[ SECRET POST #2651 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2651 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 051 secrets from Secret Submission Post #379.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 1 2 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[galerian-ash.livejournal.com]

Wow, that doesn't make any sense whatsoever.

[(Anonymous)]

No one buys fanfic, just suck it up!

[galerian-ash.livejournal.com]

I would never in a million years dream of trying to earn money on my fics, that is not the point! All I said was that that reasoning didn't make a lick of sense.

[(Anonymous)]

How doesn't it? A piece of fanart is what it is. It's a picture. You look at it and can see that you like it. You like all of it. You generally can't do that with prose. IMHO, that a big part of why fanfic doesn't sell (and yes, I've known people to print out their fic or to do "flash fic" for money at cons. It doesn't usually do so well). You see a piece of art at a con and you want to be able to see it whenever you want, nice and framed, so you buy it. Knowing that a fic is worth it takes a little more time. Books can sell at cons, but people generally trust a book to have had some quality control.

A fic is also a story. Which is generally what the thing it's based on is too--a book/movie/game/show/comic. Story is at its essence. Story is what it sells. A piece of fanart may be one of those "illustrations that tells a story" but it's never really more than a beat in time, so, not really a whole story. Usually it's not even that--most fanart that sells well is based on pinups. It's not the same thing. But you can't sell fancomics (in America, of American-owned properties)--that's "story."

Zines, though...zines occupy a nice grey area. I suppose if more fic writers wanted to get in touch with the Olden Days, and start putting together zines, they could sell those.

[(Anonymous)]

The 2010 help_haiti.livejournal.com auction raised ~$100K and a good chunk of that was commissioned fanfic based on a prompt. For me, the prompt was merely a pairing in a fandom. I'm sure others can say the same.

So no one can tell me people aren't willing to pay for fanfic. It's all about whether it's "right" or not to pay for it, and apparently it's okay if the money isn't going to the author.

(this is not a diss on help_haiti, which I thought was the coolest thing to happen in fandom ever, and why I donated my skills and money to it. I'm just pointing out an implication.)

[elephantinegrace]

I would if I could. And I don't spend a penny on fanart, just suck it up!