that would be a negative

So last night I got another one of those weird emails from some person who would like to borrow one of my stories. I can't speak for most fandoms but is this something that happens anywhere outside the pop fandom? Because it's always in reference to one of my older Nsync stories that this question arises. I don't know.

Gah.

I don't know how you borrow stories. There is enjoying and asking to archive with credit given and then there is stealing the story and passing it off as your own. I don't get these people who think it's okay to take a story someone else wrote and pass it off as their own if they ask first.

Needless to say, my response was that I wasn't sure what she meant by "borrow" and that if meant taking my story for her own use, well, no. I don't claim brilliance. I don't claim that my stuff is the best out there. But I do claim that everything I write is 100% percent mine, stuff that I've procrastinated and slaved over all in the same breath, and it's important to me.

How is it important to them?

And I guess that's why I don't get the whole idea of plagerizing someone else's writing - because what gratification do you get out of the feedback you receive? You know that it's not yours and, despite its size, the Internet really isn't that big. You'll be found out sooner or later. Is it all about the attention? There are easier ways to get attention.

Oh well, what can I do?

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( The Friday Five )

( The fannish five for the week )

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Much writing to do this weekend. I can procrastinate no longer because there are only two weekends left until Nano gets underway and I'm going to need to focus on that if I plan to actually finish the novel in the month.

Why do I do these things to myself again?