Subject: Re: [VP] Re: Why not other partners?
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 19:20:50 -0500 (EST)
From: StarGalE
In a message dated 1/25/00 9:04:55 PM Central Standard Time,
flamingoslim@delphi.com writes:
> I am saddened at how little maneuvering room there is regarding what the
> guys can do in this fandom. I agonized about the other relationships I
> was dealing with in Total Eclipse and am still agonizing over them. I
> never really felt like I had total carte blanche to do what I wanted
> because of this resistance.
Maybe it's just me, but I have never allowed the weight of fan consensus to
play any part in anything I write. I'm aware of the majority view, I know the
fanon and canon, I can identify the various cliques in SH fandom. But when I
sit down to write, it just comes out the way it comes out. I can't force the
colors that I write to to change.
It occurs to me that I did the same thing through school, from kindergarten
on. Whenever a teacher would hand out an assignment, I'd do it "my way," not
necessarily the way "the rules was writ." Psychologically I know why I did
this, so perhaps I am continuing to do this in my fan writing.
But I will be lying on my death bed and (hoarsely) shouting "Write what YOU
want! Don't let anyone else tell you what to write! All you have to do is
make it real within the story!"
And may I also say to those who DON'T write a story because they're afraid of
going outside the "mainstream:" How dare you decide for me what I do or do
not like, and deny me the opportunity and pleasure of reading something
wonderful!"
Suz