Note to Self (Among Other Things)
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annundrielDear Self,
Do not read other people's porn while you are trying to write your own. It will only make you have doubts. And you don't need any more of those.
Trust me,
Me
Usually it's not really a problem, but since this fic is trying to kill me, it kind of is.
It's kind of funny, though, but the amount of SPN fic I was reading tapered off greatly once I started writing it. I guess since I spend a lot of my free time writing it, I want to spend other parts of my free time reading something else? It sometimes makes me feel like a bad fan.
I do read it! If something catches my eye. Lately even my other fic reading has gone down. It's because my interests got snagged elsewhere. They're still snagged elsewhere.
And I got back into a nice book reading groove. In the last couple of days I finished Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic and Robin McKinley's Spindle's End, both of which I enjoyed.
Fun Home was yet another great example of why comics/graphic novels are such a great medium. An aunt of mine still doesn't think Sandman is legitimate literature and I know that annoys my cousin. Personally, I could geek out all day over the use of text and picture. Bechdel uses both wonderfully.
Spindle's End was recommended to me as a retelling of Sleeping Beauty in which the princess is an actual heroine and not a snoring lump in a bed. Sleeping Beauty is pretty much my least favorite fairy tale. I don't understand what it teaches young girls and generally find it pretty useless because the princess fulfills a curse and gets molested in her sleep. I find it questionable. But Spindle's End fixed that for me, explored roles and identity, destiny and expectations. It wasn't perfect, but I was very happy with it.
Do not read other people's porn while you are trying to write your own. It will only make you have doubts. And you don't need any more of those.
Trust me,
Me
Usually it's not really a problem, but since this fic is trying to kill me, it kind of is.
It's kind of funny, though, but the amount of SPN fic I was reading tapered off greatly once I started writing it. I guess since I spend a lot of my free time writing it, I want to spend other parts of my free time reading something else? It sometimes makes me feel like a bad fan.
I do read it! If something catches my eye. Lately even my other fic reading has gone down. It's because my interests got snagged elsewhere. They're still snagged elsewhere.
And I got back into a nice book reading groove. In the last couple of days I finished Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic and Robin McKinley's Spindle's End, both of which I enjoyed.
Fun Home was yet another great example of why comics/graphic novels are such a great medium. An aunt of mine still doesn't think Sandman is legitimate literature and I know that annoys my cousin. Personally, I could geek out all day over the use of text and picture. Bechdel uses both wonderfully.
Spindle's End was recommended to me as a retelling of Sleeping Beauty in which the princess is an actual heroine and not a snoring lump in a bed. Sleeping Beauty is pretty much my least favorite fairy tale. I don't understand what it teaches young girls and generally find it pretty useless because the princess fulfills a curse and gets molested in her sleep. I find it questionable. But Spindle's End fixed that for me, explored roles and identity, destiny and expectations. It wasn't perfect, but I was very happy with it.
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Date: 2010-01-07 05:07 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-01-07 07:19 am (UTC)Rosie was great in Spindle's End! Everone was, really. And I loved how magic was sown into every day life. I'm going to have to look into the author some more now.
Oh, I love Ella Enchanted, though I haven't read it in years. But I'm feeling a re-emerging interest in fairy tales and fairy tale retellings lately, so maybe it's time to pull that out again...