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Fanfic vs. O-Fic
Best analogy, ever:
You don't get your feelings hurt when someone tells you about a crooked picture, do you? No? Of course you don't. You just get your tools and go to work fixing it. That is how professional writers have to take criticism. If someone says something needs to be fixed, we should just get our tools and fix it.
From: http://markpettus.blogspot.com/
I love that. It's what I've been telling myself for the past few days as I've been working on some particularly frustrating revisions. I also tell myself I need to finish up OGAM ch 53 and send it off to beta. I ALSO tell myself that I might want to consider finishing up a few other things. Lately, however, I keep coming back to the origific. It's strange, because I LIKE writing in the OGAM universe. I love it, actually. It's like a little part of my mind that's become my fictional happy-place.
But the o-fic is more of a challenge. Everybody is mine. (Okay, if you've read it I realize you can argue that statement somewhat. Let me amend: Everyone's personality has been crafted by me.) It's harder in a lot of ways. And in a lot of ways, I think my fanworks are better. They're more comfortable, at any rate. Like putting on an old sweater. But the origific is something I have to do. And I don't mean "I have to" like "I have to take the garbage out." It's an urge deep inside of me -- I have to do this. Like... I have to prove to myself that I can do this. I can write original fiction, and it not suck.
So far the folks who've read it seem to like it -- they also have loads of concrit, which I value like gold -- but, overall, the opinion seems positive. (Of course it's possible y'all are just being nice. If that's the case, I implore you to stop.) It's like what![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mephistophela said about people reading your original stuff (and I wholeheartedly agree with this summation):
"...it can be quite tedious reading other people's things, and a bit of a lose-lose situation. If you like it, you're being polite, if you don't, you risk exposure to a lot of hysterical authorly overreaction and are put in an embarassing position."
'Course, anyone who's beta'd for me knows I don't do the hysterical overreaction part, but sometimes I think it might be fun to try. ;)
*wanders off to make more PG Tips and to "straighten pictures"*
You don't get your feelings hurt when someone tells you about a crooked picture, do you? No? Of course you don't. You just get your tools and go to work fixing it. That is how professional writers have to take criticism. If someone says something needs to be fixed, we should just get our tools and fix it.
From: http://markpettus.blogspot.com/
I love that. It's what I've been telling myself for the past few days as I've been working on some particularly frustrating revisions. I also tell myself I need to finish up OGAM ch 53 and send it off to beta. I ALSO tell myself that I might want to consider finishing up a few other things. Lately, however, I keep coming back to the origific. It's strange, because I LIKE writing in the OGAM universe. I love it, actually. It's like a little part of my mind that's become my fictional happy-place.
But the o-fic is more of a challenge. Everybody is mine. (Okay, if you've read it I realize you can argue that statement somewhat. Let me amend: Everyone's personality has been crafted by me.) It's harder in a lot of ways. And in a lot of ways, I think my fanworks are better. They're more comfortable, at any rate. Like putting on an old sweater. But the origific is something I have to do. And I don't mean "I have to" like "I have to take the garbage out." It's an urge deep inside of me -- I have to do this. Like... I have to prove to myself that I can do this. I can write original fiction, and it not suck.
So far the folks who've read it seem to like it -- they also have loads of concrit, which I value like gold -- but, overall, the opinion seems positive. (Of course it's possible y'all are just being nice. If that's the case, I implore you to stop.) It's like what
mephistophela said about people reading your original stuff (and I wholeheartedly agree with this summation): "...it can be quite tedious reading other people's things, and a bit of a lose-lose situation. If you like it, you're being polite, if you don't, you risk exposure to a lot of hysterical authorly overreaction and are put in an embarassing position."
'Course, anyone who's beta'd for me knows I don't do the hysterical overreaction part, but sometimes I think it might be fun to try. ;)
*wanders off to make more PG Tips and to "straighten pictures"*