People add, edit, and cut without thinking whether it says something about their "process."
Yeah. I was just thinking that if you used your "post to your journal" window as a word processor, and just clicked "post" every time you worked on it--whether that's a couple times a day or once every three days, depends on the person. The author wouldn't necessarily have to think about, "oh, I have to show this part!", they would just show wherever they've left the piece whenever they pause their work on it a bit. So of course you wouldn't see *every* single step but you'd see steps building.
Then if you tend to go the perfectionist route (like me), I'd hate to show my undies.
This is the main problem I see. Though, if I was writing a fic *for* the comm, with the knowledge that people would be seeing as I write, it might be different. I have trouble sending my stuff to betas too, because I hate to show stuff I don't think is perfect, but if people were seeing it from the very beginning, when it just plain *can't* be perfect, it might be easier. But yes, I find that troublesome too, so maybe it wouldn't work.
Here's a link to both the "clean" and "DVD commentary" copies if you're interested
Definitely interested, thanks. I'm putting them on my too read list.
A community built around fanfic writers producing commentary for their own fic (I'd do it on a one or two writers a week schedule), might be interesting.
I hadn't thought about the dvd commentary thing in terms of a comm; that's an extremely interesting idea. The main problem I see there is what I said about comms tending to start with a bang and then petering out. Some people just don't meet deadlines, and then things get bogged down, and everything gets pushed back, and so and so didn't do theirs so so and such feels okay waiting on theirs, and then nothing gets posted, I'd feel like a btich for badgering people, it wouldn't be fun any more, and the comm would die. I'd rather do something that was based around having discussion than assigning people to post things. But I think I'm going to add this idea for a comm to the initial post to see how much interest there'd be, 'cause I'm always willing to *try*.
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Yeah. I was just thinking that if you used your "post to your journal" window as a word processor, and just clicked "post" every time you worked on it--whether that's a couple times a day or once every three days, depends on the person. The author wouldn't necessarily have to think about, "oh, I have to show this part!", they would just show wherever they've left the piece whenever they pause their work on it a bit. So of course you wouldn't see *every* single step but you'd see steps building.
Then if you tend to go the perfectionist route (like me), I'd hate to show my undies.
This is the main problem I see. Though, if I was writing a fic *for* the comm, with the knowledge that people would be seeing as I write, it might be different. I have trouble sending my stuff to betas too, because I hate to show stuff I don't think is perfect, but if people were seeing it from the very beginning, when it just plain *can't* be perfect, it might be easier. But yes, I find that troublesome too, so maybe it wouldn't work.
Here's a link to both the "clean" and "DVD commentary" copies if you're interested
Definitely interested, thanks. I'm putting them on my too read list.
A community built around fanfic writers producing commentary for their own fic (I'd do it on a one or two writers a week schedule), might be interesting.
I hadn't thought about the dvd commentary thing in terms of a comm; that's an extremely interesting idea. The main problem I see there is what I said about comms tending to start with a bang and then petering out. Some people just don't meet deadlines, and then things get bogged down, and everything gets pushed back, and so and so didn't do theirs so so and such feels okay waiting on theirs, and then nothing gets posted, I'd feel like a btich for badgering people, it wouldn't be fun any more, and the comm would die. I'd rather do something that was based around having discussion than assigning people to post things. But I think I'm going to add this idea for a comm to the initial post to see how much interest there'd be, 'cause I'm always willing to *try*.
Thanks so much for your thoughts.