origfic wot?

[lobelia321]

The evol sheldrake has once again lured me into hours of vague web meandering productive research and it has occurred to me that breaking into origfic is a weird thing for us fanfic writers. Because there are a lot of short-story competitions out there and invitations to submit work and calls to send in samples of writing -- and I'm thinking, argh, I haven't got a single thing. I am like a newborn babe in the woods -- yet I have been writing dozens of stories for five years! I have a pile of stories, a whole A4 ringbinder full of posted print-outs and another two ringbinders full of wip -- yet is any of this sendable, submissible, competitionable?

No!

That is the oddness of being an experienced short-story writer yet having nothing to show The Real World for it.

Apart from that, I see little difference between orig and fan. Except for the presence of penes, of course. (Note the pretentious plural.)

Upon three seconds of reflection, I rescind the above sweeping statements. A few more differences did occur to me. But the sentence looks a fine flourish as it is so I won't hit delete.

Comments

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, I know what you mean.