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Seven Days of Self-Promotion Meme – Day 1
Jun. 1st, 2014 05:27 pmMeme from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
snickfic:
“I think that many of us like talking about our and linking to our work but are embarrassed to do so without excuse, so I am making us an excuse. Behold, the Seven Days of Self-Promotion Meme, inspired by another recent meme but with more categories, all obviously customizable as you see fit. Notice that the categories are very broad, so you can talk about your art or vids or meta or whatever if you don’t write fic.
The Days:
1. Something old
2. Something new
3. Something you made for someone else
4. Something you made just for yourself
5. Something for a major fandom/pairing/character
6. Something for a minor fandom/pairing/character
7. Something you’re just really proud of
And then other people can read your discussion and follow your links to your fanworks (and maybe comment on them?) and you can read their discussion and follow their links and comment on them, and it will all be lovely.”
So, this is Day One. That means something old. For me, I have to decide how far back to go. You have to keep in mind that I started writing fanfic when I was … I’m not actually sure how old. I wrote Star Trek fanfic in my diary in purple crayon, so chances are, I was under 10. I started quasi-seriously writing fanfic when I was around 14, and that stuff will never see the light of day ever. I started finishing stories when I was eighteen.
So I guess I’m going to have to pick “ God Save the Queen ”. It’s undergone changes since I wrote it; between me finishing “God Save the Queen” and Aadler working with my finished portion of “Queen’s Gambit” a year or so later, he realized that he needed to rework “God Save the Queen” in order to make the stories fit together better. So while “God Save the Queen” is absolutely better than it would have been without that, it’s also not the original product — which is nowhere near being a bad thing, just something to keep in mind.
snickfic:“I think that many of us like talking about our and linking to our work but are embarrassed to do so without excuse, so I am making us an excuse. Behold, the Seven Days of Self-Promotion Meme, inspired by another recent meme but with more categories, all obviously customizable as you see fit. Notice that the categories are very broad, so you can talk about your art or vids or meta or whatever if you don’t write fic.
The Days:
1. Something old
2. Something new
3. Something you made for someone else
4. Something you made just for yourself
5. Something for a major fandom/pairing/character
6. Something for a minor fandom/pairing/character
7. Something you’re just really proud of
And then other people can read your discussion and follow your links to your fanworks (and maybe comment on them?) and you can read their discussion and follow their links and comment on them, and it will all be lovely.”
So, this is Day One. That means something old. For me, I have to decide how far back to go. You have to keep in mind that I started writing fanfic when I was … I’m not actually sure how old. I wrote Star Trek fanfic in my diary in purple crayon, so chances are, I was under 10. I started quasi-seriously writing fanfic when I was around 14, and that stuff will never see the light of day ever. I started finishing stories when I was eighteen.
So I guess I’m going to have to pick “ God Save the Queen ”. It’s undergone changes since I wrote it; between me finishing “God Save the Queen” and Aadler working with my finished portion of “Queen’s Gambit” a year or so later, he realized that he needed to rework “God Save the Queen” in order to make the stories fit together better. So while “God Save the Queen” is absolutely better than it would have been without that, it’s also not the original product — which is nowhere near being a bad thing, just something to keep in mind.
