So You Always Wanted to Write Fanfic

POSTED BY: Sarahetc
UPDATED: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 22:17
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LJC

Friday, May 9, 2003 9:01 PM

feh, clique-schmick. Email stef anyway! She'd totally plotz! Also, she is *way keen*. I am trying to convince her that she must write Wash teaching his and Zoe's (totally fictional) future daughter (whom we have named "Calliope" and have an entire history based on late-night IMs) how to fly the shuttle, much as a farmer first teaches the 12 year old to drive the family tractor, you know?

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Some take the high road. Some take the low road.
And some just go screaming down the highway, dropping flaming bits of wreckage.

SARAHETC

Friday, May 9, 2003 9:06 PM

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Originally posted by LJC:
feh, clique-schmick. Email stef anyway! She'd totally plotz! Also, she is *way keen*. I am trying to convince her that she must write Wash teaching his and Zoe's (totally fictional) future daughter (whom we have named "Calliope" and have an entire history based on late-night IMs) how to fly the shuttle, much as a farmer first teaches the 12 year old to drive the family tractor, you know?

It's very cliquey!

And about that story. I am torn 200%. One hundred percent of me wants to read it right this gorram minute and the other hunnert percent is jealous as shit that I didn't think of it. I mean, what good am I if I don't give good Wash?

Anyway: Right now! (jealous) Right now! (jealous) Right now!

Sarah

I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case

LJC

Friday, May 9, 2003 9:10 PM

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It's very cliquey!

I think I met stef through SV fandom, actually--she's slod's bud, and I'm one of slod's buds, and slod said "stef's writing Washfic" and I POUNCED, and dood--that's like the sum total of the cliqueness. We're more like the frat in "Revenge of thr Nerds" than the Cordettes, trust me. Crazy group of people who ran into each other totally randomly across several danfoms, who just happened to get on like burning domiciles.

Plus, trust me, writers KILL to hear if anyone's even *read* their fic, let alone read it and liked it. Even tho my hit counter at Fanfiction.net might say 1000 people might have read a story, I guarantee that maybe only 5 ever emailed me. Hence my being a pathetic slut for constructive feedback. SLUT, I tell you.

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Some take the high road. Some take the low road.
And some just go screaming down the highway, dropping flaming bits of wreckage.

SARAHETC

Friday, May 9, 2003 9:35 PM

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Originally posted by LJC:
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It's very cliquey!

I think I met stef through SV fandom, actually--she's slod's bud, and I'm one of slod's buds, and slod said "stef's writing Washfic" and I POUNCED, and dood--

"SV," "slod," "dood" -- it's a whole clique vocabulary.

Naw. I dig you. Just trying (and failing!) to be funny.

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Plus, trust me, writers KILL to hear if anyone's even *read* their fic, let alone read it and liked it. [clip]
Hence my being a pathetic slut for constructive feedback. SLUT, I tell you.

I dig you here too. You've rec'd even me. Unless I have you confused with someone else. And that is a distinct possibility.

It's a strange thing, the cold email to someone who's work you enjoyed. The first time I wrote Nicole Clevenger, half the mail was a disclaimer about how I was trying not to be a dork and also an apology for writing about Zoe so close to her writing about Zoe.

And now I haven't written her in ages and she probably thinks I should rot in the bottomless past.

Listen to me go on. I ought to look to that.

,
Sarah

I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case

LOSTANGEL

Friday, May 9, 2003 10:25 PM

Sarah, (just got back from an impromptu errand I had to run) you realize you rule over your own clique, right? So if that doesn't give you the thrusters to walk up (yes figuratively, literally would be stalking) to a fellow writer and talk to her, I don't know what will. Frankly the author clique should be stronger than the board clique, and you got chops of your own baby.

You're not some groupy squealing at the sight of your favorite flavor of the week (note to self, get ice cream when done), you're a known professional (unpaid, but professional in spirit). So go talk to her/him/it.

And I may have my hoards on the Fox boards, but you're my dumpling, we all know who comes first.

(By the way, I'll take a merlot with all this cheese! )

All kidding aside, I'm serious about the above.

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Lost Angel

WASH: Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction.
ZOE: We live in a space ship, dear.
WASH: So?

GAMBIT3

Friday, May 9, 2003 11:17 PM

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Originally posted by lostangel:
Sarah, (just got back from an impromptu errand I had to run) you realize you rule over your own clique, right? So if that doesn't give you the thrusters to walk up (yes figuratively, literally would be stalking) to a fellow writer and talk to her, I don't know what will. Frankly the author clique should be stronger than the board clique, and you got chops of your own baby.

You're not some groupy squealing at the sight of your favorite flavor of the week (note to self, get ice cream when done), you're a known professional (unpaid, but professional in spirit). So go talk to her/him/it.

And I may have my hoards on the Fox boards, but you're my dumpling, we all know who comes first.

(By the way, I'll take a merlot with all this cheese! )

All kidding aside, I'm serious about the above.

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Lost Angel

WASH: Psychic, though? That sounds like something out of science fiction.
ZOE: We live in a space ship, dear.
WASH: So?

Ok, I'm seriously getting jealous. Of which one of the two, I'm not sure. I'm just fairly certain I'm jealous.

*notice ladies, no exclamation marks in the previous statement*

Yess!!!!!! I pulled it off!!!!

Oops.

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I am *not* a monster!

TALRIUS

Friday, May 9, 2003 11:20 PM

Use all the exclamations you want. All kinds of mushy stuff goin' on in this thread.

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DOBSON: I'm supposed to be meeting my wife's sister. I've only got a few days to see her...

ZOE: I wish there was another way...

DOBSON: Oh, no, no. That woman is like a dragon. I mean, I believe she has a tail. If there's any other moons we need to visit, or if we could just
fly very slowly...

SARAHETC

Saturday, May 10, 2003 12:24 AM

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Originally posted by lostangel:
Sarah, (just got back from an impromptu errand I had to run) you realize you rule over your own clique, right?

Jeezopete. Never meant to rule over the clique. Wanted to be the strange and indispensible one. I'll let you and Succatash rule.

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And I may have my hoards on the Fox boards, but you're my dumpling, we all know who comes first.

I am your dumpling! Even if I don't give good Wash, I can still be that.

You were saying something about ice cream?

Sarah

I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case

SARAHETC

Saturday, May 10, 2003 12:32 AM

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Originally posted by Gambit3:

Ok, I'm seriously getting jealous. Of which one of the two, I'm not sure. I'm just fairly certain I'm jealous.

Is this jealous good or jealous bad? You're liking the feeling or you would like me to do something to alleviate your pain? Or maybe you're not even jealous of me and now you're thinking Who the hell does she think she is?

It is true that I love Angel dearly. It is true that I write stories about her. Some might call those stories dumb or derivative or lame, but those people obviously aren't my audience.

Point is: She's my Angel. When you're followin' an angel doesn't mean you have to throw your body off a building. Somewhere they're meeting on a pin head, calling you an angel, calling you the nicest things. I think about her in fantastic ways and song lyrics.

I don't know you so much Gambit and that is a sad fact and should be rectified. I will keep up with you and see if a song suggests itself.

Sarah

I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case

GAMBIT3

Saturday, May 10, 2003 12:51 AM

As Neo would say... "Whoa!"

All I can say is that your lines in italics reminded me of a quote from the movie "Beautiful Girls", Willie is pushing 30, and he's engaged to Tracy, this really great girl... but he's really ambivalent about getting married...
He's apprehensive because he doesn't feel the passing that he imagined when he was 18... and he's chatting with Andera, who's beautiful, funny, charming, and has just taken his little town by storm... and he's talking it over with Andera:

Willie: I look at you and I think it's amazing that there's a guy out there that gets to do all sorts of things with you. He gets to make you happy, he gets to spend evenings with you.

Andera: But there's a guy out there who thinks the same thing about Tracy, and he's jealous of you. You getting to do all that with her.

*That's* the kind of jealousy I'm talking about.

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I am NOT a monster!

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