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Fandom-related contemplation.
Less than a week to finish rough drafts, and there's still time for mixers and artists to sign up! Get your werewolves over here! ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
werewolfbigbang for everyone!
I'm perfectly aware I shouldn't feel much outward enthusiasm towards this project, given that it's very easy to look over the author sign-up post and count how many people aren't doing some form of RPF. I signed up for House but given the characters and content I sometimes think I might as well call it original fic, which is another strike against anyone reading it unless I call in a favor or manage to stir up some previously unknown marketing skills and sell the hell out of it. So for the most part, I'm just sighing and pouring more cups of tea and going back to the document files. I know they're stories I'd like to read, and because nobody else has written them, I'd better knuckle down and do it. And anything that keeps me engaged with something that's at least somewhat productive is a bonus in my book.
This is something I've done before, and I'm pretty well used to it: writing a piece that I know won't have much inbuilt widespread appeal. I'm sure there's a great thing to be said right here about fame capital, but I think it's all been said before and better by professionals in first-year library school textbooks. I can probably sum it up by saying I don't have as much name recognition as a lot of others, and without that quality, I know pretty much going into projects they aren't going to be big, well-known pieces. They might be excellent pieces in their genres, but because no one knows they're out there to begin with, there's no way for word of mouth to catch on. At least, not judging by the measurable external factors provided in most of fandom's current venues. So it might be a networking problem as much as a marketing one.
No matter what the case is, I'm still cheered by what I've done for this project and look forward to the rest of the work before it goes live. I need to hit the libraries this weekend for reference books and there's still more writing to be done and words to be cut out, and I always like the cerebral and solitary nature of writing projects no matter what they are, from werewolf big bangs to research papers on quipu. And I'm not the only one who's not writing RPF - non-RPF work in fandoms I already like, no less - so if there's something someone else wrote that'll appeal to me, it'll really have something for everyone.
werewolfbigbang for everyone!I'm perfectly aware I shouldn't feel much outward enthusiasm towards this project, given that it's very easy to look over the author sign-up post and count how many people aren't doing some form of RPF. I signed up for House but given the characters and content I sometimes think I might as well call it original fic, which is another strike against anyone reading it unless I call in a favor or manage to stir up some previously unknown marketing skills and sell the hell out of it. So for the most part, I'm just sighing and pouring more cups of tea and going back to the document files. I know they're stories I'd like to read, and because nobody else has written them, I'd better knuckle down and do it. And anything that keeps me engaged with something that's at least somewhat productive is a bonus in my book.
This is something I've done before, and I'm pretty well used to it: writing a piece that I know won't have much inbuilt widespread appeal. I'm sure there's a great thing to be said right here about fame capital, but I think it's all been said before and better by professionals in first-year library school textbooks. I can probably sum it up by saying I don't have as much name recognition as a lot of others, and without that quality, I know pretty much going into projects they aren't going to be big, well-known pieces. They might be excellent pieces in their genres, but because no one knows they're out there to begin with, there's no way for word of mouth to catch on. At least, not judging by the measurable external factors provided in most of fandom's current venues. So it might be a networking problem as much as a marketing one.
No matter what the case is, I'm still cheered by what I've done for this project and look forward to the rest of the work before it goes live. I need to hit the libraries this weekend for reference books and there's still more writing to be done and words to be cut out, and I always like the cerebral and solitary nature of writing projects no matter what they are, from werewolf big bangs to research papers on quipu. And I'm not the only one who's not writing RPF - non-RPF work in fandoms I already like, no less - so if there's something someone else wrote that'll appeal to me, it'll really have something for everyone.