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Sunday, November 29th, 2009 09:27 pm
my learning curve took a decade
I had a Moment. It is not a particularly enlightening moment. I am never going to finish uploading fic to the archive. I will be doing this on my deathbed, poking keys and hating the universe.
I have also run into a problem with anything pre-Smallville; most my cowriters are not in fandom any longer, and that is a lot of fic, both at the series level and at the story level. I'm getting the impression we're not supposed to upload cowrites, which is a bitch, because some of the best work I did in those fandoms was done with Sare Liz and Bishclone. I uploaded a couple automatically, and now I'm staring at them blankly. I'm not sure what to do about this.
Also, what about a cowriter that's not speaking to you? How do you handle that, I ask? Which totally is not a problem I am having, of course, this is totes hypothetical and there might be two or perhaps three, and I'm really unsure about the etiquette of contacting them with a "Hey, so you are pissed at me and I totally take responsibility, now can I archive our cowrites in AOOO?" Or--something. Miss Manners did not cover the finer points of archive etiquette, and I have to say, I'm disappointed in her for that.
I'm enjoying uploading my bad fic a lot, in a weird way. It's comforting to realize I have gotten better. It feels like I have more authority to mock now when I can point and say "I did that. And it was bad."
Life Lessons Learned From Fandom (and Fanfic), by jenn AND HER FLIST
1.) Subject/predicate agreement is apparently a luxury, not a right, when one is going through a particularly pretentious phase.
2.) Sentence subjects are totes optional if you do it for ~art~. Goddamn I was ~artistic~.
3.) First person pov with mixed verb tenses is not confusing and weird, it's a goddamn ~style choice~ and DIAF grammarwhore.
4.) Repeating a single line over and over is okay when it's about angst. In italics, even.
5.) Always claim drunk posting if you can. It's called plausible deniability.
6.) The healing cock is real and go to hell if you don't believe me.
7.) Agricultural terms as metaphors for sex are hot like burning, bitch.
( more things learned from fanfic 8-17 )
( more things learned from fanfic 18-27 )
( more things learned from fanfic 28-37 )
( more things learned from fanfic 38-44 )
Anyone have anything to add? This is, of course, 100% hypothetical and of course you didn't do any of this. So you know, go for it.
I have also run into a problem with anything pre-Smallville; most my cowriters are not in fandom any longer, and that is a lot of fic, both at the series level and at the story level. I'm getting the impression we're not supposed to upload cowrites, which is a bitch, because some of the best work I did in those fandoms was done with Sare Liz and Bishclone. I uploaded a couple automatically, and now I'm staring at them blankly. I'm not sure what to do about this.
Also, what about a cowriter that's not speaking to you? How do you handle that, I ask? Which totally is not a problem I am having, of course, this is totes hypothetical and there might be two or perhaps three, and I'm really unsure about the etiquette of contacting them with a "Hey, so you are pissed at me and I totally take responsibility, now can I archive our cowrites in AOOO?" Or--something. Miss Manners did not cover the finer points of archive etiquette, and I have to say, I'm disappointed in her for that.
I'm enjoying uploading my bad fic a lot, in a weird way. It's comforting to realize I have gotten better. It feels like I have more authority to mock now when I can point and say "I did that. And it was bad."
Life Lessons Learned From Fandom (and Fanfic), by jenn AND HER FLIST
1.) Subject/predicate agreement is apparently a luxury, not a right, when one is going through a particularly pretentious phase.
2.) Sentence subjects are totes optional if you do it for ~art~. Goddamn I was ~artistic~.
3.) First person pov with mixed verb tenses is not confusing and weird, it's a goddamn ~style choice~ and DIAF grammarwhore.
4.) Repeating a single line over and over is okay when it's about angst. In italics, even.
5.) Always claim drunk posting if you can. It's called plausible deniability.
6.) The healing cock is real and go to hell if you don't believe me.
7.) Agricultural terms as metaphors for sex are hot like burning, bitch.
( more things learned from fanfic 8-17 )( more things learned from fanfic 18-27 )( more things learned from fanfic 28-37 )( more things learned from fanfic 38-44 )Anyone have anything to add? This is, of course, 100% hypothetical and of course you didn't do any of this. So you know, go for it.
