p_zeitgeist (![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} p_zeitgeist) wrote in ![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} metafandom,@ 2010-02-08 20:38:00 |
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Monday, February 8, 2010
- kaigou: three things! just three!: In general, I don't have a problem with a fanfic writer who poaches his/her own work for use in an ofic. You'll see the advice all over the place: you can get away with basing an original work on a derived work, as long as you file off the serial numbers.
All good and well, but how does one know just how much filing is enough? - rahirah: On Writing Children: "So you want to write babyfic, but don't want to get tarred with the dread brush of 'Eeeeew, babyfic!'"
Well, the bad news is, you can't avoid the dread brush no matter how hard you try. The good news is, you can take steps to ensure that if some babyfic hater clicks on your story link by accident, they won't immediately click away. If you play your cards right, you may even get the coveted "I usually hate babyfic, but..." feedback. So let us say that you've given in to the compulsion to make your favorite characters breed. What next? - princessofgeeks: "social networking doesn't scale": Clive Thompson writes: "...Technically speaking, online social-networking tools ought to be great at fostering these sorts of clusters. ... But when the conversation gets big enough, it shuts down. Not only do audiences feel estranged, the participants also start self-censoring."
...what's the magic number where social network lapses back into old-fashioned broadcasting or column-writing, in your experience?