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Snowflake Challenge #5
Jan. 11th, 2025 02:59 pmChallenge #5
Talk about what has improved in your life thanks to fandom. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
1. Fandom has improved my writing. I've learned from beta readers, I've learned from commenters, I've learned from betaing for other people, I've learned from writing comms, etc. My very first fanfic is this one. It's not bad, but I can do better now, and I have a better understanding of how to write and how to leave things out. I still remember my very first beta - I asked Berkeley Hunt, a fierce and terrible person (!) to beta for me, and she was great. Where is she now?
2. Fandom has brought me enormous amounts of fun, online and off. From hilarious conversations at conventions to LJ interactions to Camp Sparkle, there have been so many laughs. Friendships which still make me smile, even the ones that have fallen away. The joy of shared obsessions.
3. I have learned to think. So many thoughtful and worthwhile discussions. So many different points of view offered to me freely. I dare say I might have come up with some of the improvements on my own as I've had years of living in which to do it, but it would have been so easy to be hidebound and to assume that my life was the only one I needed. Fandom broadened me.
Talk about what has improved in your life thanks to fandom. Post your answer to today’s challenge in your own space and leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
1. Fandom has improved my writing. I've learned from beta readers, I've learned from commenters, I've learned from betaing for other people, I've learned from writing comms, etc. My very first fanfic is this one. It's not bad, but I can do better now, and I have a better understanding of how to write and how to leave things out. I still remember my very first beta - I asked Berkeley Hunt, a fierce and terrible person (!) to beta for me, and she was great. Where is she now?
2. Fandom has brought me enormous amounts of fun, online and off. From hilarious conversations at conventions to LJ interactions to Camp Sparkle, there have been so many laughs. Friendships which still make me smile, even the ones that have fallen away. The joy of shared obsessions.
3. I have learned to think. So many thoughtful and worthwhile discussions. So many different points of view offered to me freely. I dare say I might have come up with some of the improvements on my own as I've had years of living in which to do it, but it would have been so easy to be hidebound and to assume that my life was the only one I needed. Fandom broadened me.