDT #797 of 10434
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I don't really object to it in theory, as it's just basically cutting out the publishing/printing middlemen. Wait a second, I work in publishing—OBJECTION!
But this strikes me as quite off-putting:
If you're not, that's understandable, and all I ask is that you never again ask me how my WIPs are coming.
Not a problem, hon.
Connie Neil - Aug 10, 2005 5:48:59 am PDT #798 of 10434
brillig
How does one get to fandom_wank? I plugged that in on LJ and got an "account suspended" message.
Dana - Aug 10, 2005 5:50:34 am PDT #799 of 10434
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
It's on journalfen.net.
Betsy HP - Aug 10, 2005 5:55:33 am PDT #800 of 10434
If I only had a brain...
It's a gift economy, madame. I think you want the for-pay economy next door, the one we call "professional publication".
Dana - Aug 10, 2005 6:01:41 am PDT #801 of 10434
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Yes, but we'd also be subsidizing her original fiction writing as well.
After which, I suppose everyone would have the privilege of buying her book. The book they'd already paid for.
erikaj - Aug 10, 2005 6:12:29 am PDT #802 of 10434
Always Anti-fascist!
Whatever! I'm just happy that nobody begs me to stop, my fanfic being, you know,self-indulgent.
Susan W. - Aug 10, 2005 6:28:44 am PDT #803 of 10434
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
And here I've been toiling away, waiting to get paid to write until an actual publisher is willing to cut me an advance check...you mean I've been doing this all wrong?
shrift - Aug 10, 2005 6:33:43 am PDT #804 of 10434
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
What gets me is that she seems to be all "woe! people won't stop begging me to finish my stories!" And that she thinks asking people to pay her will somehow make this better.
Fans get proprietary. I predict that she'll get a whole new crop of people demanding that she write exactly what they want, because after all, they paid for it, right?