Awards! (and a bit of grumbling)

[jedibuttercup]

Been too busy to write the last week or so. Been busy, period: work stuff, new nephew stuff, birthday parties to attend, yadda. And also, idiotically, exercised after eleven p.m. more than once in the last week. (That is a recipe for stiffness and soreness all the next day, I have discovered.)

Have been reading, though, and being read; I appreciate the reviews -- and the awards!! Thank you, very much, to those who voted for me in Round 24 of the Sunnydale Memorial Fanfiction Awards!







Also: a bit of venting. Someone 'reviewed' today at FF.N to tell me they liked backagainharry, they noticed it had been awhile since an update, and they wanted an email back to confirm they could adopt it. Um? STABBITY OMFG. I never mind people borrowing bits of my ideas; I encourage it, in fact. Plus, you know, the attention that particular story gets compared to the rest of my oeuvre always kind of unnerves me. But. To ask to take the story itself? Who does that, especially with such a cheery assurance I'd agree? My profile should make it pretty damn clear that (a) I'm still writing, lots in fact; and (b) that story isn't abandoned; I'm just slow. Hell to the no. *bristles defensively*

Comments

[feikoi.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

I may be a dissenting voice on this issue, please don't take offense. Sometimes a story /has/ been abandoned, and the author /doesn't/ mind someone picking up where it was left off. (I mean, people write fanfic sequels of books, do they not?) I understand that this is not the case for you, but I don't see how making the request is rude, unless the request itself was worded offensively. Now if they started posting a continuation without any attempt to contact you, on the other hand...

I realize there is a difference between someone writing a fanfic of a fanfic and the official adoption of an abandoned fic -- the second implies the author has acknowledge the new writer as continuing the "canon", as it is. You said that you don't mind someone using bits of your ideas; do you mind if people write fics of your fics, or unofficially set in the 'verses you create?

[feikoi.livejournal.com]

Whoops, just reread your wording about wanting to " confirm they could adopt it". That presumption is hackles-raising.