Quote:Maaaan, I know what you mean.
oh, right. Gryphon-envy.
Actually, I started because I thought I had a good idea for mutating a series I liked. I stopped because I thought I couldn't do characterization good enough to stand an IG squad's chance in the Warp.
Then I read UF, and learned what good mutation looks like (acquiring my own quantity of envy). I started again, trying to accomplish said mutation with a less character-centric approach.
Fanfiction without enough talking is just as bad as fanfic with too much/bad talking. Needless to say, I stopped.
*Then*, I read DW, and, for the first time, began to participate in fanfic discussion. Now, I write because the good (or so they seem at the time) ideas won't stop coming, and I have to channel that energy somewhere, or else suffer from misdirecting it.
Funny- I've only been able to make sizable strides on fanfic of my own since my personal case of Gryphon-envy died. I could say something meaningful here, about how constant envy of others' talents and works causes one to, by comparison, denigrate one's own, and how the only path to developing one's own talent is to acknowledge the flaws of others- the flaws that keep those writers from being the gods we set them up as.
But I won't.Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines...
My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours.
I've been writing a bit.