Today is the day

[hils]

I still feel like a naughty child when I get told I've done something wrong in fandom :(

In other news today is the day! I will have my Halloween fic complete and with beta by the end of today *nods*

But first I have to watch SV and SPN. Oh, and post my RPS fic ;)

Comments

[padfoot-uk.livejournal.com]

And do you know, that really pisses me off? The idea, to my mind, behind fandom at all is that you, as a creative writer, are free to adapt and use an existing world to your own ends. Otherwise, it becomes little better than plagiarism.

If you like your fic at the end of the day, then be happy with it. Who cares if you've 'done something wrong'?

*descends from soapbox*

[hils.livejournal.com]

Hee! Oh, it was nothing like that. I put forward a couple of my fics for the weekly Smallville fandom newsletter and I got told I wasn't allowed to recommend my own fics, someone else had to it.

[padfoot-uk.livejournal.com]

Well, bah to that, too.

[hils.livejournal.com]

Hehe! Bah indeed!

[danceswithgary]

Been there, done that, just a few months back. I'm not really sure how they ultimately decide something has been 'recommended', though. I see a lot of fics go up, mine included, that I haven't seen specific recs on, so I also think the editor has the discretion to choose. *shrugs*

As carefully as I try to read a community's rules, I still screw up every now and then. *hugs*

[hils.livejournal.com]

I think it's probably best to just let them get on with it. I don't really understand the system. If I get a mention then great, if not then it's not the end of the world :)

*hugs*

[selinamoonfire.livejournal.com]

Why do you feel like a naughty child?

[hils.livejournal.com]

I dunno. It's just how I feel when I get a telling off, even if it's a gentle one

[selinamoonfire.livejournal.com]

Why did someone tell you off?

[hils.livejournal.com]

Oh, I recced a couple of my fics for The Ledger and got told I wasn't allowed to do that

[selinamoonfire.livejournal.com]

I thought that was allowed. *is confused*

[hils.livejournal.com]

Apparently not. The fics have to have been recced by someone else