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.