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Oct. 14th, 2002 07:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chaobell...and now, I get e-mail telling me I should be ashamed of myself and that I am a bad person for not finishing CoJ.
If you haven't noticed allot of people really really enjoyed that fan fic
and it seems you also got allot of mail bugging you to death to finish it.
What seems like crap to you in a master piece to the viewer. Trust me I know
the feeling that what you made is crap cuz you can see all the flaws and
mistakes in it and it drives you nuts. But to someone who is just enjoying
it, they don't see those flaws. You should be very ashamed of yourself...
leaving a perfectly good story line to die and rot like that. Bad bad bad
person .
=Þ
To which I reply:
Ah, yes, here would be the /other/ reason I stopped writing CoJ.
Because of e-mail like this, demanding that I stop working on other
projects to finish a fic I no longer liked, flaming and swearing because
the next chapter wasn't out yet, generally carrying the tone that I
was somehow obligated to finish it, not because I might have enjoyed
writing it, but because the readers in question had some God-given right
to their fix.
One went so far, while I was out of work and a /wee/ bit more worried
about whether or not I would be able to pay the rent the following month
than getting the next chapter out, to berate me for concentrating on
finding a job instead of writing. I may still have this one on file, in fact.
I write because I enjoy writing. Not because I wish to impress people,
or because I want a fanbase. Certainly not because I owe anyone
anything. If they like it, hey, that's great, and I appreciate it if
they tell me so. What I don't appreciate is the "hey finish ur f*kin fic
b*tch" type of response. And when I started getting more of those than
the nice kind, well, that doesn't work very well. In fact, it has
exactly the opposite effect.
If making a decision to abandon something I wasn't enjoying anymore so
that I could spend more of my almost nonexistant free time doing things
I /did/ enjoy makes me a bad person, well, then, I'm a bad person.
However, I am not now, nor have I ever, nor /will/ I ever, be ashamed of
that decision.
If you haven't noticed allot of people really really enjoyed that fan fic
and it seems you also got allot of mail bugging you to death to finish it.
What seems like crap to you in a master piece to the viewer. Trust me I know
the feeling that what you made is crap cuz you can see all the flaws and
mistakes in it and it drives you nuts. But to someone who is just enjoying
it, they don't see those flaws. You should be very ashamed of yourself...
leaving a perfectly good story line to die and rot like that. Bad bad bad
person .
=Þ
To which I reply:
Ah, yes, here would be the /other/ reason I stopped writing CoJ.
Because of e-mail like this, demanding that I stop working on other
projects to finish a fic I no longer liked, flaming and swearing because
the next chapter wasn't out yet, generally carrying the tone that I
was somehow obligated to finish it, not because I might have enjoyed
writing it, but because the readers in question had some God-given right
to their fix.
One went so far, while I was out of work and a /wee/ bit more worried
about whether or not I would be able to pay the rent the following month
than getting the next chapter out, to berate me for concentrating on
finding a job instead of writing. I may still have this one on file, in fact.
I write because I enjoy writing. Not because I wish to impress people,
or because I want a fanbase. Certainly not because I owe anyone
anything. If they like it, hey, that's great, and I appreciate it if
they tell me so. What I don't appreciate is the "hey finish ur f*kin fic
b*tch" type of response. And when I started getting more of those than
the nice kind, well, that doesn't work very well. In fact, it has
exactly the opposite effect.
If making a decision to abandon something I wasn't enjoying anymore so
that I could spend more of my almost nonexistant free time doing things
I /did/ enjoy makes me a bad person, well, then, I'm a bad person.
However, I am not now, nor have I ever, nor /will/ I ever, be ashamed of
that decision.
