Random Thoughts

[emmagrant01]

1. I don't do snaps cup memes or so-called "honesty" memes. I have no issues with people who do, but I guess I don't really see the point. I don't like feeling like I'm fishing for compliments, and "honesty" memes seem more like offering yourself up to be bitched at. Like a lot of folks, I go online for fun, and hearing what people don't like about me is not fun. I'd rather not know, to be honest. :-P

2. Every now and then I'll get a comment on a one-shot fic encouraging me to "write more soon!!1!". I always wonder if these are from folks who have primarily participated in fandom via FFN or something. It's as if every fic is viewed as a potential WIP and they want to be sure to let me know they'll be on the lookout for the next part. It's sort of odd. I feel like saying, "Actually, I ended the story there for a very good reason." But I don't, of course.

3. A lot of people commented on my recent Harry/Ron fic saying that they usually don't like the pairing but enjoyed the fic, which I (of course) love to hear. And though I like Harry/Ron, it's a pairing I tend to be really picky about as a reader. I prefer characterizations that are as close to canon as possible, I prefer fics set during canon, and so on. But with other pairings (like Harry/Draco, for example) I feel a lot of freedom to tinker with characterizations and enjoy that as a reader. It could just be a matter of Ron being a character we know really well in canon, where Draco isn't known so much, so it seems more reasonable to me to take his character in different directions. But we get a really clear view of Ron in canon, so it seems like a writer has to work really hard to justify a change in the character. Or maybe it's just OTPism -- after reading and writing a lot of H/D, I look for fresh takes on the characters, but with other pairings that's not what I'm looking for. Hmmm.

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[plaid-slytherin.livejournal.com]

2. I know exactly what you mean. I think it's more or less why I abandoned my old FFN account (also, the fics sucked because they were written in junior high...). If I write a WiP, you'll know it... because I should hope that I'm a talented enough writer that you can at least tell if the story's over...

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[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

It's always a compliment when people say they'd love to know what happens next, but unlike in the case above, it's meant simply as a compliment, without any expectation that you're actually going to write a sequel. In some cases, I feel like sequels lesson the impact of stories, and so I would think really hard before doing one. I certainly wouldn't do it just because there seems to be an interest, you know?

[plaid-slytherin.livejournal.com]

Right. Many years ago, I wrote a one-shot for an anime fandom and then I wrote a sequel... but it wasn't really a sequel, it just took place in the same universe because there was nothing to say it didn't. You certainly didn't need to have read one to get the other. (Of course, they were both established relationship of a canon ship so that could be something...) Before I posted the sequel, people were reviewing the first fic... like they thought it was Chapter One of something.

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