The Fandom Snowflake Challenge, Day 14
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kateThe Fandom Snowflake Challenge
Day 14: In your own space, ask for help. Need a beta? Always wanted to learn how to make a vid? a fanmix? icons? Maybe you’d want to have someone cheering for you while you work on an upcoming big bang or fannish bingo?
Okay, I... this is really hard for me, this one. I wish I was one of those writers who talked about their writing and had millions of people cheering me on and asking for more (and thank you to those folks who do! I really appreciate it!). But I haven't yet developed whatever it is that makes me think that anyone else would be interested in what I'm doing (other than the stories themselves) - even though it's actually happened with some absolutely wonderful folks on occasion. And so, I hesitate to ask for this because it seems like it is so selfish and I don't feel like I give anything back, but...
I really need a cheerleader for Impromptu. This story got its first 30,000 words written on the strength of an amazing cheerleader (my first, and one of my best, though I didn't know it at the time, and I am profoundly sorry that I didn't) and the next 40k written on serious gritting my teeth and just doing it stamina over the next four years, and now, in the final push to the end, I really could use someone who is as excited about it as I am, who's willing to email or chat about it at least a couple of times a week, read pages as they're getting written, and argue with me about characterization or plotting or whatever (and yet, not nitpicking about the little stuff that'll get fixed in a beta).
I know that there are people who love to do this (hell, I love to do this, and have done it for some of the most unlikely fandoms/stories), but it still feels ridiculously selfish to ask.
I feel like I talk about it all the time, but... for those who don't know, Impromptu is my epic SGA AU where everyone is a professional musician. It's John/Rodney (of course), and there's background Teyla/Kate, Ronon/Jennifer, and Lorne/Parrish (that's reeeeeeeally background). The music part, I'm acing. I have the rest of the plot worked out, and I just want to finish the damn thing (it'll probably end up around 100k). I've done massive calendar juggling every year this goes on, and I'd really like for this to finally be the year I post it.
ETA: I'm heading off to no-internet-for-kate-land for two days, so I'm screening comments (I don't exactly know why, but it feels like I should), and don't feel bad if I don't answer you right away - I am just in a rush and will be back Sunday night).
Day 14: In your own space, ask for help. Need a beta? Always wanted to learn how to make a vid? a fanmix? icons? Maybe you’d want to have someone cheering for you while you work on an upcoming big bang or fannish bingo?
Okay, I... this is really hard for me, this one. I wish I was one of those writers who talked about their writing and had millions of people cheering me on and asking for more (and thank you to those folks who do! I really appreciate it!). But I haven't yet developed whatever it is that makes me think that anyone else would be interested in what I'm doing (other than the stories themselves) - even though it's actually happened with some absolutely wonderful folks on occasion. And so, I hesitate to ask for this because it seems like it is so selfish and I don't feel like I give anything back, but...
I really need a cheerleader for Impromptu. This story got its first 30,000 words written on the strength of an amazing cheerleader (my first, and one of my best, though I didn't know it at the time, and I am profoundly sorry that I didn't) and the next 40k written on serious gritting my teeth and just doing it stamina over the next four years, and now, in the final push to the end, I really could use someone who is as excited about it as I am, who's willing to email or chat about it at least a couple of times a week, read pages as they're getting written, and argue with me about characterization or plotting or whatever (and yet, not nitpicking about the little stuff that'll get fixed in a beta).
I know that there are people who love to do this (hell, I love to do this, and have done it for some of the most unlikely fandoms/stories), but it still feels ridiculously selfish to ask.
I feel like I talk about it all the time, but... for those who don't know, Impromptu is my epic SGA AU where everyone is a professional musician. It's John/Rodney (of course), and there's background Teyla/Kate, Ronon/Jennifer, and Lorne/Parrish (that's reeeeeeeally background). The music part, I'm acing. I have the rest of the plot worked out, and I just want to finish the damn thing (it'll probably end up around 100k). I've done massive calendar juggling every year this goes on, and I'd really like for this to finally be the year I post it.
ETA: I'm heading off to no-internet-for-kate-land for two days, so I'm screening comments (I don't exactly know why, but it feels like I should), and don't feel bad if I don't answer you right away - I am just in a rush and will be back Sunday night).
