Phew. Good question, that one. I can honestly say that I'm not a good writer. I know how to string words together, but then, like you said: everyone with a good education and some language proficiency knows how to do that. I remember that when I got sucked into the footballslash fandom, I had beta-ed some stories in the HP fandom so far, and felt comfortable doing so, and suggesting better wording or asking for more details here and there, things like that. I still like beta-ing. *smiles*
But then I got cajoled into writing something, and this something evolved into more, and it was like you said, this pride of having achieved something that people want to read. Notice that I said 'want', I did know what people liked to read, and it's no wonder that the Metzelly are rather popular and the Schweinski, too - they have way more than enough canon proof, they're cute together - what more do you need? So I think writing them wasn't as hard as it would have been for me had I written about an unknown pairing that no one had heard about so far.
So that probably makes me just a provider of stuff that people want, not really a writer who writes what s/he wants. Of course, these are also things that I want to read - I never write entirely for others - but I think I was lucky - unintentionally or not - that my muses fancied the popular pairings. I think if I were writing about, say, Kringe/Frei or someone else, not a lot of people would read these. (Ha! I would be lucky if even one person would read that. *g*) Or if I was to write in another fandom where there's only a small set of characters (SPN for example) where almost every possibility of throwing the boys together has been exhausted already, and gotten more and more perfect with every new try - I couldn't contribute anything at all to that.
So, basically, what I want to say: I know that I'm not a good writer by my standards (which are probably rather high, err...) and I write what people want, and this put together makes me an okay-ish writer in a small fandom with a vast array of characters. And, of course, I love comments - who doesn't, really? *wry grin*
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Date: 2008-02-21 02:18 pm (UTC)But then I got cajoled into writing something, and this something evolved into more, and it was like you said, this pride of having achieved something that people want to read. Notice that I said 'want', I did know what people liked to read, and it's no wonder that the Metzelly are rather popular and the Schweinski, too - they have way more than enough canon proof, they're cute together - what more do you need? So I think writing them wasn't as hard as it would have been for me had I written about an unknown pairing that no one had heard about so far.
So that probably makes me just a provider of stuff that people want, not really a writer who writes what s/he wants. Of course, these are also things that I want to read - I never write entirely for others - but I think I was lucky - unintentionally or not - that my muses fancied the popular pairings. I think if I were writing about, say, Kringe/Frei or someone else, not a lot of people would read these. (Ha! I would be lucky if even one person would read that. *g*) Or if I was to write in another fandom where there's only a small set of characters (SPN for example) where almost every possibility of throwing the boys together has been exhausted already, and gotten more and more perfect with every new try - I couldn't contribute anything at all to that.
So, basically, what I want to say: I know that I'm not a good writer by my standards (which are probably rather high, err...) and I write what people want, and this put together makes me an okay-ish writer in a small fandom with a vast array of characters. And, of course, I love comments - who doesn't, really? *wry grin*