I've been reading all of your posts about your relationship with fandom and your reservations about it (and one of the first things I remember about finding LJ, very shortly after discovering fanfic on the internet, was seeing your tag line "Being a fan helps no one" [or something to that effect]). I remember you had issues with the black man/(younger?) white woman pairing--am I remembering this correctly?--and with fandom was treating them, so I'm happy to hear you've found something about the pairing that interests you and inspires you and keeps you writing. (Selfishly, I don't want to lose you to knitting.)
The market forces are against one.
Heh. So true. LIFE is against one. But as I said to Kelly above, the smaller (non-major pairing) parts of fandom can always be a bit more vibrant, and it doesn't take that much.
(having their identities contribute to their personalities, but trying not to make them define them (which is hard)
This is the $60,000 question, or whatever the phrase is. (What's the British equivalent?) But I suppose that's the issue with good writing more generally, so it's not a bad problem to be working on. M.
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Re: Sorry I'm late to this conversation
Date: 2010-09-23 03:00 am (UTC)I've been reading all of your posts about your relationship with fandom and your reservations about it (and one of the first things I remember about finding LJ, very shortly after discovering fanfic on the internet, was seeing your tag line "Being a fan helps no one" [or something to that effect]). I remember you had issues with the black man/(younger?) white woman pairing--am I remembering this correctly?--and with fandom was treating them, so I'm happy to hear you've found something about the pairing that interests you and inspires you and keeps you writing. (Selfishly, I don't want to lose you to knitting.)
The market forces are against one.
Heh. So true. LIFE is against one. But as I said to Kelly above, the smaller (non-major pairing) parts of fandom can always be a bit more vibrant, and it doesn't take that much.
(having their identities contribute to their personalities, but trying not to make them define them (which is hard)
This is the $60,000 question, or whatever the phrase is. (What's the British equivalent?) But I suppose that's the issue with good writing more generally, so it's not a bad problem to be working on. M.