Writing things and how I got outed as a fic writer in RL (crud)

[clawofcat]

Apologies for the lack of LJ cut on the last post. My cuts and coding haven't been quite right since last September, and I have no idea why they sometimes act up. It only seems to get funky when I include LJ usernames, but not links. Any ideas what may be going on?

I've been pretty quiet the last two weeks, but I have been silently puttering around

Comments

[rebcake]

I'm really honored that you worked so closely with me on that piece, especially since it's so very different in tone from your usual interest area. I'm getting a little misty...

Anyway, I think fanfic in general is getting way more mainstream. Maybe it's because I'm hyper aware, but there have been references all over the place to it, and not always in a completely dismissive way. That said, it's terribly niche, which as a comics fan, you've seen before. If you find people that know the code words, they are most likely copacetic folks. That's how it was for me in my 20s. We all found each other and made a creative community, which included the people who just liked to consume the creative product.

So, I'm not surprised that you are finding and being found by people who not only accept but are interested in your creative work. Even if it's for the "arousing" bits. And, hey, the more people who get turned on to the quality fic, the less you'll have to feel embarrassed. Maybe.

The LJ weirdness is weird. I was having all kinds of the same problems, and then they stopped. Maybe I updated a browser or something, but I really have no explanation.

[clawofcat]

Aw, Reb. *hugs* True, fluff is not exactly my forte, but betaing is betaing. You have to respect the vision of the writer and try and make that vision as good as it can be. Like I said, I would be happy to work with you again. Because more than the content of a fic, betaing for me is about whether you mesh with the writer. I've worked with Eowyn and Pass for a long time, and that constancy and familiarity only makes the partnership more effective because you learn about your writer's areas of strength and weakness, what feedback is most helpful to them, etc. It's all sort of wonderful, but let me not go on... *gets misty eyes, too*

Oh, you used the word copacetic. I actually had to look that one up. You get extra bonus points! But agreed that fanfic is becoming more mainstream. I went to school with Lady Jada, who is a very well known writer in HP fandom. She did some epic slash fic called The Shoebox Project and she was a very recognizable face on campus for this (I took Astronomy with her, heh). The paper I wrote for did a piece on her and fanfic, as well as the Wall Street Journal when she and her writing partner published their first original sci-fi work at whatever age we were... 20? So, I think the connection and the awareness that fanfic at the very least can lead to published work is definately in the public's consciousness. I think you see genre crossovers with comics, too. Not only the Buffy comics themselves, but film/tv creators like Joss writing for X-Men, Kevin Smith penning Green Arrow, and Brian K. Vaughn of Y:The Last Man fame and Paul Dini writing for Lost. Convergence of genre is definately on the rise.