Writing

[scripsi]

I decided to evolve the All About Eve-fic I posted recently. It’s not going to draw readers, but it won’t leave me alone, so I need to write it for my own sake. And I enjoy writing, always- only it would be fun to have more people to discuss thing with. It’s a little boring to always get stuck in small fandoms, or small corners of bigger fandoms. I wonder why that is? Perhaps the dynamics I like are unfashionable, so they simply don’t appear in big fandoms.

I finally got around removing all my fics on fanfiction.net. I stopped updating there last year when I got irritated by their lack of response over a person who harassed several writers there, including me. It was my first fanfiction archive, and I kept posting there out of habit, mostly finding it clunky and hard to navigate. I considered removing my account altogether but never got around. But recently I got a message from someone who had taken issues with the lack of warnings on one of my old fics, and who would report me if I didn’t fix that.

Now, I’m not opposed to warnings, and on AO3 it’s very easy to include them in the tags, so I do. But ff.net have never had a natural spot for them, and when I first started to post fics there, around 2004, there simply wasn’t the same culture about warning for triggering content as it is now, so I didn’t see it as important. I could, of course, have gone back through all my fics and start to put in suitable warnings, but it just felt like too much a hassle. Much easier to just remove the fics altogether. They are still all on AO3 and I left my people open on ff.net with this information. Those who have me as favourite author can easily see where my fics have gone.

I’m still in two minds if I should sign up for On Fic Mountain and Not Prime Time. There are too few fandoms I actually would want to write, and at the moment I don't want to fill up with fandoms I only feel so-so about and write a fic I don’t enjoy writing. I think I rather try for a few treats instead.

Comments

[earthspirits]

I vastly prefer A03 to fanfiction.net. Agree with you, that ff is definitely clunky. It also seems to be more of a YA-focused site, with regards to the stories posted. As writing for that genre doesn't interest me in the least, I never post there. On A03, I can post mature fics, and it's easy to include proper tags and warnings, etc.

When it comes to fan fic, I write it for my own pleasure and entertainment. The fandoms and ships I like and write for are not always the popular ones. But I do have my little niche on A03.

What fandoms are the sites you mentioned for? Or are they communities or challenges on DW?

[chelseagirl]

My primary ficcing fandom is more on FF.net than on AO3 -- quite a few folks in it are new to fanfic and I guess "fanfiction dot net" comes up more readily in a Google search. ;-) I HATE it and often get behind with stories I otherwise would enjoy because of the awful interface.

[greghousesgf]

can I say I love your All About Eve fic again?

[thisbluespirit]

I'm sorry that you've been getting harrassment there. Still, at least we do have AO3 these days. I mean, in DW, we always had the Teaspoon, so things weren't too bad, but elsewhere...

[paynesgrey]

Yeah, AO3 is by far the better archive. I try to support it as much as I can.

All About Eve as in the Bette Davis movie? I might have to read that!