A year away from fandom
Aug. 5th, 2019 01:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igrockspockHello!
I came back to say how bitterly disappointed I am in the new season of Veronica Mars, but I can't remember how to make spoiler cuts, so I can't actually write that entry.
Looking at my AO3 account and seeing that I haven't posted a story in a year is a strange feeling. Writing was a constant in my life for almost ten years, and I just...stopped. There were a lot of reasons. I felt cut off from fandom because LJ/DW were getting so quiet, I still hate tumblr, and I can't feel a real sense of community in an anonymous meme like FFA. My education consulting business is flourishing, and I started working out after school every day, so I only have tiny slivers of time in which I could write stories. That is particularly problematic because every story I start morphs into a 10,000 word monster, and there's no way I have time to finish that sort of thing.
And weirdly, Netflix gets a share of the blame. When I first joined fandom, there were maybe 2 or 3 nerdy TV shows or movie franchises to love. Writing fanfic was a way to stretch them out and make them last, because it might be 5 years before I found something else I liked equally well. Now the world is a much friendlier space for the geeky among us, and I can hop from one nerdy scifi show to another without needing to create material of my own. I do really miss my creative outlet though, so I am trying to finish one or two of the WiPs on my hard drive before school starts.
How are you guys? What have you been up to?
I came back to say how bitterly disappointed I am in the new season of Veronica Mars, but I can't remember how to make spoiler cuts, so I can't actually write that entry.
Looking at my AO3 account and seeing that I haven't posted a story in a year is a strange feeling. Writing was a constant in my life for almost ten years, and I just...stopped. There were a lot of reasons. I felt cut off from fandom because LJ/DW were getting so quiet, I still hate tumblr, and I can't feel a real sense of community in an anonymous meme like FFA. My education consulting business is flourishing, and I started working out after school every day, so I only have tiny slivers of time in which I could write stories. That is particularly problematic because every story I start morphs into a 10,000 word monster, and there's no way I have time to finish that sort of thing.
And weirdly, Netflix gets a share of the blame. When I first joined fandom, there were maybe 2 or 3 nerdy TV shows or movie franchises to love. Writing fanfic was a way to stretch them out and make them last, because it might be 5 years before I found something else I liked equally well. Now the world is a much friendlier space for the geeky among us, and I can hop from one nerdy scifi show to another without needing to create material of my own. I do really miss my creative outlet though, so I am trying to finish one or two of the WiPs on my hard drive before school starts.
How are you guys? What have you been up to?
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Date: 2019-08-05 12:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-08-05 04:30 pm (UTC)btw, lj-cut goes between < and > and then it should work. (if that makes sense)
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Date: 2019-08-05 06:10 pm (UTC)I'm not in the fandom for Veronica Mars, but watching other people's reactions to the new season from the sidelines has been...interesting.
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Date: 2019-08-06 03:05 am (UTC)I have a fic I need to finish but real life keeps getting in the way... Rinse, lather, repeat. I feel your pain on being stuck on things.
Congrats on the flourishing business!!!!
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Date: 2019-08-07 02:56 am (UTC)Also, HEY! WELCOME BACK! :D
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Date: 2019-08-12 03:24 pm (UTC)