tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050276593848875015.post7539901969291847547..comments2023-06-14T09:01:36.152-07:00Comments on The Many Worlds of C. L. Olson: "I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror..."*Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03966481358894211083noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050276593848875015.post-83477792221533430292013-05-29T12:07:15.965-07:002013-05-29T12:07:15.965-07:00I've been thinking about the wedding dress and...I've been thinking about the wedding dress and how to do this ever since she told me (many many many moons ago) that she wanted to do this. I could take a seam ripper to the skirts to separate it from the bodice - but using a seam ripper on lace terrifies me. I'm afraid I'm going to rip holes in it! So, I've decided to sew the panels of the blue fabric together, and then hand sew it to the under skirt - which is going to be a bit of a pain in the butt around the zipper, but over all it should work out just fine. <br /><br />I was never a big Star Trek fan as a kid - I was always more into Star Wars - but I'll have to take a look at those. <br /><br />Ditto regarding my fanfiction ending up on Kindle Worlds. I highly doubt that the estate of my favorite author, Anne McCaffrey, will sign over the rights to allow it. And, like I mentioned in the blog, why would anyone pay for it when they can find it online for free?<br /><br />It'll be interesting to see how this all works out when Kindle Worlds launches...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03966481358894211083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050276593848875015.post-26717122672374947752013-05-25T13:44:16.230-07:002013-05-25T13:44:16.230-07:00Christina,
Kymele didn't say it, but I will t...Christina,<br /><br />Kymele didn't say it, but I will tellour "dirty little non-secret". <br /><br />She and I have been friends since almost forever, and we both cut our writing teeth on particularly bad Star Trek fan fiction (I can blame it all on her, because she force fed me Trek until Spock hypnotized me and I fell passionately in lust....)....umm, oh, what was I saying....?<br /><br />We kept several notebooks of what I will very loosely call "storylines". It was a way to deal with high school ennui and our changing selves.<br /><br />From that writing, my original worlds and peoples were born.<br /><br />Without Star Trek, without Spock, they wouldn't exist.<br /><br />For a long time, I felt shame about this, because I accepted the prevailing "sordid" label.<br /><br />That stopped me from writing the original elements, because they were inextricably connected to one another.<br /><br />A year or so ago, I claimed it all. Star trek and Spock are abiding passions, for me. They have made me the woman I am, in so many ways. I can no more separate Trek from me than from my stories...<br /><br />So I decided not to try. Now, I am writing a double series - a sweeping saga of Spock, and the woman who will become, after much turbulence, his wife.<br /><br />Either series will stand on its own. For those who choose to read both, there will be added richness, other elements to discover, new patterns in the weaving of fictional realities...<br /><br />But I don't think my fan fiction will ever appear in Kindle Worlds, or anywhere else, for pay. I don't bet on horses at the racetrack, and I don't write Spock's story for pay, either. I feel free to play there, and to share my playing free of charge....but Star Trek has given me so much. I can't seek profit there, only offer the gift of my vision of it to those who might appreciate it.<br /><br />Making that choice has opened me up as a writer. My original stories will be offered for sale, without hiding that there is a fan fiction side of things out there for those who might choose to read it. <br /><br />I'm not hiding, and I'm not ashamed. And I do my absolute best to do right by my characters, Trek or not.<br /><br />And I am intrigued by your sewing....I have had a machine for a few years, and have yet to dare try to learn howto thread it! =)<br /><br />Oh, and some of those early Timescape novels (especially, for me, the A.C.Crispin ones), were phenomenal, and much better than some of the later, "professional" ones. I think it's a matter of whether the book was written for passion, or for profit, first...those early efforts came from writers who burned with their "what-if's", and had to set them down....it makes for GOOD reading! =)Shan Jeniah Burtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01757607146774769663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2050276593848875015.post-42489017157171417452013-05-22T15:56:07.032-07:002013-05-22T15:56:07.032-07:00Your friend sounds like she has a great vision for...Your friend sounds like she has a great vision for her wedding dress, but that means a lot of work for you...<br /><br />The Kindle Worlds thing... well, truthfully there have always been "authorized" fanfiction stories published for profit. Remember the Timescape Star Trek novels? They started out with some fanfiction writers, but eventually they shifted to professionals to keep up the standards and reduce the slush.<br /><br />I think they are hoping to do a similar thing with the Kindle Worlds series.<br /><br />And yeah... I love writing my fanfiction, but it'll never make it on Kindle Worlds. Eden "Kymele" Mabeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01550337993392791643noreply@blogger.com