I like it too! See, these kinds of fics really interest me, because when a random idea pops into my head and I feel the need to drop everything and race over to the computer, what comes out is the first 10,000 words of a 200,000 word epic. Ideas for short fics don't burst upon me like that; they're carefully constructed in my head...so I'm really interested in writers who have a different process, especially because I'd like to be able to write short fics more easily. (And may I say, btw, that you do it so well. I'm always amazed by the quantity of fics you produce and how they are so consistently of quality, too. As someone who barely churns out a fic a month, it's continually boggling. :o)
Part of it is that when I arrived on LJ - and this is just from my perspective, others may see it differently - LJ wasn't the only place you posted. In fact, LJ was where you posted drafts, got comments that allowed you to polish them up and THEN you posted to lists/archives/BoB, TWoP...
I've wondered about that--lj as rough draft and archives, etc as "final copy," so to speak. For one thing, I see less extremely short fic on archives, and I've always wondered whether that was because people somehow think less of extremely short fiction. Understandable in the case of a sneeze fic, though some writers' sneeze fics are delectable, but I've read some drabbles and ficlets that are just amazing, knock me dead writing, that I just don't see in archives anywhere. So is there some kind of perception that extremely short fiction is ... more raw, somehow, because it took less time? It doesn't make sense to me, because, as I say, some drabbles and ficlets are phenomenal.
LJ was for the impulses, the snippets, the fragments. It was a private space, a behind the scenes place.
I prefer it as such. I had a recent conversation with someone who pointed out that once a fic's posted, it should be done. I can see the logic of that on something like an archive, but as someone who rarely finishes anything, I like the idea of fics being on my lj so I can eternally tinker with them.
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I like it too! See, these kinds of fics really interest me, because when a random idea pops into my head and I feel the need to drop everything and race over to the computer, what comes out is the first 10,000 words of a 200,000 word epic. Ideas for short fics don't burst upon me like that; they're carefully constructed in my head...so I'm really interested in writers who have a different process, especially because I'd like to be able to write short fics more easily. (And may I say, btw, that you do it so well. I'm always amazed by the quantity of fics you produce and how they are so consistently of quality, too. As someone who barely churns out a fic a month, it's continually boggling. :o)
Part of it is that when I arrived on LJ - and this is just from my perspective, others may see it differently - LJ wasn't the only place you posted. In fact, LJ was where you posted drafts, got comments that allowed you to polish them up and THEN you posted to lists/archives/BoB, TWoP...
I've wondered about that--lj as rough draft and archives, etc as "final copy," so to speak. For one thing, I see less extremely short fic on archives, and I've always wondered whether that was because people somehow think less of extremely short fiction. Understandable in the case of a sneeze fic, though some writers' sneeze fics are delectable, but I've read some drabbles and ficlets that are just amazing, knock me dead writing, that I just don't see in archives anywhere. So is there some kind of perception that extremely short fiction is ... more raw, somehow, because it took less time? It doesn't make sense to me, because, as I say, some drabbles and ficlets are phenomenal.
LJ was for the impulses, the snippets, the fragments. It was a private space, a behind the scenes place.
I prefer it as such. I had a recent conversation with someone who pointed out that once a fic's posted, it should be done. I can see the logic of that on something like an archive, but as someone who rarely finishes anything, I like the idea of fics being on my lj so I can eternally tinker with them.