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*sigh*
Do you know what I hate?
When I spend weeks writing a fic, getting it just right, all the way down to the near-final draft, hand it off to my beta for the proper critique (note, at this point, I am getting very excited about posting)...
...only to read another fic very soon after that is incredibly similar to the one I've just written?
It's a bad side-effect of fandoms: if everyone knows the characters so well, very similar stories with near-identical themes are BOUND to come out just by happenstance. I HATE that. I mean, I don't think anyone has a monopoly over any fic ideas or whatever; that's not what I hate.
I just hate the timing sometimes, you know? I mean, what about that second story? It should be read on its own merits too.
I KNOW other people have had this problem... *looks around*
Do you know what I hate?
When I spend weeks writing a fic, getting it just right, all the way down to the near-final draft, hand it off to my beta for the proper critique (note, at this point, I am getting very excited about posting)...
...only to read another fic very soon after that is incredibly similar to the one I've just written?
It's a bad side-effect of fandoms: if everyone knows the characters so well, very similar stories with near-identical themes are BOUND to come out just by happenstance. I HATE that. I mean, I don't think anyone has a monopoly over any fic ideas or whatever; that's not what I hate.
I just hate the timing sometimes, you know? I mean, what about that second story? It should be read on its own merits too.
I KNOW other people have had this problem... *looks around*
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Date: 2006-07-30 11:18 pm (UTC)From:Now, cough up that story, wench.
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Date: 2006-07-30 11:20 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2006-07-30 11:27 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2006-07-31 08:25 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2006-07-30 11:27 pm (UTC)From:Okay, there's that smile I've been missing today. Thank you!
I am sorry to say the story in question is not H/D... but if you like all forms of slash, it should be alright. ^_^
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Date: 2006-07-31 12:49 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2006-07-31 04:46 am (UTC)From:I do feel the need to say that the fic in question is not an H/D fic... *hides, maybe?*
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Date: 2006-07-31 09:04 am (UTC)From:That is evil.
But.
I will read it, because you wrote it. :)
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Date: 2006-08-01 08:37 pm (UTC)From: