Admittedly, I'd also like to see how the drabble works out. :-)
Well, I'm glad someone does. I got the feeling people were getting a bit tired of it, I know I was. That said, I may wrap it up eventually.
I wouldn't call it an addiction, in any case; you are, after all, producing something by posting (as well as creating at least the possibility of interaction--not only between yourself and others, but between others who come across your work.
That is a valid point and one I've often argued with myself. The thing of it is - how much validity does what you produce on the net have? I guess more than just writing things that never leave the comfort of your harddrive or notebook. I struggle with the concept of fanfic - because it cannot exist (due to that pesky thing called trademark and copyright law) outside of fan interaction. Nor for that matter is anyone outside of fans of the particular show you are writing about, going to read it. I honestly wonder if any none BTVS fans read that drabble I wrote. Or for that matter if any non Spike/Buffy fans did. Yet - the same thing is true about any work of art, I suppose, if the subject matter does not appeal, you will not partake.
How do we define being productive? Creating art? When it gets published? When it airs on TV? If so what about all those wonderful pilots that never aired (there's a theater in LA that shows some of them, I've been told).What about those films that get made but never find a distributor? Or the books that never find a publisher? I suppose in a way producing fanfic on the net - is more productive than that - at least someone outside of dear friends and family gets to read it. Yet, is writing a story using someone else's universe, someone else's rules, someone else's character's - art? Perhaps more so than the novels okayed by the studio reps. Since in fanfic at least, we can break the rules, change the characters - creativity is at play. More to the point is it productive? How do we define productive? Money at the end of the day? Or changing someone's world outlook? I don't know. Been debating the whole thing with myself for a while now.
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Date: 2005-04-19 04:09 pm (UTC)Well, I'm glad someone does. I got the feeling people were getting a bit tired of it, I know I was. That said, I may wrap it up eventually.
I wouldn't call it an addiction, in any case; you are, after all, producing something by posting (as well as creating at least the possibility of interaction--not only between yourself and others, but between others who come across your work.
That is a valid point and one I've often argued with myself. The thing of it is - how much validity does what you produce on the net have? I guess more than just writing things that never leave the comfort of your harddrive or notebook. I struggle with the concept of fanfic - because it cannot exist (due to that pesky thing called trademark and copyright law) outside of fan interaction. Nor for that matter is anyone outside of fans of the particular show you are writing about, going to read it. I honestly wonder if any none BTVS fans read that drabble I wrote. Or for that matter if any non Spike/Buffy fans did. Yet - the same thing is true about any work of art, I suppose, if the subject matter does not appeal, you will not partake.
How do we define being productive? Creating art? When it gets published?
When it airs on TV? If so what about all those wonderful pilots that never aired (there's a theater in LA that shows some of them, I've been told).What about those films that get made but never find a distributor? Or the books that never find a publisher? I suppose in a way producing fanfic on the net - is more productive than that - at least someone outside of dear friends and family gets to read it. Yet, is writing a story using someone else's universe, someone else's rules, someone else's character's - art? Perhaps more so than the novels okayed by the studio reps. Since in fanfic at least, we can break the rules, change the characters - creativity is at play. More to the point is it productive?
How do we define productive? Money at the end of the day? Or changing someone's world outlook? I don't know. Been debating the whole thing with myself for a while now.