You don't have to be GOOD to create in fandom. You're not getting paid. Some people may be "practicing" for professional publication, but a lot of us have absolutely no aspirations for that. We are creating because we enjoy creation for its own sake and we love something about the verse or the characters. We're having fun. As a result, the expectations I have of both myself and others are much more relaxed. It's not about meeting some standard but about contributing.
I'm having the opposite problem - I'm finding it challenging to get into a lot of pro fic these days, because great fanfic writers have set the bar of my expectations for how engaging it's going to be, in a place where pro-fic (sometimes self-published but other times not) is more and more often falling flat for me. I have a surprising number of books in my DNF pile whereas past me would have cringed in horror at the thought of not finishing a book, even if I didn't really like it.
Anyway this has nothing to do with the original post but it's 2 am and I'm awake and this is what happens.
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Date: 2019-11-18 07:19 am (UTC)I'm having the opposite problem - I'm finding it challenging to get into a lot of pro fic these days, because great fanfic writers have set the bar of my expectations for how engaging it's going to be, in a place where pro-fic (sometimes self-published but other times not) is more and more often falling flat for me. I have a surprising number of books in my DNF pile whereas past me would have cringed in horror at the thought of not finishing a book, even if I didn't really like it.
Anyway this has nothing to do with the original post but it's 2 am and I'm awake and this is what happens.