This has been bugging me.
Mar. 30th, 2003 10:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bktheirregularA while back, someone sent feedback on "Scarab", asking if I was planning a sequel. Actually, it was more like "please say you're doing a sequel please please please please!"
I wrote back, saying that I certainly wasn't going to write more of that any time soon, especially because I didn't know how the season finales of Buffy and Stargate would turn out.
So I got an IM out of the blue from this person, saying: "the beauty of fanfiction is that you can make your own endings."
I replied that it mattered to me, as I was a slave of canon, and doing a crossover story already was asking for lots of suspension of disbelief even if you didn't veer away from the canon.
The response?
"Nonsense. As soon as you write a Crossover it [is] AUTOMATICALLY A/U."
I don't know. Isn't that one of the challenges of fanfiction? Write a story that could be a part of the larger story, sometimes?
I can understand A/U, but still ... to say that something is AUTOMATICALLY A/U?
Maybe I just don't get it.
Close entry.
I wrote back, saying that I certainly wasn't going to write more of that any time soon, especially because I didn't know how the season finales of Buffy and Stargate would turn out.
So I got an IM out of the blue from this person, saying: "the beauty of fanfiction is that you can make your own endings."
I replied that it mattered to me, as I was a slave of canon, and doing a crossover story already was asking for lots of suspension of disbelief even if you didn't veer away from the canon.
The response?
"Nonsense. As soon as you write a Crossover it [is] AUTOMATICALLY A/U."
I don't know. Isn't that one of the challenges of fanfiction? Write a story that could be a part of the larger story, sometimes?
I can understand A/U, but still ... to say that something is AUTOMATICALLY A/U?
Maybe I just don't get it.
Close entry.
Re: Good luck with the devil bunny...
Date: 2003-03-30 10:51 pm (UTC)I hope that once the story was done, she actually did leave? I'm worried that if and when I finish that one story, she'll decide she doesn't want to leave, and I might have to resort to drastic measures like drinking her out of my head...
Re: Good luck with the devil bunny...
Date: 2003-03-30 10:57 pm (UTC)Re: Good luck with the devil bunny...
Date: 2003-03-30 11:29 pm (UTC)*sigh* That's the risk we always run when trying to write between the lines. I re-read "Glorious", though, and it's still damn good, even if it got Jossed.
Hm. Probably should've left a review there. Sorry, brain's trashed tonight.
Hope it's a better day tomorrow for you...
Re: Good luck with the devil bunny...
Date: 2003-03-30 11:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-03-30 11:49 pm (UTC)Focusing on other things does help, though, I found...