How does one get to fandom_wank? I plugged that in on LJ and got an "account suspended" message.
Don't I get a cookie?
Spike ,'Never Leave Me'
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.
Connie Neil - Aug 10, 2005 5:48:59 am PDT #798 of 10434
brillig
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?
erikaj - Aug 10, 2005 7:03:17 am PDT #805 of 10434
Always Anti-fascist!
Well, yeah, and I wouldn't blame them, exactly, once we've accepted they're dumb enough to participate.
Dana - Aug 10, 2005 7:09:02 am PDT #806 of 10434
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
She's added a new post with various justifications, blah blah blah. This one allows comments.
I'm actually tempted. But I'm letting it go. (She does explain how people aren't *buying* fanfic! They're supporting her in her attempt to launch a career! The fic is just a gift with purchase!)
Consuela - Aug 10, 2005 7:27:51 am PDT #807 of 10434
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
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?
Spot on, Shrift. Talk about the entitlement economy.
I'm appalled at the SG-1 writer who "sells" PDF downloads of her zines at $8 a pop; but there at least the fic's already been written. This woman's asking for cash up front!
Which means, yeah, if the readers don't like the outcome, they're going to feel they have a legitimate right to whine.