Fuzzy talks about fandom part 2
In a field like HP fanfiction which is 100% subjective unless you are JKR and you are writing for fun....it's always going to be difficult if your story is rejected. For whatever reason.
I'm not here trying to make light of other people's misfortunes. I suppose that is what some people may think I'm doing. But I'm not.
I just can't seem to grasp why people act so nastily towards each other over this sort of thing. People we are writing and reading stories that we don't even own any rights to. None at all.
gahhhhhhhh.
I have a story up at TQP and SU. I have Watching the Detectives at SU. I have had nothing but a very, very enjoyable time working with my two beta's at SU. ModestyRabnott was the first beta and now I have another quite capable woman helping me get my stories published.
The fact that I have published most of my stuff at Checkmated is not a reflection on what I feel about the work that the staff at these other sites put in. That's just the way things turned out.
~o~
A few other points that I feel I need to say:
1. If you wrote something in a pre DH story and JKR actually includes a similar set (or even a dead on match) of events in DH, you cannot stand up and say "I am vindicated because everything I wrote came true."
No.
Vindication? Puhleeze. You wrote something and coincidently JKR wrote the same or similar thing. If you really believe it is anything but a coincidence, you need to get your head checked.
Give me a break.
Does this mean I can stand up on a soap box and proclaim "Look at me! I successfully predicted that Harry would rob Gringotts!"
Good lord.
2. Grown ups are supposed to act like grownups. Not like children.
When Kobe Bryant got arrested and charged with rape, you couldn't go on a basketball forum without some asshole or the other saying stupid things like "All Laker fans like Rapists. They support a rapist. Are they rapists as well?!?!?!"
Yeah, classy.
This whole "I'm bearing a grudge against a website that did me wrong a few years ago" thing reminds me exactly of that.
To say I find it a bit immature is an understatement.
~o~
And this is going to win me zero friends whatsoever, but what the fuck.........
3. If you stop writing because 1 website told you that it didn't like your story. What the fuck would you do when you get a negative review? Or a flame? Or you don't get a lot of reviews? Will you stop writing?
Seriously. What a load of crap.
Yes I understand people start writing fan fic for many reasons and not everyone takes the writing thing as seriously as others might. And some writers are young and don't have confidence yet.......yes yes I get it. But it doesn't make this any more believable.
Checkmated isn't the only site in the world. So why the fuck does everyone get so bent out of shape because they can't get published there? It's one site in a world of many.
As I said earlier, I've had positive experiences with other sites so maybe I'm not the most objective person to talk about this.
But oh well, that's how I feel.
I think in my time on LJ have already lost a couple of people from my flist because of my views on fandom, *two thumbs up*.........who knows if I lose any more because of this. But I just couldn't sit back and read any more of this stuff without commenting.
Sigh........
I'm not here trying to make light of other people's misfortunes. I suppose that is what some people may think I'm doing. But I'm not.
I just can't seem to grasp why people act so nastily towards each other over this sort of thing. People we are writing and reading stories that we don't even own any rights to. None at all.
gahhhhhhhh.
I have a story up at TQP and SU. I have Watching the Detectives at SU. I have had nothing but a very, very enjoyable time working with my two beta's at SU. ModestyRabnott was the first beta and now I have another quite capable woman helping me get my stories published.
The fact that I have published most of my stuff at Checkmated is not a reflection on what I feel about the work that the staff at these other sites put in. That's just the way things turned out.
~o~
A few other points that I feel I need to say:
1. If you wrote something in a pre DH story and JKR actually includes a similar set (or even a dead on match) of events in DH, you cannot stand up and say "I am vindicated because everything I wrote came true."
No.
Vindication? Puhleeze. You wrote something and coincidently JKR wrote the same or similar thing. If you really believe it is anything but a coincidence, you need to get your head checked.
Give me a break.
Does this mean I can stand up on a soap box and proclaim "Look at me! I successfully predicted that Harry would rob Gringotts!"
Good lord.
2. Grown ups are supposed to act like grownups. Not like children.
When Kobe Bryant got arrested and charged with rape, you couldn't go on a basketball forum without some asshole or the other saying stupid things like "All Laker fans like Rapists. They support a rapist. Are they rapists as well?!?!?!"
Yeah, classy.
This whole "I'm bearing a grudge against a website that did me wrong a few years ago" thing reminds me exactly of that.
To say I find it a bit immature is an understatement.
~o~
And this is going to win me zero friends whatsoever, but what the fuck.........
3. If you stop writing because 1 website told you that it didn't like your story. What the fuck would you do when you get a negative review? Or a flame? Or you don't get a lot of reviews? Will you stop writing?
Seriously. What a load of crap.
Yes I understand people start writing fan fic for many reasons and not everyone takes the writing thing as seriously as others might. And some writers are young and don't have confidence yet.......yes yes I get it. But it doesn't make this any more believable.
Checkmated isn't the only site in the world. So why the fuck does everyone get so bent out of shape because they can't get published there? It's one site in a world of many.
As I said earlier, I've had positive experiences with other sites so maybe I'm not the most objective person to talk about this.
But oh well, that's how I feel.
I think in my time on LJ have already lost a couple of people from my flist because of my views on fandom, *two thumbs up*.........who knows if I lose any more because of this. But I just couldn't sit back and read any more of this stuff without commenting.
Sigh........