So why do wonderful writers, and there are some truly fantastic writers writing fanfic out there, spend all this time on fanfic? Probably for the same reasons you and I write those Buffy essays, instant validation/gratification. If you write a great fic - you get a reward
This does make a lot of sense. One thing that's kept my website going for over five years now, despite the fact that it sucks up hours of my time, including time I could be spending on my novel, is that it gets my writing out there and that writing gets seen and praised.
I suppose it's also my ability to analyze and synthesize the philosophical aspects of the show as well my ability to regurgitate said analyses in a pleasing writing style, but the point is I have been beguiled by the internet and the attention I get writing about someone else's characters.
But still, every day of my life I am reminded that I *never* set out to become an internet fandom personality (even a minor one), and have dreamed since i was 11 years old of being a published fiction writer and yet I am the former and not the latter.
Life is what happens while we're busy doing something else.
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branchandroot
Re: Ah yes..
Date: 2004-03-22 04:04 pm (UTC)This does make a lot of sense. One thing that's kept my website going for over five years now, despite the fact that it sucks up hours of my time, including time I could be spending on my novel, is that it gets my writing out there and that writing gets seen and praised.
I suppose it's also my ability to analyze and synthesize the philosophical aspects of the show as well my ability to regurgitate said analyses in a pleasing writing style, but the point is I have been beguiled by the internet and the attention I get writing about someone else's characters.
But still, every day of my life I am reminded that I *never* set out to become an internet fandom personality (even a minor one), and have dreamed since i was 11 years old of being a published fiction writer and yet I am the former and not the latter.
Life is what happens while we're busy doing something else.