I'm not surprised you want to leave the fannish writing behind you. It's been coming for quite some time, hasn't it? You're the most gifted writer I've had the privilege of meeting in fandom, and I would be disappointed if you never tried to put that talant to use in original fiction. I'm so looking forward to seeing what comes of that. And I'm still going to read your journal, no matter what.
I'm gradually heading the same way myself, I believe. I think that with The Same River, I said everything I had left to say about the canon versions of Clark and Lex. I am of course committed to the AU series I've started (I think a lot of people would turn up at my doorstep with tar and feathers if there wasn't any more Captured *g*), but other than that, it's doubtful if I'll ever write Smallville again. And apart from the couple of pieces I've started in other fandoms (notably the PotC thing that's currently eating my brain), I don't think I will end up doing any more fanfiction.
What I will do is sit down and write the original novel set in ancient Rome that's been gradually taking shape in my mind over the last year. I'm very, very excited about this project, and I think it's part of why there hasn't been any new fic from me for so long. I guess I've come to a point where I'd rather create my own universe than play with someone else's. Still there is this fear inside that no one will want to know me anymore if I don't post fiction. I'll have to try to be a more interesting person, I guess.
*rereads last sentence* Gah, I'm doomed!
(Speaking of the PotC project, the voices in my mind have been going: "Maybe I should ask Jed to beta this?" - "Are you nuts, she hated the movie!" - "But she always makes my stories better. And it isn't Disneyesque. Really." - "But she hated the movie!" Any thoughts on this?)
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I'm not surprised you want to leave the fannish writing behind you. It's been coming for quite some time, hasn't it? You're the most gifted writer I've had the privilege of meeting in fandom, and I would be disappointed if you never tried to put that talant to use in original fiction. I'm so looking forward to seeing what comes of that. And I'm still going to read your journal, no matter what.
I'm gradually heading the same way myself, I believe. I think that with The Same River, I said everything I had left to say about the canon versions of Clark and Lex. I am of course committed to the AU series I've started (I think a lot of people would turn up at my doorstep with tar and feathers if there wasn't any more Captured *g*), but other than that, it's doubtful if I'll ever write Smallville again. And apart from the couple of pieces I've started in other fandoms (notably the PotC thing that's currently eating my brain), I don't think I will end up doing any more fanfiction.
What I will do is sit down and write the original novel set in ancient Rome that's been gradually taking shape in my mind over the last year. I'm very, very excited about this project, and I think it's part of why there hasn't been any new fic from me for so long. I guess I've come to a point where I'd rather create my own universe than play with someone else's. Still there is this fear inside that no one will want to know me anymore if I don't post fiction. I'll have to try to be a more interesting person, I guess.
*rereads last sentence* Gah, I'm doomed!
(Speaking of the PotC project, the voices in my mind have been going: "Maybe I should ask Jed to beta this?" - "Are you nuts, she hated the movie!" - "But she always makes my stories better. And it isn't Disneyesque. Really." - "But she hated the movie!" Any thoughts on this?)