emmagrant01: (coffee)
[personal profile] emmagrant01
1. Not buying a permanent account. Nope.

2. [livejournal.com profile] sa_lulz is KILLING me, I swear!!

3. My new favorite catchphrase: "YOU ARE PROJECTING YOUR INTELLECTUALISM ONTO PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT." *snerk*

4. There was a great conversation about fandom burnout in the last episode of [livejournal.com profile] slashcast between [livejournal.com profile] charlotteschaos, [livejournal.com profile] gmth, and [livejournal.com profile] themostepotente, and one of the points they brought up was that they thought the proliferation of fic fests, challenges and exchanges in the last couple of years was a big contributing factor. And you know, that made SO much sense to me.

In the last year, every fic I've written has been for a challenge, exchange, or fest. Every single one. It's been a year since I've written something without a deadline, without having to worry about it meeting the standards of the person modding the fest, or without worrying that it wasn't going to measure up to someone else's expectations. It's been a whole year since I've written something just for me. o_0

And you know, I think that's almost entirely responsible for my fandom burnout in the last year. Writing has become a chore, something that feels an awful lot like work. I get an assignment with a deadline, and I spend weeks completely baffled about what I'm going to do, have to force myself to sit down and work on it, and end up pulling the equivalent of an all-nighter to get it done. The fics I've written in the last year have been okay, but I thought most of them could have been a lot better. And while it's true that there are some fics I would never have written otherwise (like Draco Malfoy is a Stupid Wanker), there haven't been any fics that I wrote because I was obsessive about a story and thought about it nonstop, for which the act of writing them down was actually pleasurable. I miss that.

I'm working on a fic now that's so ridiculously overdue for its fest that I've stopped worrying about the deadline. I'm taking my time with it, and I'm having more fun writing it than I can remember having in a long time. I think I'm going to lay off the fests for a while.

who is that guy?

Date: 2007-06-20 05:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] calmnla.livejournal.com
I have to go back to comment on the loud guy with more decibels than brains. OMG I avoid people like that but I forced myself to listen so I don't forget people like that exist. Sometimes I wish I had a degree in psychology so I could distance myself and place him in categories for understanding what happened to him to warp him like that. But I don't. I lost track of how many times he used his tagline about "projecting intellectualism" which I have to think somebody must have once told him just before he was laughed at by a roomful of people, such a humiliating experience it stayed with him and he now - ahem - projects his flaw onto people who have no idea what he is talking about. Maybe I do deserve that degree. The freaky thing is, I can't figure out what he is - what his stance is. Mostly he seems to enjoy telling women what's what. Ick.

Re: who is that guy?

Date: 2007-06-20 06:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] emmagrant01.livejournal.com
I know! I've listened to it twice, and it's hard to figure out what he's actually trying to say. It's like he's enjoying hearing himself make intellectual-sounding remarks and isn't really listening to what the other person is saying at all. :-P

October 2015

S M T W T F S
    123
45678910
11121314151617
18192021222324
252627 28293031

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jul. 30th, 2025 01:46 am
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios