Lol, I can't let them go as drabbles. Flashes of fic come to me complete with a whole lot of headcanon history that needs to come out to truly make the moment great. Me = sadly not capable of letting something go if I could potentially make it better.
Getting involved in fandom actually works the other way for me--the more I know the other fans the more I realise they're not big scary anonymous judgey faces, they're just people like me who like reading stories and like my work and like me regardless of whether they liked my latest work. The more I know someone, the less hard I have to try to be perfect to impress, like I do with strangers, because people who know me will know that my missteps are aberrations rather than being all there is to me. When I'm with just with Hubby, I can sing a song with made up silly lyrics at speed, even if the lyrics aren't grammatical. When I'm writing something for a new fandom, I'd obsess for months on end over the tiniest details in the same song. I'm working on it. :) But definitely snap on the getting the most likes or the quickest updates... gargh, in some ways being able to access story statistics is great, in other ways, it's just more fuel for the anxiety.
I think one of the reasons I live in big fandoms is that I tend to not have plot bunnies emerge until I have read LOTS of fic; enough to make me go... hang on, I've read almost this exact story forty different ways, and *still* no one has done it the *obvious* way?! Come on guys, do it *this* way!!!
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Getting involved in fandom actually works the other way for me--the more I know the other fans the more I realise they're not big scary anonymous judgey faces, they're just people like me who like reading stories and like my work and like me regardless of whether they liked my latest work. The more I know someone, the less hard I have to try to be perfect to impress, like I do with strangers, because people who know me will know that my missteps are aberrations rather than being all there is to me. When I'm with just with Hubby, I can sing a song with made up silly lyrics at speed, even if the lyrics aren't grammatical. When I'm writing something for a new fandom, I'd obsess for months on end over the tiniest details in the same song. I'm working on it. :) But definitely snap on the getting the most likes or the quickest updates... gargh, in some ways being able to access story statistics is great, in other ways, it's just more fuel for the anxiety.
I think one of the reasons I live in big fandoms is that I tend to not have plot bunnies emerge until I have read LOTS of fic; enough to make me go... hang on, I've read almost this exact story forty different ways, and *still* no one has done it the *obvious* way?! Come on guys, do it *this* way!!!