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Sep. 21st, 2010 09:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katharosMy contract has been extended! I am now in gainful employment until the end of December. Woot! Possibility it might be extended until March but that is dependant on funding. Anyway, am very happy!
I've been eyeing up the post-a-day memes that have been floating around in the thought that they would be good for getting in the habit of posting more regularly. And then I saw this one which looked fun - and achievable! Ganked fromsenmut who came up with it.
Day 1 – What about fanfic in general makes you read it?
Day 2 – What theme(s) do you love to read most in fanfic?
Day 3 – What Character archetypes drive your interest in fanfic?
Day 4 – How does writing style affect how you read fanfic?
Day 5 – What kind of comments do you use for feedback and why?
Day 6 – When do you read what kinds of fanfics?
Day 7 – When you do comment, how do you handle the author response or lack of it?
I read. I read automatically. I read spam mail and PSA posters and the backs of cereal cartons. If there are words I read them. The best words are, of course, stories - but unfortunatly there is a limit to bookshops - and my bank account. There's no limit to fanfic.
But that's not the only reason I read it, since there's no limit to fanfic in another way as well. Reading fanfic is a way to get more of the characters and worlds I love, it can be a way to get the story I wished had been told in a published story which intrigued but ultimately disappointed. It's a way to see how other people responded to stories I lvoed and maybe see something different in them myself.
But apart from fanfic as a response to published fanfiction - I read fanfic because the type of stories it tells are ones that can't, or aren't, told in published fiction. Stories which wouldn't get past the marketing department. Stories that you couldn't really tell as stand alones, that only really work when there part of this enormous interconnected network.
Because in fanfic you can read about Giant Alien Robots saving the universe and having sex, struggling with PTSD and wrestling with the difficult moral questions to which there is no easy answer.
I've been eyeing up the post-a-day memes that have been floating around in the thought that they would be good for getting in the habit of posting more regularly. And then I saw this one which looked fun - and achievable! Ganked from
senmut who came up with it.Day 1 – What about fanfic in general makes you read it?
Day 2 – What theme(s) do you love to read most in fanfic?
Day 3 – What Character archetypes drive your interest in fanfic?
Day 4 – How does writing style affect how you read fanfic?
Day 5 – What kind of comments do you use for feedback and why?
Day 6 – When do you read what kinds of fanfics?
Day 7 – When you do comment, how do you handle the author response or lack of it?
I read. I read automatically. I read spam mail and PSA posters and the backs of cereal cartons. If there are words I read them. The best words are, of course, stories - but unfortunatly there is a limit to bookshops - and my bank account. There's no limit to fanfic.
But that's not the only reason I read it, since there's no limit to fanfic in another way as well. Reading fanfic is a way to get more of the characters and worlds I love, it can be a way to get the story I wished had been told in a published story which intrigued but ultimately disappointed. It's a way to see how other people responded to stories I lvoed and maybe see something different in them myself.
But apart from fanfic as a response to published fanfiction - I read fanfic because the type of stories it tells are ones that can't, or aren't, told in published fiction. Stories which wouldn't get past the marketing department. Stories that you couldn't really tell as stand alones, that only really work when there part of this enormous interconnected network.
Because in fanfic you can read about Giant Alien Robots saving the universe and having sex, struggling with PTSD and wrestling with the difficult moral questions to which there is no easy answer.
