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| Is your fanfiction writing and reading a secret? |
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| I told my friends/family but I don't think they paid attention/remember |
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| Only my significant other knows |
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| Oh, I'll tell anyone - I don't care! |
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Sulriel
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| Viv wrote: | I'd love to know someone offline who gave a crap what I wrote, fanfiction or not. But that just isn't the case. Everyone knows that I write (and edit), so they all send me their attempts, but nobody reads me or cares particularly what I write. *shrug*
Reading over, I think that sounds bitter. But I'm not. It's just the way things are. Like being very into football or something when no one else around shares your passion. |
Yeah. LOL. What she said. Everyone knows I write. no one cares much what it is past the usual required polite conversation.
I've found it easier to say I write historical fantasy, horror and elf smut rather then try to explain in any more detail.
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Sulriel
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| Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 12:41 pm Post subject: Re: I can't keep secrets... |
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| NeumeIndil wrote: | | NierielRaina wrote: |
But yes, there are those who roll their eyes or snicker and I just really don't care. Fanfiction is such a large part of my life and my interests that it often holds more weight to me than the idiots who look down on me for it. Most people, however, even if they don't think fanfiction is serious writing (very few of them), are polite enough to understand it's something I love and don't make fun or belittle me for it. |
Unfortunately since one of my majors in college was creative writing, my friends expect that while I'm working a minimum wage + benefits job to pay the bills, I'm "supposed" to be turning into the next Carson McCullers or Wendy Wasserstein, typing away feverishly into the night after 9.5 hrs on my feet 5 days a week. When I've told some of them that yes, I do still regularly stay up until 2AM writing, only it's LotR fan fic, they're disappointed and, in one case, directly ridiculed me for it. "Oh! Are you daydreaming about fucking elves because you can't get laid for real?" "No, actually. Horse Lords, ya' dip shit!"  |
Most people have NO CLUE what original fiction and 'being published' is all about. it's very little about the writing.
write what you enjoy. if you want to see your name on a cover on the shelf - that's about 14 additional balls of wax.
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Viv
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| Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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NiRi, don't let the "original is best" folks get you down, ever. It's the same adventure, just a helluva lot lonelier.
Neume, am glad to hear that you gave your friend the verbal smack-down, else us other smut-ficcers might have to get our hands dirty. And most of us have thoroughly researched fighting techniques (which, although totally not the same as actually *being* archers and swordsmen, means that we have an awful lot of pointy things handy, on average).
Al... as always when you mention your ex, I don't know whether to laugh or cry or just hurrah that you've gotten away from him.
Actually, I mentioned to my Sis not fic per se, but my involvement in fandom recently only to find out that she's big into CSI fandom and has been for years. Who knew! It was totally a bonding thing for us. |
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NeumeIndil
Joined: 06 Jun 2005
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Location: St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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| Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 1:49 am Post subject: Re: I can't keep secrets... |
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| Sulriel wrote: | | write what you enjoy. if you want to see your name on a cover on the shelf - that's about 14 additional balls of wax. |
Exactly why I'm here with 3 or 4 WIPs posted and a couple more on my hard drive. 
As for the smut thing, I think that often adds a shade of stigma completely its own. It's one thing to write cute fluffy stories about Frodo reading to Sam about the elves. It's another thing entirely to turn Glorfindel or Thranduil into a complete player and stage a cat fight between a woman and an elleth that turns into a threesome.  (And NO I'm not writing that!) Telling people I write fic was sometimes acceptable, but telling them I wrote smut was what brought out the claws.
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eiranae
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| Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:51 am Post subject: |
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My husband knows. I even make him read some of it sometimes. He really hates to though, so I don't push it on him very often.
My oldest (twins) have read my HP stuff. They are very supportive about it. Other than that, I don't get much input. There are others who know I write it--my brother, my mom, my sis-in-law--but they aren't really into it.
Most of my support comes from online friends.
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Alassante
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| Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 8:42 am Post subject: |
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| eiranae wrote: | | My oldest (twins) have read my HP stuff. They are very supportive about it. |
See that's cool. If I had a child young enough to still be interested in being read to or read much (at 19 my son doesn't read anymore - I'm hoping that will change in a few years), I'd write stories for them. Its very cool your kids read it. You can basically write stories the way *they* want it rather than the way the original author wrote it lol
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eiranae
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| Alassante wrote: | | eiranae wrote: | | My oldest (twins) have read my HP stuff. They are very supportive about it. |
See that's cool. If I had a child young enough to still be interested in being read to or read much (at 19 my son doesn't read anymore - I'm hoping that will change in a few years), I'd write stories for them. Its very cool your kids read it. You can basically write stories the way *they* want it rather than the way the original author wrote it lol |
That's true. My twins are my biggest fans. In fact, they've asked to read some of my stories over and over again (which really gives me a power trip lemme tell ya.) They are the age group that I would eventually like to write to, so I take their insights pretty seriously. It's nice, when I'm feeling really bad about my writing, to have them say, "Mom, can I read your Scorpius story again." 
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NaughtyNarrations
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| Alassante wrote: | | eiranae wrote: | | My oldest (twins) have read my HP stuff. They are very supportive about it. |
See that's cool. If I had a child young enough to still be interested in being read to or read much (at 19 my son doesn't read anymore - I'm hoping that will change in a few years), I'd write stories for them. Its very cool your kids read it. You can basically write stories the way *they* want it rather than the way the original author wrote it lol |
Oh yes! My 13 year old daughter is my biggest fan! She's read all...er, most of my work (Not the smut! LOL) and she's also writing fanfic herself now. So it's a family thing... |
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EdgeOfDark
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My wife is my biggest supporter, but my whole family enjoys my work, and keep urging me on towards that novel! It's a really nice feeling.
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dolarabee
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| Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 12:59 am Post subject: |
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That's nice to hear, EoD. Nice to know it's not all bad out there!
do.
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Jael
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| Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 7:12 pm Post subject: Re: I can't keep secrets... |
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| Quote: | | in one case, directly ridiculed me for it. "Oh! Are you daydreaming about fucking elves because you can't get laid for real?" "No, actually. Horse Lords, ya' dip shit!" |
About a year ago I admitted to an in-law that I wrote fanfiction when he asked me how I spent my time, and he professed horror, accusing me of plagiarism and theft of intellectual property. The discussion ended very uncomfortably, and I don't talk about it anymore. |
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EdgeOfDark
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| Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 7:34 pm Post subject: Re: I can't keep secrets... |
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| Jael wrote: | | Quote: | | in one case, directly ridiculed me for it. "Oh! Are you daydreaming about fucking elves because you can't get laid for real?" "No, actually. Horse Lords, ya' dip shit!" |
About a year ago I admitted to an in-law that I wrote fanfiction when he asked me how I spent my time, and he professed horror, accusing me of plagiarism and theft of intellectual property. The discussion ended very uncomfortably, and I don't talk about it anymore. |
Sheesh, what a fucktard, dolarabee. Sorry, but that in-law definitely has a corncob shoved up their ass.
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Haleth
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It's a revelation to me that fanfic writers are uncomfortable to admit they write smut. I've often felt like the odd one out because I don't tend to write smut.
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EdgeOfDark
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| Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 8:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Haleth wrote: | | It's a revelation to me that fanfic writers are uncomfortable to admit they write smut. I've often felt like the odd one out because I don't tend to write smut. |
It's kinda like how some people sneak into a porn store with hoodies and sunglasses!
The only reason I was embarassed to write smut was because I didn't have enough 'technical' knowledge, and was afraid my stuff would sound stupid.
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NeumeIndil
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I don't know where everyone else is, but I live in the Rust Belt of the United States, a country founded by people so uptight the English kicked them out (thank you Robin Williams for letting me borrow that line).
"Stealing" from someone is far less sinful than Lust, according to a good number of my neighbors. Seeing desire, lust, or eroticism as a natural part of being *alive* and *human* just doesn't occur to them. Sex is "bad" and by not only appreciating it, but inciting thoughts of it in others, I'm damned to Dante's second level of Hell in many minds.
And those people also vote.
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