Awards! (and a bit of grumbling)
Sep. 13th, 2011 11:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jedibuttercupBeen 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![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
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*
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*
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Date: 2011-09-14 07:40 am (UTC)I've seen people rant before about others wanting to 'adopt' their stories on fanficrants, and it always floors me that there are people out there who are so presumptuous. I understand how readers long for updates to a WIP; I've got two long-running Firefly WIPs that I follow and would be thrilled to see updates for (yes, one of them is Book's Legacy ;) ), but seriously, I can't imagine the level of gall it takes even to demand an update, much less request to take over the whole story. So yeah, your bristling is totally justified here.