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.

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.

How does one get to fandom_wank? I plugged that in on LJ and got an "account suspended" message.

It's on journalfen.net.

It's a gift economy, madame. I think you want the for-pay economy next door, the one we call "professional publication".

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.

Whatever! I'm just happy that nobody begs me to stop, my fanfic being, you know,self-indulgent.

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?

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?

Well, yeah, and I wouldn't blame them, exactly, once we've accepted they're dumb enough to participate.