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

[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.