Metafandom

October 17th, 2006

06:53 pm

[identity profile] lonelywalker.livejournal.com: Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

General Fandom

[livejournal.com profile] regan_v: Fanfiction and Original Fiction — "This story managed to strike the sweet spot, and enjoy the advantages offered to the writers of both original fiction and fan fiction. It got the audiences and networks of editorial and creative support that fanfiction writers can tap. But it allowed the writer to create her own characters, settings, and plots, unhampered (I assure you) by any connection to canon. // Fanfiction and original fiction. Sometimes, it's a very fluid line."

[livejournal.com profile] silveraspen: to read perchance to dream — "And all of this, every bit of this, is made possible by the simple availability of books. I'm not speaking merely of the availability of information, online or off, as that's a whole other topic; I'm talking about books themselves, words on paper, stories condensed into print and readily available. // Marvel at this with me for a moment, why don't you?"

[livejournal.com profile] rhiannonmyr: Rant and Wanky At That — "It's hard to read lighter text on black backgrounds for me, and I know I am not alone with that issue. So folks who design their layouts or webpages could you consider the visually impaired when you do so?"

[livejournal.com profile] permetaform: random post re:fanfiction and pro-writers — "I wonder, because for me, fanfic is like singing; I don't sing all that well, and I don't sing professionally. But I sing because it gives me joy, I sing because I can't *help* singing. And granted, most of my singing is in the bathroom or in the car, but I'm not going around going "OMG COPYRIGHTS" to people who sing for fun, 'cause while I sometimes sing tuneless songs most of the time I sing songs made by professional songwriters/artists."

[livejournal.com profile] penknife: Thoughts on comfort reading — "After seeing a couple of recent sets of comfortfic recs, I've thinking about what I like in comfort reading in general. // I've decided there are really three kinds of comfortfic that makes me feel better when life is stomping on me and I am in the frame of mind that also leads to reading a lot of cooking magazines, on the grounds that nothing alarming ever happens in a cooking magazine."

Polls, Questions, Etc.

[livejournal.com profile] bethbethbeth: Poll: the Fanfic Writing Process — "Which of the following comes closest to your fanfic writing process?"

[livejournal.com profile] jamethiel_bane: [untitled] — "How do you tell when a piece of writing has gone from exploration of emotions/situations to 'God, that's complete and utter wankiness.'"

[livejournal.com profile] minim_calibre: [Meta] What fandoms have given me (other than headaches) — "What about you? If you're multi-fandom, how, if at all, has each new fandom changed the fannish you? Or, if you're single fandom, what do you see as that fandom's effect on you? // What are you thankful for? What do you wish you'd known then that you know now?"