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Am neither excited nor appalled by the Amazon Kindle Worlds thing. Interested to see how it plays out. Does not seem especially relevant to me - I'm not sure how I would feel if one of the licensed properties was something I wanted to write in. Okay, no - it's teen TV shows? If they somehow got a Huge license I would be *all over that*, which I did not realize until just this moment. This doesn't make sense to me - if there's no audience for Huge fic for free, there isn't going to be for $0.99 a story, and if there *is* an audience for Huge fic, why aren't I writing it already? (Well, various reasons - lack of time and the decision to prioritize other projects when I do have time.) But somehow the existence of this hypothetical stage would make me want to go dance on it. (Maybe, in this alternate universe, the act of Amazon bothering to license Huge would suggest that there was an untapped fandom out there that I would get excited about possibly reaching?)
I was coincidentally sorting my WIPs and fragments folder yesterday, moving some more stuff to "will never finish", thinking about what makes me willing or not willing to give up on a story idea. Audience definitely comes into it. As fans go, I am pretty inactive on the community side; I suck at writing comments, I suck at answering people's comments to me, to a certain extent I write just because I enjoy the act of writing. But, it does make a difference to me to think that there is a reader out there who will enjoy my story. And the stories that I've had "go big" - big for me is over a thousand hits on the AO3, we're not talking about your big-fandom hundred-thousand-hit blockbusters, or if you want to go by kudos to control for the multiple-chapter problem, my two "big" stories are over 150 but under 200, compared with like 2-3K for something truly big - what was I talking about? Right, it does give me a thrill to see something of mine find favor. (And then there was the time that thing happened, which we're not even talking about.)
So, it does make a difference for me, the potential audience. I find myself most interested in writing in fandoms where I'm pretty sure there's *someone* listening, but not so many people writing that each new story isn't still something pretty special. So, of things in my fragment folder, I'm never going to write Secret Science Alliance or Emergence because as far as I can guess via Yuletide I may be only person in fandom who's read either. And on the other end of the spectrum part of why I will never finish any of those Harry Potter stories is that the world has plenty of Harry Potter stories and one more Harry Potter story isn't going to make anyone's day. Whereas, I don't know, I flatter myself that there really could be someone out there who is excited by the existence of one more new Leviathan story in the world.
Also, of course, back to the purely personal, I just feel done with Harry Potter and have no urge to spend more time immersed in the Harry Potter world. Unlike, say, Avatar, where I do still have that desire to roll around in it and stretch it into funny shapes, or Leviathan, where I have that in spades.
Of course I'm more likely to actually finish stories in fandoms where I have exactly one thing to say and it's just a matter of saying it (thus "the Inception story", "the Avengers story"), than fandoms where I have a million things I want to say and I have to figure out which of them I'm actually saying this time. Which is frustrating in its own way. I wonder if there's a solution to that. Just write more, probably.
I was coincidentally sorting my WIPs and fragments folder yesterday, moving some more stuff to "will never finish", thinking about what makes me willing or not willing to give up on a story idea. Audience definitely comes into it. As fans go, I am pretty inactive on the community side; I suck at writing comments, I suck at answering people's comments to me, to a certain extent I write just because I enjoy the act of writing. But, it does make a difference to me to think that there is a reader out there who will enjoy my story. And the stories that I've had "go big" - big for me is over a thousand hits on the AO3, we're not talking about your big-fandom hundred-thousand-hit blockbusters, or if you want to go by kudos to control for the multiple-chapter problem, my two "big" stories are over 150 but under 200, compared with like 2-3K for something truly big - what was I talking about? Right, it does give me a thrill to see something of mine find favor. (And then there was the time that thing happened, which we're not even talking about.)
So, it does make a difference for me, the potential audience. I find myself most interested in writing in fandoms where I'm pretty sure there's *someone* listening, but not so many people writing that each new story isn't still something pretty special. So, of things in my fragment folder, I'm never going to write Secret Science Alliance or Emergence because as far as I can guess via Yuletide I may be only person in fandom who's read either. And on the other end of the spectrum part of why I will never finish any of those Harry Potter stories is that the world has plenty of Harry Potter stories and one more Harry Potter story isn't going to make anyone's day. Whereas, I don't know, I flatter myself that there really could be someone out there who is excited by the existence of one more new Leviathan story in the world.
Also, of course, back to the purely personal, I just feel done with Harry Potter and have no urge to spend more time immersed in the Harry Potter world. Unlike, say, Avatar, where I do still have that desire to roll around in it and stretch it into funny shapes, or Leviathan, where I have that in spades.
Of course I'm more likely to actually finish stories in fandoms where I have exactly one thing to say and it's just a matter of saying it (thus "the Inception story", "the Avengers story"), than fandoms where I have a million things I want to say and I have to figure out which of them I'm actually saying this time. Which is frustrating in its own way. I wonder if there's a solution to that. Just write more, probably.
