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Whoops. I can't do math, apparently.
In looking at my own website, I've been writing HP fanfic longer than I realized. I wrote Together, Alone in February of 2004. My dead!Fred internal canon has been a part of my psyche for three and a half years, not 2 1/2. Maybe JKR really did read some of my stuff.
Still, I'm glad for DH in a new way now: if ever I had a reason to step back some from fandom and really pursue some original fic, this was it. And that's a pretty captivating idea. Now I can be like every other aspiring writer and come up with something, hopefully finish it at some point, send it out and have it be trampled on by an editor, but hey— we can also self-publish, and certainly some authors have been picked up after self-published works have made it to larger publishers' radar.
I'm excited, actually, about taking full responsibility for my characters, many of which are actual OCs, and some who had such sketchy personalities in the original canon that I'd practically made them from scratch. It's always been the details of the world in which these folks would live that's been intimidating, but if I just start writing, I have no doubt that the details will come. They have for over four years: my first fanfic story, set in Rohan with an OFC, was written in March of 2003. My stuff has come a long way over that time, and this is just the next experiment. The thought of really getting started on an original fic (or two) in a a couple of different genres I've been thinking about plasters a grin on my face. And that says something.
Not only that, thanks to callumjames, I've stumbled across another fandom and one in which the author was, at one point, integrally involved with her fans and even read and commented on their fanfic!! If ever I wanted to write a fandom-oriented book, this is it. I'm totally sucked in and I only just heard about this slice of fandom as of yesterday evening. It's Storm Constantine and her Wraeththu books, in case you were wondering.
Will stop rambling now. This is what I'm like when I'm optimistic— I don't shut up. :)
- That's a huge joke, by the way.
Still, I'm glad for DH in a new way now: if ever I had a reason to step back some from fandom and really pursue some original fic, this was it. And that's a pretty captivating idea. Now I can be like every other aspiring writer and come up with something, hopefully finish it at some point, send it out and have it be trampled on by an editor, but hey— we can also self-publish, and certainly some authors have been picked up after self-published works have made it to larger publishers' radar.
I'm excited, actually, about taking full responsibility for my characters, many of which are actual OCs, and some who had such sketchy personalities in the original canon that I'd practically made them from scratch. It's always been the details of the world in which these folks would live that's been intimidating, but if I just start writing, I have no doubt that the details will come. They have for over four years: my first fanfic story, set in Rohan with an OFC, was written in March of 2003. My stuff has come a long way over that time, and this is just the next experiment. The thought of really getting started on an original fic (or two) in a a couple of different genres I've been thinking about plasters a grin on my face. And that says something.
Not only that, thanks to callumjames, I've stumbled across another fandom and one in which the author was, at one point, integrally involved with her fans and even read and commented on their fanfic!! If ever I wanted to write a fandom-oriented book, this is it. I'm totally sucked in and I only just heard about this slice of fandom as of yesterday evening. It's Storm Constantine and her Wraeththu books, in case you were wondering.
Will stop rambling now. This is what I'm like when I'm optimistic— I don't shut up. :)
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As I said to you over on my LJ, I've no doubt you have the talent, and it really seems you have the drive too. Go for sweety.
WOOT!!!!!
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Thank you so much! Now I have to have the same discipline I have for writing fanfic to stay away from it (or only write on occasion) and write original stuff. The problem there's no instant gratification for that, lol. Plus, people really seem to like my fanfic, and seem to be disappointed if I don't continue to write in that genre. So we'll see...
Have fun with the guys this weekend; did I see that you're going up there on Sunday?
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*hugs*