The joys of fandom #298

[graculus]

Yes, it's the latest installment.

Let's talk about this obsession for self-promotion, shall we? Like the people who use mailing lists as the forum for their little mutual appreciation societies to pat one another on the back for their mediocre and unimaginative fic, because surely that's what they're for? Where the author posts interminable WIPs apparently solely for the purpose of their friends raving over every installment and their own vapid and cliqueish responses to that ego-stroking.

And then people wonder why there's no good fic in that fandom any more...

Comments

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

Same goes for profic, at a guess. I've said before that I could write a much more marketable thriller/horror/fantasy story if I made my hero straight (or possibly even out and out gay) rather than bi. But that's not the book in my head, and I want to write the book that I never got the chance to read yet.

Gina