[ SECRET POST #3533 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3533 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I wonder how much of the associated threads of thought would disappear if it were widely acceptable to pay for fic commissions.

[(Anonymous)]

Not necessarily that many. I have twice paid for fic commissions. One turned out really well - although I spotted the author complaining to someone else that she didn't like the assignment, which wasn't fun :-( -and the other failed spectacularly.

I accept that the fannish muse does not always respond to cash, but in my experience (and this includes plot bunny exchanges, kinkmemes, the whole nine yards), if you like something rare, chances are good that you're the only person out there interested in it, especially if you're not in a megafandom.

[(Anonymous)]

Probably a lot! I mean current professional writers don't get to go "Uuh, well, I thought I was writing a romance novel but it turns out I wrote an essay on preserving beans instead so... " Technical writers don't get to sigh about their muse. People writing product descriptions don't get to wring their hands that they're just not feeling describing mixers today.

Yeah, a lot of people would find out that they're not naturally good at creative writing on command. A lot of artists have to find that out! I have friends who are very good artists who never take commissions because they just don't work well within someone else's framework, but that's all that the professional industry is!

People forget that for every 'House' type writer who can spend 99% of their time screwing around as long as the 1% is brilliant, there's hundreds of thousands more playing the role of 'everyone else in the hospital' churning out words as their regular boring job. And being steady and reliable is its own ability. (I've frequently heard that that's one of the reasons some of the so-so comic artists get steady work even though there's more 'talented' people out there. They excel at taking a job and doing it satisfactory, on time! And that's worth far more to the comic companies than the artistic geniuses sitting around waiting for the stars to properly align so they can draw.)