Naval gazing and a poll...

[kellifer]

I'm pretty sure I've touched on this subject before but I'm just thinking about it lately because while I've had a number of people join me of late (hullo new people!) I've also had a spate of people dropping me off their flist.

You always know why, because interests diverge and fandoms migrate but I just wonder how people feel when an author they like moves on or stops altogether.

I guess this is also prompted by my internal struggle about spn_j2_bigbang and what to write for it. I have had a couple of ideas and I'm left wondering what people expect me to write and what will give me the best chance to finish and the most pleasure.

On the flist migrations, I'd say I'm seeing the back of quite a few Stargate people. They joined up for my teamfic or my John/Rodney, Jack/Daniel fare, I totally understand that. I feel bad when I see someone pop up on my flist after having made their way through those stories and there's a tiny twinge of guilt that they're not likely to get much new out of me anytime soon. Believe me, I know the feeling. I'm often late to fandoms (hello Buffy and Gilmore Girls) and so make my way through stories written by people that just aren't writing in that fandom anymore.

I haven't left it behind completely. I certainly still read it (and will get back to regularly reccing it, ugh I am SO BEHIND!!) and I'm actually writing John/Rodney now for Sweet Charity but I guess the feeling I get sometimes with Stargate fiction is that anything I want to write has been written before, and most probably by someone much better than me.

I mean I get it, I really do, as I watch some of my favourite people immerse themselves in Merlin fic and I haven't watched a single ep yet. Yes, some very kind and lovely souls have offered to be my dealers (hee...) and if Aussie Teev doesn't get their act together and start showing this damn thing instead of giving us months of teasers then I probably will take them up on it but I also feel that momentary flicker of panic, the no, don't leave me yet.

I'm sure people that friend me now with the hopes of shaking some more Stargate fic loose probably feel the same.

I also feel bad that I don't write as much as I used to. I hate that it feels like the inevitable slow down after the first flush of excitement and I hope it's not just because I'm running out of ideas. My job is vastly different. I honestly 12 months ago had a job where I basically for three weeks out of four had nothing to do except filing and tooling around on the internet. To stave off boredom or perhaps killing my coworkers with a stapler I wrote at work, I wrote alot and I just don't anymore.

So I've got a couple of questions. How do you feel when someone you've been reading regularly moves off to something different? Why do you change fandoms? (New shiny/show stops/you're the only one left at the party)

If I had my way of course, everyone would be writing me Dean/Rory, SPN schmoo, Stargate team Jack/Daniel domesticfutureapocafic.

But that's just me.



And now the poll. The outcome of this poll won't guarantee what I'm writing for Big Bang because who knows, I might end up writing something completely different, but it may help me actually make a damn decision already...

[Poll #1335236]

Comments

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

When it's someone I've become friends with, I will read just about anything they write, regardless of the fandom

I am definitely tempted with the amount of Merlin fic popping up from some of my favourite writers but I know I will watch the show eventually so I'm almost saving it I guess.

Sometimes though I will read something even though I have no knowledge and just view it the same as I would an original fic. Sometimes you feel like you're starting halfway through an act but the writers I prefer are brilliant at worldbuilding and so you get a sense of place and time and character even if you're not familiar with the canon.