Would original fiction be welcome? I have a plot bunny involving the NO of my era, and if I were a published author, I'd be talking to my editor about doing a benefit anthology, but as it stands I don't know what to do with it.
Hmm. I don't see why not. There's probably a way to phrase things so that someone would pledge on as-yet unwritten original fic.
Edit: Actually, one of my LJ challenge communities (contrelamorte) is actually a group of four related communities: one is for slash fic, one is for anime-related slash fic, a third is for gen-het, and another is for original slash (there was a fifth group for original het/gen, but it's gone). That might be a way to arrange things in a more or less central location.
Susan, if you have an agent, or a friend who has an agent, or a connection at a publishing house, it's still a great idea to pitch professionally. The amount of time it'll take to get a book through the publishing system is still bupkes compared to how long NO will need the help.
Go forth and read tafkar's Daniel/Vala fic, for, lo, it contains not a single sexual body part and yet it will make you break into a cold sweat.
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Seriously. So much more porny than most porn.
I've been digging through a Harry Potter slash archive, and I am utterly boggled at the amount of Harry/Snape out there. The romantic Harry/Snape. No, I didn't read more than the summaries.
The archive even has a standard label for Out Of Character-ness. Oh, as usual, dear.
The archive even has a standard label for Out Of Character-ness.
Wouldn't it be nice if they all did? Of course, it's essentially a self-identification process, and thus flawed.
The archive even has a standard label for Out Of Character-ness.
Wouldn't it be nice if they all did?
Oh, goodness, yes. I posted the following list of truly useful fic warnings in my LJ a while back.
- Beta-reader is the author's bestest friend in the whole world.
- Author cannot tolerate constructive criticism.
- Smutfic written by 13-year-old who has learned everything she knows about sex from other fics.
- Main characters display the emotional maturity of an eight-year-old. So does the 25-year-old author.
- Laughably bizarre euphemisms used for genitalia.
- You will need brain bleach.
- Author has jettisoned accurate characterization in order to portray her least favorite character as a screaming harpy.
- This story is exactly like every other story this author has written.
- Pairings in this fic are based solely on teh hotness, and not on anything ever seen in canon.
- One half of the m/m pairing behaves like a weepy little girl throughout the fic.
- Against all probability, everyone in this fic is gay. Everyone.
- This fic is nothing but 10 paragraphs of the lead character whinging about how miserable his/her life is.
- Everyone is happily paired off with another character by the end of the fic. Everyone.
- The author is sticking to canon, except for those pesky bits that get in the way of her favorite pairing.
- Hurt/hurt/hurt/hurt/hurt/hurt/comfort: The author's favorite character is subjected to a level of suffering that would give Job a lovely feeling of schadenfreude if he saw it. Then, hot sex, usually in a hospital bed.
- Even though the two male characters being paired up are in the military, police force, etc., everyone knows about their relationship and is very, very happy for them. Everyone.
- Fic was written 20 minutes after the episode was aired and is virtually identical to every other fic written 20 minutes after the episode was aired.
• Against all probability, everyone in this fic is gay. Everyone.
Ah, my number one gripe about certain kinds of slashfic, being set in the Mirror Ball Universe. Here's a hint, unless your fic exclusively pairs Armistead Maupin characters, some of them should still be heterosexual as per canon.
Armistad Maupin characters
Hey, wasn't Benton Fraser straight?
t /rampant media confusion
