And speaking of someone who finds “earthfic” relatively boring in comparison to works that open strange and wonderful new worlds to me, I can kind of understand both sides of the argument.
Personally, I think no story idea is beyond salvaging by a skilled writer. Some may take more effort than others, but it’s not the genre, it’s how you approach it. I’m curious why science fiction and fantasy acquired the stigma they did—I doubt the ratio of good to bad fiction in these genres was that significantly different from the traditional ones.
That being said, Risto has a valid point about online original fiction. As someone who’s writing a time travel/lesbian romance novel right now, I don’t expect to ever get it published even if I do finish it, and without a connection to an established franchise, I fear people just won’t bother with “more of that doubtful crap on the Internet”.
Yeah, my imminent original fiction series is not bound for trad. pub. If I have enough readers I’ll Lulubook it. I’m hoping to rope in some audience from Luminosity, but I don’t think I’ll be able to keep too many: the series is neither Twilight fanfiction nor especially rationalist-y.
Oh my goodness! Um, yes, MixedNuts is correct that I have Paypal. I will go set up a donation button on my hub site and on Elcenia. I am concerned that there is some kind of legal issue with putting one on Luminosity (that’s also why it doesn’t have any Project Wonderful boxen).
Okay, donation button added to hub site. I’ll make an Elcenia button too but I think I’ll install it when the first chapter goes up tomorrow.
Wait, there is. Ask her for her Paypal account info or something. I owe Alicorn money, anyway; now you mention it I’m going to add… €10 per book times two books is €20.
(BTW, Alicorn, tell me where I should send the money. I promise I’ll pay you soon-ish!)
Edit: Done (both debt and book money), but I messed up and sent her $20 instead of €20.
Ah, how delightfully meta. I enjoyed it, Alicorn.
And speaking of someone who finds “earthfic” relatively boring in comparison to works that open strange and wonderful new worlds to me, I can kind of understand both sides of the argument.
Personally, I think no story idea is beyond salvaging by a skilled writer. Some may take more effort than others, but it’s not the genre, it’s how you approach it. I’m curious why science fiction and fantasy acquired the stigma they did—I doubt the ratio of good to bad fiction in these genres was that significantly different from the traditional ones.
That being said, Risto has a valid point about online original fiction. As someone who’s writing a time travel/lesbian romance novel right now, I don’t expect to ever get it published even if I do finish it, and without a connection to an established franchise, I fear people just won’t bother with “more of that doubtful crap on the Internet”.
Yeah, my imminent original fiction series is not bound for trad. pub. If I have enough readers I’ll Lulubook it. I’m hoping to rope in some audience from Luminosity, but I don’t think I’ll be able to keep too many: the series is neither Twilight fanfiction nor especially rationalist-y.
I’d personally welcome if there was a way to pay for your fiction.
Oh my goodness! Um, yes, MixedNuts is correct that I have Paypal. I will go set up a donation button on my hub site and on Elcenia. I am concerned that there is some kind of legal issue with putting one on Luminosity (that’s also why it doesn’t have any Project Wonderful boxen).
Okay, donation button added to hub site. I’ll make an Elcenia button too but I think I’ll install it when the first chapter goes up tomorrow.
Wait, there is. Ask her for her Paypal account info or something. I owe Alicorn money, anyway; now you mention it I’m going to add… €10 per book times two books is €20.
(BTW, Alicorn, tell me where I should send the money. I promise I’ll pay you soon-ish!)
Edit: Done (both debt and book money), but I messed up and sent her $20 instead of €20.