Fic Writing and Connecting
Jan. 11th, 2020 03:31 pmChallenge #5
Comment to someone you haven't ever interacted with before or introduce yourself to someone you've briefly interacted with and friend/follow them.
For the last couple of weeks I’ve been glad to spend most of my fandom time on talking to new friends. Having already commented once on Snowflake Challenge # 5, I’m now making a new comment inviting people here. If there’s anyone more or less new who’s found the way here, welcome and please feel free to say hi and anything else you want to!
I’ve managed to continue the HP – or rather RL (and yes, I find it appropriate that RL stands for real life as well as Remus Lupin) – fics I started in late December, focusing on one of them, which is still not longer than 1600 words, while the other is only 440 words. I’m in no hurry, and happy with just writing a bit almost every day. Even though both stories are for fests, they are not gifts, and I feel free enough to write what and how I want. In any case, both are still being written in third person.
I’ve met excellent writers, wonderful people with whom I’ve got various, surprising things in common. And I’ve got a praising review of a fic at AO3 (and can’t resist linking to it: Sense of Strategy).
More generally, I’m happy to have revived hopes for a community where people could support, review, share and rec each other’s writing and make visible any kind of queer and subversive stories, as well as stories which are usually disregarded at the outset due to features in the narrative style. (*Cough* First-person narrative… *cough*… is perhaps not the only feature like that.) Because while it’s essential that we dare write whatever we want, (and I hope![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
necessarian won’t mind I’m paraphrasing her Challenge-Four post) it's a huge part of fandom experience to be able to share your work and get people telling you what they liked about it: it helps improve writing, and it's a valuable source of social connection, and fandom is at its best when it's about sharing other people's works, too.
Now I'm off to read fic so as to comment and rec and do my little share in making 2020 a year of reccing.
Comment to someone you haven't ever interacted with before or introduce yourself to someone you've briefly interacted with and friend/follow them.
For the last couple of weeks I’ve been glad to spend most of my fandom time on talking to new friends. Having already commented once on Snowflake Challenge # 5, I’m now making a new comment inviting people here. If there’s anyone more or less new who’s found the way here, welcome and please feel free to say hi and anything else you want to!
I’ve managed to continue the HP – or rather RL (and yes, I find it appropriate that RL stands for real life as well as Remus Lupin) – fics I started in late December, focusing on one of them, which is still not longer than 1600 words, while the other is only 440 words. I’m in no hurry, and happy with just writing a bit almost every day. Even though both stories are for fests, they are not gifts, and I feel free enough to write what and how I want. In any case, both are still being written in third person.
I’ve met excellent writers, wonderful people with whom I’ve got various, surprising things in common. And I’ve got a praising review of a fic at AO3 (and can’t resist linking to it: Sense of Strategy).
More generally, I’m happy to have revived hopes for a community where people could support, review, share and rec each other’s writing and make visible any kind of queer and subversive stories, as well as stories which are usually disregarded at the outset due to features in the narrative style. (*Cough* First-person narrative… *cough*… is perhaps not the only feature like that.) Because while it’s essential that we dare write whatever we want, (and I hope
necessarian won’t mind I’m paraphrasing her Challenge-Four post) it's a huge part of fandom experience to be able to share your work and get people telling you what they liked about it: it helps improve writing, and it's a valuable source of social connection, and fandom is at its best when it's about sharing other people's works, too.Now I'm off to read fic so as to comment and rec and do my little share in making 2020 a year of reccing.
