I still ask myself... SUPERMAN?!

[clioidae]

For the last few minutes I have debated with myself whether or not I should post this entry to sunspots_ha. It is in fact lifted verbatim from my personal RL journal, and is written with much candor. I debate including it here because I don't want to upset anyone, but at the same time, honesty is usually best. Please read it, and offer me anything you can

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[dandello]

Welcome to the world of fan-writing, or writing in general. I was writing for another fandom for years and the fandom effectively died. I stopped writing for a very long time until SR appeared and my reaction was : I can do better. Thus "Shadows In Darkness" was born.

BUT, if you have a story to tell, then you tell it. If you don't you can't force it.

[teh_pariah]

I was going to say that too--how is Superman not sci-fi? :p

Taking a page from you, I'm going to repost the comment I left on your other LJ, because I didn't realize you'd stuck this here too:

And GOOD fanfiction exists to right the wrongs of BADFIC. Dear Lord in Heaven save us.

To not finish this motherfucker would be a crime against humanity, because there's nothing I loathe more than a good incomplete fic. I've come across several and been left wanting to bash my head through the wall when we're stuck with Absolut shit that IS completed (and goes on way too long). I hate to say it, but you owe us with your awesomeness. You made this bed and you gotta lie in it. I don't see myself shedding this fandom anytime soon, so feel free to take the next decade to finish it. I'll read it no matter when the fuck it's done.

That said, don't force yourself either. If you're just utterly mojoless for Sunspots right now, go ahead and write what you want to. Or else it will overwhelm you and you'll hate it and hate yourself for hating it.

[teh_pariah]

DAMN I hate coming across unfinished good fics (Tandrel Mairion's Shatterfall, anyone?)

YES. ARGH.

Unlurking..

[mariannesque]

...to say that your fic (whether you finish it or not, though I really hope you do finish it) is one of my absolute favourites because it's about *Clark* not Superman. You have a great way with delving into the character behind the tights and I've become a bit wrapped up in the picture of Clark that you've been builiding for us. :)

Thank you for everything you've written so far. :)

Now this is angst.

[skiplively]

I'm not sure whether the appropriate reaction is to sympathize with a 'dude, stinks for you' or to beg. 'Cause, honestly, I'm not sure that I've even reviewed your story (I'm bad at it), but I'm so preoccupied with it that I followed you to livejournal to find out more, and I don't even use lj for me anymore.

But I will say this. You're right, much of the writing in the Superman movie-verse fandom is worthless and beyond vexing, including some of the very popular bits of it. (And, actually, that's the most vexing bit of it.) And there are very few, even shockingly few stories which have made me practically clap my hands in glee and certainly mutter out loud to myself in excitement and anticipation of just the goodness of it all, and yours is one of them. And by one of them, I mean like, one of three. (The other two, intriguingly enough, being the aforementioned Tandrelmarion's stories, and yours and "Shatterfall" remain the two stories I consistently wander back to, re-read bits of, and panic that they'll never be completed.

Re: Now this is angst.

[clioidae]

*stares at you*

Right.

*opens GoogleDocs*

Re: Now this is angst.

[teh_pariah]

LOL.

[teddy_tips]

Sorry. This is perhaps not the most appropriate place for this comment, especially considering I can't offer you any insight into your problems, but I'd really just like to extend my gratitude for your work on this story. Someone above mentioned it as being one of the 4 stories they go back to, and I'd have to agree completely (oddly enough, I have the same four on my list). In any case, if it's at all reassuring or motivating or anything positive, I'd like to just say thank you, and I've loved every sentence of every chapter, and won't resort to begging you to finish it, because you can't force, but...I'm very close to desperately requesting that you do? :)

Anyway, you're brilliant. And thanks!

[clioidae]

Thank you very much for your words, and please don't apologize, I need to hear everything I possibly can about Sunspots, it gives me hope. I, upon seeing the fact that I had a comment here, have written an open letter to the community, which you are welcome to read... but I want to say to you personally that I really do appreciate the fact that you believe Sunspots has "staying power," that you can return to it for read after read. That is significant to me, as well it should be, and I can only say... I hope I don't disappoint you in the longterm, as I am bound to disappoint someone.

Thanks again, and stay tuned... who knows?