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May. 17th, 2007 06:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gategrrlI should know better than to join a conversation about fanfiction in any way, shape or form.
If I've offended anyone on my flist, I apologize. I'll say it right out: I'm an elitest snobby git. There. I did it for you. Doesn't change my mind; it's always been my personal bias, even when I was writing Stargate fics. I appreciate fanfiction and the time some folks put into their masterworks. But I just imagine, in my head, what some of the people I know could do in publishing; they're incredibly talented; and I want to tear my hair out. It's my own personal bugaboo. There's a much bigger writing world out there. And *for feminism* it would be great if some of these wonderfully talented writers who happen to be women could contribute their awesome ways with words on the rest of the public.
That's where I'm coming from. And again, I'm sorry if I've offended anyone in the meantime. Now I'll shut up.
If I've offended anyone on my flist, I apologize. I'll say it right out: I'm an elitest snobby git. There. I did it for you. Doesn't change my mind; it's always been my personal bias, even when I was writing Stargate fics. I appreciate fanfiction and the time some folks put into their masterworks. But I just imagine, in my head, what some of the people I know could do in publishing; they're incredibly talented; and I want to tear my hair out. It's my own personal bugaboo. There's a much bigger writing world out there. And *for feminism* it would be great if some of these wonderfully talented writers who happen to be women could contribute their awesome ways with words on the rest of the public.
That's where I'm coming from. And again, I'm sorry if I've offended anyone in the meantime. Now I'll shut up.
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Date: 2007-05-18 05:30 am (UTC)It worked great. Got my head all cleared out. And then I kept on with just fanfic for YEARS. It was insecurity, pure and simple.
Now I still don't have the heart to try to write for publication (which is essentially what I went through with screenwriting that really took a lot out of me). So I cut it down the middle: I'm posting a novel online. I may or may not make money on it, but I fucking well intend to get some recognition for it. Who knows what'll come of it?
So I agree with you, even though I took a slightly different path. But I'm back to loving creating my own worlds and putting all my crazy shit into them, knowing someone who wants to could backward psychoanalyze me from it. It's a challenge I needed much more than I realized.