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rmOne more greivance -- Kinkos -- no explanation necessary.
Amazingly, the Descensus object is done, so tonight I'll scan it in and then post it tomorrow after it's been delivered. I really thought I'd be finishing this at 4am.
I don't often talk about the whole "fanfic vs. profic" or "realfic" thing, but I want to take a moment to talk about it now, because of the amount of time I spend on this stuff and because of how into the object creation and found-object aspect of universe creation for Descensus in particular, but anything I'm working on in general.
I make stuff. People like it. In a big way, that's really it. Some stuff supports me financially (a story sold, work on a film, etc.), some stuff supports me emotionally (fanfic is a huge example of this -- yes, I do it because it's fun and mischievous and hot and interesting to me, but I have also seriously, seriously learned crap about myself in the process). Some stuff matters to like 1 or 2 people, when I'm lucky some stuff matters to more. Different things are more or less useful to certain particular goals of mine, but at the end of the day I don't view any of it as any more or less valuable, creative or noble than the rest of it. I make stuff. *shrug*
That said, hell is -- assembling a book on pureblood wizarding marriage traditions and connubial relationships in a Kinkos with _one_ working copier and a lot of angry people waiting online behind you.
Amazingly, the Descensus object is done, so tonight I'll scan it in and then post it tomorrow after it's been delivered. I really thought I'd be finishing this at 4am.
I don't often talk about the whole "fanfic vs. profic" or "realfic" thing, but I want to take a moment to talk about it now, because of the amount of time I spend on this stuff and because of how into the object creation and found-object aspect of universe creation for Descensus in particular, but anything I'm working on in general.
I make stuff. People like it. In a big way, that's really it. Some stuff supports me financially (a story sold, work on a film, etc.), some stuff supports me emotionally (fanfic is a huge example of this -- yes, I do it because it's fun and mischievous and hot and interesting to me, but I have also seriously, seriously learned crap about myself in the process). Some stuff matters to like 1 or 2 people, when I'm lucky some stuff matters to more. Different things are more or less useful to certain particular goals of mine, but at the end of the day I don't view any of it as any more or less valuable, creative or noble than the rest of it. I make stuff. *shrug*
That said, hell is -- assembling a book on pureblood wizarding marriage traditions and connubial relationships in a Kinkos with _one_ working copier and a lot of angry people waiting online behind you.
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Date: 2006-08-31 01:57 pm (UTC)