Man, that was inspiring. You make me all teary and fired up about being a writer >:D
Hee! Yay!
Though I've not found that I can identify with a whole sections of fandom in terms of what draws me to certain things
Seriously? I think if you need that to happen you're probably always going to be disappointed. Sooner or later you're going to disagree on something. But I guess people do have this impulse because so often there will be stuff calling for all the people who like X to do something or stop doing something. It's like herding cats. Most people, I think, find a few people that they agree with on one very small thing and some of the other things you disagree with maybe don't seem as important.
I guess there's always that tension between wanting the community feeling of sitting around at Nimbus and asserting your own opinions, because that's probably why a lot of people are here, to say what they think.
Heh--it's like fanfic again. Everything's OOC, but if you find a story that gets something important right it's easier for you to overlook everything else. Somebody else who's in the same fandom would read the same story and say, "Ahhh! How could read a story where Neville wears a hat! It's the essence of Neville that he goes hatless!" or whatever.
I really like that image. I mean, sometimes I'm wistful and wishful but I never actually have that 'phantom ending' phenomenon so it's fascinating to me.
Maybe I'm too lazy or too scared, but I really really try to never have any expectations of what the ending should be--though sometimes you just feel like something was set up. Like in the stories I do for work it's easy to see stuff like that; you don't put things in the story that send anybody down the wrong road or raise questions that aren't going to be answered, but in a big book there's going to be lots of things that aren't answered. One story I can think of that had a phantom ending for me, though, was a LOTR-fic where it was just set up perfectly so that Frodo would do something at the end, and the ending seemed completely fake because he didn't. It felt, actually, like the ending was the way it was because the author was into getting off on a particular thing and so she didn't want it resolved. So then it was weird--and it was one of those weird times I even gave concrit and said, "I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop here!"
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Date: 2005-03-14 05:39 pm (UTC)Hee! Yay!
Though I've not found that I can identify with a whole sections of fandom in terms of what draws me to certain things
Seriously? I think if you need that to happen you're probably always going to be disappointed. Sooner or later you're going to disagree on something. But I guess people do have this impulse because so often there will be stuff calling for all the people who like X to do something or stop doing something. It's like herding cats. Most people, I think, find a few people that they agree with on one very small thing and some of the other things you disagree with maybe don't seem as important.
I guess there's always that tension between wanting the community feeling of sitting around at Nimbus and asserting your own opinions, because that's probably why a lot of people are here, to say what they think.
Heh--it's like fanfic again. Everything's OOC, but if you find a story that gets something important right it's easier for you to overlook everything else. Somebody else who's in the same fandom would read the same story and say, "Ahhh! How could read a story where Neville wears a hat! It's the essence of Neville that he goes hatless!" or whatever.
I really like that image. I mean, sometimes I'm wistful and wishful but I never actually have that 'phantom ending' phenomenon so it's fascinating to me.
Maybe I'm too lazy or too scared, but I really really try to never have any expectations of what the ending should be--though sometimes you just feel like something was set up. Like in the stories I do for work it's easy to see stuff like that; you don't put things in the story that send anybody down the wrong road or raise questions that aren't going to be answered, but in a big book there's going to be lots of things that aren't answered. One story I can think of that had a phantom ending for me, though, was a LOTR-fic where it was just set up perfectly so that Frodo would do something at the end, and the ending seemed completely fake because he didn't. It felt, actually, like the ending was the way it was because the author was into getting off on a particular thing and so she didn't want it resolved. So then it was weird--and it was one of those weird times I even gave concrit and said, "I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop here!"