Thank you so much for taking the time to leave this comment. It was sobering to read, and I've been thinking about what you wrote on and off for the past few days.
First of all, sharing your writing metrics - "a year and a half, 20-30 hours a week, researching and planning and writing an 8-chapter, 52K word fanfic of professional quality" - makes me feel less weird and alone about the metrics of my own fandom writing. I feel that writers generally don't talk about these sorts of details unless they had, like, a wildly productive session, so it's good to know what a normal rate of progress looks like.
I also want to say that, for what it's worth, I fucking love your Final Fantasy fic. I'm not a huge FFX fan and would generally never read fic about it, but Love Her and Despair was one of my online happy places a few years ago. I don't think I ever commented on it, probably because I didn't feel like I was a big enough deal in the fandom to have anything worth saying, but you never know who's silently reading your fic and may one day, idk, decide to teach a college class based on your meta.
Anyway, this is an idea I've been playing around with regarding the fic I discussed in this post, but I wonder if you ever consider filing off the serial numbers of your lesser-trafficed fic and submitting it, if not to a magazine or an agent, then to a writer's workshop?
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First of all, sharing your writing metrics - "a year and a half, 20-30 hours a week, researching and planning and writing an 8-chapter, 52K word fanfic of professional quality" - makes me feel less weird and alone about the metrics of my own fandom writing. I feel that writers generally don't talk about these sorts of details unless they had, like, a wildly productive session, so it's good to know what a normal rate of progress looks like.
I also want to say that, for what it's worth, I fucking love your Final Fantasy fic. I'm not a huge FFX fan and would generally never read fic about it, but Love Her and Despair was one of my online happy places a few years ago. I don't think I ever commented on it, probably because I didn't feel like I was a big enough deal in the fandom to have anything worth saying, but you never know who's silently reading your fic and may one day, idk, decide to teach a college class based on your meta.
Anyway, this is an idea I've been playing around with regarding the fic I discussed in this post, but I wonder if you ever consider filing off the serial numbers of your lesser-trafficed fic and submitting it, if not to a magazine or an agent, then to a writer's workshop?