Tossing Out a Question/Idea

[scribblemyname]

Floating an idea just to see if this holds any interest for anyone but me. A lot of us fanficcers are original ficcers too and I don't know about you, but I am both

1) motivated by gift exchanges
2) more thrilled by fanfic than a review

Would anyone be interested in an exchange (time of year uncertain) where original ficcers could nominate any of their freely available (with coupon code or password fine) fiction or narrative poetry and then either write for it and/or receive fic for it?

I know there are a few folks I know who I love requesting fic of and love writing fic for their worlds. I was over the moon the two times I got fanfic written of my own stuff. I also accomplish far more original fiction when someone's prompting me.

Is this just me? Would anyone else be interested?

Comments

[hiddencait.livejournal.com]

Hmm this is hard because I know a lot of us keep our original fic personas and fanfic personas seperate? That or are still in the query trenches and dont have much up and available. I mean, I've got short stories out in anthologies, but through companies so I couldn't give away free copies you know?

Fanfic could be a blast, but I just don't know how easy it would be to write fic for a short story.

(Hell, I'd even love reviews on our stuff honestly - it's tragically slim for both anthologies right now. Decent sales but no reviews.)

In a slightly similar vein - I am the mod of a SADLY mostly abandoned group I created for FakeTV casts so people could write fic for them. Few people ever participated though. It was a moderated group though since it was original and needed to be password/members only in case of eventual publishing.

[scribblemyname]

I hadn't thought of moderating/passwording an entire comm, but that's probably the best way to do it.

Honestly, I wouldn't expect many participants to be interested. I almost didn't ask if ANY would be interested. I'd be happy if there were enough to make the exchange enjoyable, which could be as few as five or six, tbh.

I hadn't thought of short stories being hard. I admit to writing fic for shorts as well as poetry or song lyrics, which are shorter than short stories. But that didn't happen, come to think of it, until after Yuletide. So there's that.

Thinking...

[hiddencait.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's definitely possible. I just don't know how to make it work unfortunately.

[scribblemyname]

I've ideas, but I don't want to try refining/implementing if no one's interested.

I used to have a guaranteed source of original fiction prompts whenever I opened up a thread, but she recently left the interwebz and I owe her a big fic anyway, so I'm kind of missing that kind of inspiration for original work.

[hiddencait.livejournal.com]

True true. It would be a pain to end up feeling like you wasted that energy.

I've mostly been searching out sci-fi/fantasy lit mags or anthologies to try to submit to. Some of them have themes, and that makes it pretty easy to get my brain going.

[alphaflyer.livejournal.com]

I have only one original piece, which I never posted anywhere (it's ... ahem ... pretty much NC-17 and was a prezzie for my husband). I'd be willing to put it out there for people I trust to have a look at, but other than that, I still love writing fanfic for the time when I decide to attempt the Great Canadian Novel.

[scribblemyname]

NC-17? :bats eyelashes:

I think the trust issue is the one that's hard. I know I'm fairly open with my work (or at least the short stuff), but not everyone is and I hadn't thought of that.

[quitehopeless.livejournal.com]

It seems like a very interesting idea to me. I mean, I don't do exchanges and I don't really have original worlds of my own and the couple times I tried original stuff for comment fic it didn't go so well, but I wouldn't mind having a good reason to show people original stuff especially if it was stuff they wanted to see in the first place.

(Also... if I made up background that will likely be inaccurate for Angie to fill that prompt from today is that okay because a line started in my head but they haven't told us much about her, so I'm sure I'll be wrong about what I was thinking.)

[scribblemyname]

Original doesn't get as much attention at comment_fic, but I liked it and I think I wasn't alone.

The key part of making the idea work would be the nomination process, but I'm not sure if there are enough people willing to nominate their work for it.

[quitehopeless.livejournal.com]

Oh, okay. Thanks.

Yeah, I can see that. I don't actually have a lot of original stuff to nominate because most of mine is unformed and unfinished.

I wonder if a friend I made on A03 would be interested. She's got a blog and I think she's got original fiction on it, so that might be something she'd be interested in doing. There are probably others who have that sort of thing, too, but I don't think I know any.

[scribblemyname]

Most of my pieces are short because I write in worlds instead of novels (fanfic habits, go figure), but I have a novelette and some longer short stories that when taken together make up some good stuff.

[quitehopeless.livejournal.com]

I have two shorts to my name, though I suppose with the way that one fic was trying to become all about the OCs, I could pull them out and make that a story of some kind maybe.

I'm not sure anyone would want to fic off my stuff, though. Shanachie did like the idea of giving Ragnar a love interest/partner so there's so interest there, I guess.

What about the people that gave you fanfic for your stuff already? Are they interested?

[scribblemyname]

One probably not. At all. One's on this thread.

[quitehopeless.livejournal.com]

Oh. I guess I can see the difficulty. I didn't sign up for that other exchange because I didn't think I could do anything for others and wasn't sure I'd leave anything open for people to write for me. That might be very hard for people to do.

I just don't really have anywhere for original fic, so the idea was appealing.

[tielan]

I have nothing formally published in the world of original fiction. And anything that I would want people to write fanfic for is unfinished, alas...

[scribblemyname]

Makes sense.

[in-the-blue.livejournal.com]

It's a concept!

If original stuff isn't freely available, though, it'd have to go somewhere locked with very trustworthy participants, because the minute something's published in an open comm or blog (not just an excerpt, but the complete work), it becomes already published and not eligible for submission to most markets.

There are a bunch of ways this could be done. It's a really interesting idea.

[scribblemyname]

I do like the idea of a locked comm for handling privacy. I also think most of the ficcers I know are pretty trustworthy with IP (fanfic habit aside). :mulls:

I can figure out how to do it, just not sure if anyone would actually want to. Right now, I got an interest of three really.