on my own

[isiscolo]

Hello world! I am at a conference, which means that I am in a hotel room (actually a studio condo) where I have just made myself dinner (chicken mango salad) and drunk a measured 1/3 of a bottle of zin, and now I am sprawled on the couch with my laptop on the hotel wireless which drops about every 10 minutes. I am reading fic and really, truly,

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[china_shop]

I think the various Big Bangs are contributing to the general cricket nature of fandom atm, too, FWIW.

it was a story I wanted to write and I am glad I wrote it, and I would have been happy about it even had nobody commented.

\o/ It's lovely to find those stories, eh?

Me, I just spent half the day writing/constructing an experimental fic that failed, but it was still fun in its own way.

[isiscolo]

Maybe - but Sharpe isn't bangy, if you know what I mean. Although I suppose those fans are also likely fans of other fandoms which are bangy. But really, I wrote it for me, because it was a story I wanted to read and nobody had been nice enough to write it yet.

Aw, it is always sad when you feel that something you have done has failed. But if you got something out of the process, that is good. At what point do you decide something is a failure? (Am curious because I'm contemplating an experiment myself.)

[china_shop]

I suppose those fans are also likely fans of other fandoms which are bangy.

Yeah, that. I think there's a lot of ambient banginess around.

At what point do you decide something is a failure?

Usually when I get beta back enumerating the many problems with it, and I think, "Yeah, I kinda knew all that. Doh! Is there anything salvageable here? Not so much. Okay, then..."

In this instance, it was a multi-media response to a ficlet prompt, but the multimedia didn't make a story, and what story it hinted at was bleaker than I intended. I knew something wasn't adding up, so although I was on the verge of posting for several hours, I kept looking around for someone to give me a second opinion, and when they did. Well, see above. *rueful shrug* Thank god for beta!

[isiscolo]

Yeah, I think it's much easier for someone else to spot the flaws and to articulate them in a way that I understand, than it is for me to see that something is hopeless. Although for me at least it's really hard to resist the impulse to post anyway. Sometimes I have failed in this.

[china_shop]

Although for me at least it's really hard to resist the impulse to post anyway.

Yeah, I'm hoping that I've been posting enough stuff recently that I can trick my brain into forgetting about it. *distracts brain with shiny things* ;-)

Actually, what I often do is to send broken or unpostable stuff to one or two friends, so I get the feeling of audience without the feeling of, "OMG, why did I let that out in public?!?"