Thank you for this lovely reply! Perhaps I’ll somehow manage to be part of the change I want and, together with some of the wonderful people I’ve recently met, make a corner of fandom into an inspiring place for us. Now I have some hope it can be on DW, as I’ve seen some others mention that they’ve missed the journal type of discussion.
I hope you’ll get started with writing your Snape fic. Or do you need to do a lot of planning and maybe discussing your idea before actual writing? The idea does sound ambitious, and I’d be happy to hear more. I am no expert on Snape, however, although I’ve often thought that he’s the best, most fascinating character JKR’s written.
I’ve seen some posts about your bookbinding projects, and the books look amazing in the pictures. After I’d completed the long chaptered fic and stopped writing (only for eight year – but I didn’t know it back then), a friend of mine offered to me as a gift that he’d pay for having my fic printed, and I loved the idea to have it as physical books – the novel, and all the one-shots as a collection of short stories – to keep in my bookshelf and hold in my hand. But I never got the text files, the cover etc. arranged for the printing. But what you make is, of course, something different: beautiful pieces of art as such.
Remus Lupin Fest is on Tumblr – and that’s one reason why I’m not sure I’ll submit my fic. Every time I go over there, I feel lost and confused. I’ve got the impression that a lot of Wolfstar fandom is over there, perhaps because this pairing appeals to younger fans. But I think that my take on Remus and Sirius’s story and my writing style are somehow unusual – or don’t comply with popular fanon and common preferences. After getting back to writing fic last February, I surprised myself by managing to go on for months without any feedback. Now that I’ve found some interaction again but still very little comments on AO3, I think I can decide not to change the way I write – or to enter platforms where I don’t feel comfortable – so as to try to find readers and fellow writers of the same ship.
Oh, I don’t think my story of Remus’s life was originally an ambitious project in the way your Snape fic is. I started posting a chaptered post-OotP fic as a WiP on a small forum as soon as I’d discovered fanfic in September 2003, and I didn’t have an outline for a novel. But I soon became ambitious, as I started developing as a writer and deepening the characters and expanding their world as well as both the current plot of defending part-human and non-human creatures’ rights and the backstory (with no Greyback there either but a different, gradually unfolding story of the werewolf who bit Remus). Since then I’ve been so hopelessly addicted to this reality that I don’t want any of my new short stories to contradict any of it. (If you are interested and have the time for taking a look, you’ll find links through my profile, but you can also ask for a rec, telling me what kind of fic you’d like to see first.) But now this comment’s got inordinately long! Sorry!
In any case, I’m glad to have you as a new friend, too – and to see your beautiful posts.
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Date: 2020-01-21 09:25 pm (UTC)I hope you’ll get started with writing your Snape fic. Or do you need to do a lot of planning and maybe discussing your idea before actual writing? The idea does sound ambitious, and I’d be happy to hear more. I am no expert on Snape, however, although I’ve often thought that he’s the best, most fascinating character JKR’s written.
I’ve seen some posts about your bookbinding projects, and the books look amazing in the pictures. After I’d completed the long chaptered fic and stopped writing (only for eight year – but I didn’t know it back then), a friend of mine offered to me as a gift that he’d pay for having my fic printed, and I loved the idea to have it as physical books – the novel, and all the one-shots as a collection of short stories – to keep in my bookshelf and hold in my hand. But I never got the text files, the cover etc. arranged for the printing. But what you make is, of course, something different: beautiful pieces of art as such.
Remus Lupin Fest is on Tumblr – and that’s one reason why I’m not sure I’ll submit my fic. Every time I go over there, I feel lost and confused. I’ve got the impression that a lot of Wolfstar fandom is over there, perhaps because this pairing appeals to younger fans. But I think that my take on Remus and Sirius’s story and my writing style are somehow unusual – or don’t comply with popular fanon and common preferences. After getting back to writing fic last February, I surprised myself by managing to go on for months without any feedback. Now that I’ve found some interaction again but still very little comments on AO3, I think I can decide not to change the way I write – or to enter platforms where I don’t feel comfortable – so as to try to find readers and fellow writers of the same ship.
Oh, I don’t think my story of Remus’s life was originally an ambitious project in the way your Snape fic is. I started posting a chaptered post-OotP fic as a WiP on a small forum as soon as I’d discovered fanfic in September 2003, and I didn’t have an outline for a novel. But I soon became ambitious, as I started developing as a writer and deepening the characters and expanding their world as well as both the current plot of defending part-human and non-human creatures’ rights and the backstory (with no Greyback there either but a different, gradually unfolding story of the werewolf who bit Remus). Since then I’ve been so hopelessly addicted to this reality that I don’t want any of my new short stories to contradict any of it. (If you are interested and have the time for taking a look, you’ll find links through my profile, but you can also ask for a rec, telling me what kind of fic you’d like to see first.) But now this comment’s got inordinately long! Sorry!
In any case, I’m glad to have you as a new friend, too – and to see your beautiful posts.