That's when I got this idea. My feelings were just like yours--it was so cool to see the story come together, and to see Femme's thought processes as they went, to see the different versions and see how she implemented her ideas. That is exactly what I would want for the comm I'm talking about, an author who shares her process in that way, and perhaps a bit more from the peanut gallery talking about the author rather than to the author, but in the end, the "audience" gaining that experience of something coming together. Because yeah, as you said, seeing how Femme worked, that was *awesome*.
I often don't want to know EXACTLY why someone put something into a sentence, or fic.
I don't always want to know. If someone did a commentary for every single thing they ever wrote, even if it was my favorite author and I was *curious*, I wouldn't want to read more than one or two, because that might ruin the reading experience. I'd be wondering how she wrote something rather than enjoying the piece for itself, and I already do that far too much with what I read as is!
I think I don't want everyone to know that sometimes I just had a flash of a hot sunny day and that's why that character had the same memory. [...]If it turned out well, then it's better that the reader thinks I'm brilliant and clever and never knows that I'm just a person sitting here with issues and trying to amuse myself with stories.
I don't know how to say it, but we're *all* just people with issues trying to amuse ourselves. I mean I read some fics, and think, DUDE, this author is a GOD, but I'm never not aware that it's a nerdy fan getting her jollies off Angel and Buffy, you know? Hoping that the reader thinks you're anything more seems to be . . . I don't know, either expecting too much from your readers, or not respecting their intelligence enough.
Unless we're talking about RL authors
That's interesting. Maybe you expect more intelligent commentary from RL authors, when the fans you've read seem to just say a lot of their bits are arbitrary. Which yeah, doesn't make for interesting dvd commentaries.
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Oh, I gotcha. Yeah, that's lame.
[info]femmenerd. When she did that fic-mix-fic.
That's when I got this idea. My feelings were just like yours--it was so cool to see the story come together, and to see Femme's thought processes as they went, to see the different versions and see how she implemented her ideas. That is exactly what I would want for the comm I'm talking about, an author who shares her process in that way, and perhaps a bit more from the peanut gallery talking about the author rather than to the author, but in the end, the "audience" gaining that experience of something coming together. Because yeah, as you said, seeing how Femme worked, that was *awesome*.
I often don't want to know EXACTLY why someone put something into a sentence, or fic.
I don't always want to know. If someone did a commentary for every single thing they ever wrote, even if it was my favorite author and I was *curious*, I wouldn't want to read more than one or two, because that might ruin the reading experience. I'd be wondering how she wrote something rather than enjoying the piece for itself, and I already do that far too much with what I read as is!
I think I don't want everyone to know that sometimes I just had a flash of a hot sunny day and that's why that character had the same memory. [...]If it turned out well, then it's better that the reader thinks I'm brilliant and clever and never knows that I'm just a person sitting here with issues and trying to amuse myself with stories.
I don't know how to say it, but we're *all* just people with issues trying to amuse ourselves. I mean I read some fics, and think, DUDE, this author is a GOD, but I'm never not aware that it's a nerdy fan getting her jollies off Angel and Buffy, you know? Hoping that the reader thinks you're anything more seems to be . . . I don't know, either expecting too much from your readers, or not respecting their intelligence enough.
Unless we're talking about RL authors
That's interesting. Maybe you expect more intelligent commentary from RL authors, when the fans you've read seem to just say a lot of their bits are arbitrary. Which yeah, doesn't make for interesting dvd commentaries.
You're so right! My pillows are so flat.