People aggravate me
May. 31st, 2004 11:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maderrWhat's the point of posting something if you're so defensive and touchy about it that it sounds like you didn't even enjoy writing it? I don't get people. They say they love to write, that they love their respective fandoms and they 'don't care if anyone disagrees with them' yet the minute they write a fic they know they'll get comments for they get so angry and defensive I don't even want to read the damn fic anymore.
I mean everyone wants their stuff to be read and liked. Hell, I never get tired of hearing "loved this chapter, etc etc" but you know? That's not the number one reason I write. I never expected to get more than a small handful of people to read what I posted and I was actually content with that. Hell my fanfics get little or no attention b/c they're not the most popular fandoms.
It drives me insane that these people are so angry-defensive about what they're writing that it doesn't even sound like they're having fun. Granted, writing isn't all fun. But I dunno - I have lots of fun even as I'm bitching. I'm not sure I'm conveying what I want to say. Mostly it's this - what's the point of writing a story if you're so tense about it that you forget you're supposed to be enjoying writing it? I mean if you're not happy about writing it, why would I want to read it? All that you convey in the story is your own bitterness about the reception your story is going to receive upon posting. I've read stuff by people like that. All it does is drag the reader down and imho that's not the point of writing.
Am I making any sense? Probably not. Feel free to call me or counter or me or whatever. It just bugs me people forget fanfiction - writing - is primarily a pleasure and not a pain.
I mean everyone wants their stuff to be read and liked. Hell, I never get tired of hearing "loved this chapter, etc etc" but you know? That's not the number one reason I write. I never expected to get more than a small handful of people to read what I posted and I was actually content with that. Hell my fanfics get little or no attention b/c they're not the most popular fandoms.
It drives me insane that these people are so angry-defensive about what they're writing that it doesn't even sound like they're having fun. Granted, writing isn't all fun. But I dunno - I have lots of fun even as I'm bitching. I'm not sure I'm conveying what I want to say. Mostly it's this - what's the point of writing a story if you're so tense about it that you forget you're supposed to be enjoying writing it? I mean if you're not happy about writing it, why would I want to read it? All that you convey in the story is your own bitterness about the reception your story is going to receive upon posting. I've read stuff by people like that. All it does is drag the reader down and imho that's not the point of writing.
Am I making any sense? Probably not. Feel free to call me or counter or me or whatever. It just bugs me people forget fanfiction - writing - is primarily a pleasure and not a pain.
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Date: 2004-05-31 09:37 pm (UTC)lol. heck no, you never sound like that. and you write verra well.
*snerk* I dunno, HP is a fandom you love in that "omg someone actually wrote that" sort of way. Like Gundam Wing - they're so horrible at times you can't help yourself. Or maybe I need help, heh.
Nah, I'm referring mostly to a girl who's Weiss fics I normally love. But even another reader says basically what I'm saying - she's getting rather prima dona about what kind of reviews are acceptable and she sounds so angry about her fic that I'm just like "fuck it."
fic writing
Date: 2004-05-31 10:43 pm (UTC)Personally, I like it better when the fic is posted without any long rants at the beginning. Just a story ... and like you said, a pleasurable past time.
This makes me wish to write a whole paragraph or more about this subject. But I fear I do not have the time or leisure at the moment.
Re: fic writing
Date: 2004-06-01 07:17 am (UTC)lol. I wondered if anyone else would know to whom I referred. Yes, I am talking about mami-san. Well, primarily her. I've seen other writers do the same thing, she's just the proverbial straw.