Hahaha. Not
I just went over to look at that fan fiction survey that's whipping up a frothy kerfuffle. Didn't look at the survey itself, which I don't intend to take, just browsed the comments. ETA The survey's down now while they lick their wounds, I guess.
OMG, too freaking funny. In a, when I read it I spluttered and choked, trying to get the words 'You have got to be fucking kidding me' out whilst at the same time snickering and trying to get my dropped jaw back into place, kind of way.
The person who set it came out with some real gems just in the first page. minisinoo pointed out
One of the questions asked how many stories one had written, but didn't specify *length*. That's actually not very helpful. I wound up answering in terms of rough total WORDCOUNT divided by the length of the average short story (c. 7500 words). But in terms of NUMBERS, because I write novels and novellas, primarily, my total number would have looked rather low whereas by WORDCOUNT, I'm fairly prolific.
and the survey creator replied:
To be honest, I didn't realize that fanfiction included novels and novellas. Do you consider the novels as "fan fiction" or do you hope to publish them professionally? It does present a trickly challenge to consider how properly to include novellas and novels in this quantification. Obviously, such longer works took orders of magnitude more time than stories. Let us think about this.
and then went on to dig the hole deeper:
However, I fear that the majority -- or at least a significant portion -- of fan fic writers may not be aware of total word count, which does seem to my ignorant mind to be more the province of professionals.
But thank you for opening our eyes to the existence of longer fan fiction works. We'll have to take a look at some! :)
That's just...I mean...what? He's surveying fanfic and doesn't know ANYTHING about it, not even the basics? Hasn't ever even looked at a fic comm or a post? I just...:;flails::
This has to be a wind-up. That's appalling research technique.
I am so sick of fandom being poked and prodded at by people wanting to know what makes me/us/it tick. Leave us alone to write smut and squee in peace.
ETA OMG, the title of their book is 'RULE 34: WHAT NETPORN TEACHES US ABOUT THE BRAIN.'
Make them go away ::shudders::
OMG, too freaking funny. In a, when I read it I spluttered and choked, trying to get the words 'You have got to be fucking kidding me' out whilst at the same time snickering and trying to get my dropped jaw back into place, kind of way.
The person who set it came out with some real gems just in the first page. minisinoo pointed out
One of the questions asked how many stories one had written, but didn't specify *length*. That's actually not very helpful. I wound up answering in terms of rough total WORDCOUNT divided by the length of the average short story (c. 7500 words). But in terms of NUMBERS, because I write novels and novellas, primarily, my total number would have looked rather low whereas by WORDCOUNT, I'm fairly prolific.
and the survey creator replied:
To be honest, I didn't realize that fanfiction included novels and novellas. Do you consider the novels as "fan fiction" or do you hope to publish them professionally? It does present a trickly challenge to consider how properly to include novellas and novels in this quantification. Obviously, such longer works took orders of magnitude more time than stories. Let us think about this.
and then went on to dig the hole deeper:
However, I fear that the majority -- or at least a significant portion -- of fan fic writers may not be aware of total word count, which does seem to my ignorant mind to be more the province of professionals.
But thank you for opening our eyes to the existence of longer fan fiction works. We'll have to take a look at some! :)
That's just...I mean...what? He's surveying fanfic and doesn't know ANYTHING about it, not even the basics? Hasn't ever even looked at a fic comm or a post? I just...:;flails::
This has to be a wind-up. That's appalling research technique.
I am so sick of fandom being poked and prodded at by people wanting to know what makes me/us/it tick. Leave us alone to write smut and squee in peace.
ETA OMG, the title of their book is 'RULE 34: WHAT NETPORN TEACHES US ABOUT THE BRAIN.'
Make them go away ::shudders::