So Deep in the Fic Closet I've Found the Door to Narnia

[jenni_snake]

So here I am at a professional two-day meeting away from home, and when my colleagues ask what I'm going to do when I get back to my hotel I want to casually throw out the truth: oh, I'm going to work on a few WiPs, try to hammer out at least an outline so I can go over it again later in the week and at least have something to edit. But I don't.

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[crescentium]

I have flirted with the door... given it those long looks and tried the handle. That is to say, nearly broached the subject so close that I think one person does know, but is politely permitting me my space to choose whether to tell her or not.

So the answer would be no, I'm most certainly not out, and I cannot in the foreseeable future see myself ever being out. Quite honestly I don't believe the world is ready for that big step of acceptance, but I'd love for it to happen some day.

[jenni_snake]

One day, one day... Though now thinking about it again, I wonder - are we as authors (even if we're 'just' fanfic authors) in general rather secretive and not like to talk about our work?

[crescentium]

Personally, I don't actually talk about my original work any more than about my fanfiction, so in that respect, it's ever so easy to mention that I write as a hobby, and that I do mention. I just claim that I write for myself only, despite the fact that some of the work WOULD be available online; so I really only just keep one part of my writing a secret. Curious creatures may keep their curiosity. ;)

I do think that authors are secretive folk, though. I rarely want to discuss the details of my upcoming work before it is written.

[jenni_snake]

Writing as a hobby - for some reason I've bad er thought of putting it that way, but that just totally sums it up! Cheers for that. :) Feeling less claustrophobic already!

[aswanargent]

Do you even need an answer from me?

[jenni_snake]

Hahahahaha.

[umlautless]

Last summer I told people I was writing a novella, when I had to meet my self imposed word counts for BBBB. And I often joke with selected friends that my screenplays for Hamlet and Streetcar Named Desire are just thinly veiled fanfic. And I've made noncommital remarks about "oh fandom!" to a friend of mine who is very active in comic fandoms (we weren't quite close enough for me to ask her for advice for my BBBB, though).

(When asked what my novella was about, I said it was a nonlinear reflection on the cyclical nature of life. Sounds so much smarter than it really was.)

[jenni_snake]

Awesome description. :):):)

[concupiscence66]

Fuck no! I would be embarrassed to have people know I write smut, but it would be much, much worse if they picked up on all the personal issues I've been working through in my writing. My fic is my diary.

[jenni_snake]

Interesting!