Reavers ain't men. Or they forgot how to be. Now they're just nothing. They got out to the edge of the galaxy, to that place of nothing, and that's what they became.

Mal ,'Bushwhacked'


Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers  

This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.


esse - Jan 29, 2003 6:21:01 pm PST #3178 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

Cereal:

Dude, chick never posted our StS, did she?


Rebecca Lizard - Jan 29, 2003 6:21:30 pm PST #3179 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket

Chick never posted mine and Am's.


esse - Jan 29, 2003 6:21:53 pm PST #3180 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

Double cereal:

My Remix writer is the one who made me want to write Narnia fic! This rocks.


Elena - Jan 29, 2003 6:30:39 pm PST #3181 of 10000
Thanks for all the fish.

RL, plenty of people write poems about shows.... Or did you mean something else?


esse - Jan 29, 2003 6:37:13 pm PST #3182 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

t coughcough Ping, Plei.


Rebecca Lizard - Jan 29, 2003 6:39:51 pm PST #3183 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket

No, that's what I meant, I'm just being a bitch. I've read very little good fan poetry, and I've read *one* fan poem that made me go "wow, I wish I could do that". And that even doesn't really count, because it was a sonnet cycle about The Gift. Which, while an amazing effort, it's not the kind of writing I'm into doing myself.

Whereas for fic *daily* I read stories that make me *ache* with the desire to be able to kick that much ass. Stories that could have very easily been written by fiction-writing professionals; stories by people who are better than I am and better maybe than I'll ever be.

I love fandom, and ficdom. I'm in love with it so much I think about it daily, and I'd like nothing better than to do well in it, have the people I respect and admire respect me in return. Isn't that a basic desire in any field? But I'm put out because (right now at least) my prose is not amazing or even very good. My poetry *is* very good-- I believe that. I wish I had the opportunity to contribute to fandom, which I love so much, in the way fic-writers do, with the thing I am strong at. But there's really no market that I've seen of yet.


Connie Neil - Jan 29, 2003 6:42:57 pm PST #3184 of 10000
brillig

I love poetry, but I rarely think in poetry. I can come up with near-poetic sentences, but I'm afraid my skills poem-wise lie in the William the Bloody Awful realm.


Elena - Jan 29, 2003 6:57:28 pm PST #3185 of 10000
Thanks for all the fish.

I can't write poetry. Actually, I can, but it sucks. Very much.

Any idiot can write doggrel. You know, you need a licence to drive a car or own a dog or even fish; you'd think there would be some sort of poetic licence.


Michele T. - Jan 29, 2003 7:08:40 pm PST #3186 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi

Ba-DUM-dum. Zing!


P.M. Marc - Jan 29, 2003 7:19:33 pm PST #3187 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Dude, chick never posted our StS, did she?

lm? I know she was still working on it. Don't know if she's finished it. I know that post-deadline subs will, so it's been said, eventually go up.