"Joy"
06 / 18 / 02
General
[music: FFX - "Otherworld"]
"This fic was very sweet. (A bit more so then I usually like, but hey...) ^_^ A match of guys I'd never thought about... I honestly didn't think it would turn out well at all, but was glad I bothered reading it..."
This is a response I got to an FFX yaoi fic I recently finished. (Nevermind the fact there was a WAFF warning in it.) I'm not ungrateful, really, but if one has to "bother" reading something, don't bother, and don't do me any favors.
Some would say I'm being bitchy and whiny. Tough. I just don't feel like I should bend over and kiss toes because someone does me the great favor of reading my fics.
They read, fine. They don't, fine. Unless they're someone who's opinion matters and I actually ask them to read it, don't think I'm begging anyone to do so.
It's the reason I have a strict C&C by request, because, frankly, sometimes people's opinions don't matter.
Which is why I have a mantra every time I go to write a fic.
"I'm writing this for me."
I'm sharing in the hopes that maybe I can also make someone feel a little better or entertain them, but I'd be a fool to think I can do that for everyone. And when I begin to write solely for another person, then I lose the integral part of me that writes in the first place.
Bitchy? Probably. Whiny? If one says so. But as the readers seem to get more and more demanding of what/how/where/who/and even why writers should right, I'm turning the tables. Because I don't need the story to be read.
What's the point of writing if nobody reads it? Simple.
I'm writing this for me.
And newsflash to those over-the-top, "write what I want you to write" readers. Imagine if nobody wrote. Then you'd have to write it yourself. ::gasp:: What a concept.
Quit bitchin' about bad fics and go write what you feel are good ones. Problem solved.
Sorry, spammers forced my hand. Comments reviewed before being published.
Comments: 2 winds
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Hmmm. Well, not that I think you were attacking me or anything (uh, I hope); this is just my personal opinion. Well, actually, it's just what I do, which is. . . both, kinda. I mean, writing makes me happy. Writing stuff that makes other people makes me happy, too. So I kinda do both. Which is why I hope that, in the future, I'll be able to write things that make me happy and other people happy (or sad, or angry, or whatever) at the same time. And get paid for it! Man, that would be neat.
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This person's lack of tact astounds me.
Generally it takes me a few hours to get up the guts to say something to someone that I don't know in writing. And then I spend a few hours vascillating over word choice. (These times get longer when it's someone I know--except for my comments to you, which is strange, because /e-mail?/--- 'cus I'm a dork)
But that's not the point of this comment.
I'd just like to give a big WHOOP for this entry, because I rock at writing reasearch pepers, and I suck at writing fiction. But I write fiction (corny fiction, horrible fiction)/anyway/. For me. And I've just started to figure out that it doesn't matter what others think. _Because_ it's for me.
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