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Oct. 22nd, 2004 01:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tommygirlSo 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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randombtchchick
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thefridayfive
When you were a child...
1. What did you want to be when you grew up and why?
Depends on which age you hit me at. When I was very little, I wanted to be a dancer. Then when I was seven, I decided I wanted to be an astronaut. This love lasted even through the Challenger disaster and until eighth grade, but alas that’s when science/math got a bit more demanding and I realized that it really wasn’t something I was meant for. Then it was all about law and politics. I loved writing, always had since I discovered Harriet the Spy when I was little, and thought it would be interesting to be the person who writes the amazing speeches we hear.
2. Who was your favorite person to do things with (excluding your parents)?
Katie, Ellen, and Brian
3. Did you love school or did you hate it? Why? Did that change as you got older?
I’ve always hated school. I loved learning and reading because I’m a big nerd and always have been – but the whole school experience was awful for me. I hated Catholic School. I hated the people in my Catholic school. Then in high school, because of my best friend, I was “popular” and I didn’t know what to make of it – it was just bloody awful all around. Hence the reason I think I’m always writing about it.
4. Was your family close? What were your favorite family traditions?
There are two periods of time: before my dad died and after my dad died.
Before my dad died, my family was very close. I saw my brothers more than once a decade, even talked to them. My cousins and grandmother were a part of my life. Then after my dad died, everything sort of fell apart in a way. My mother stopped being very social with most of the families, my brothers disappeared from my life (they’re older – technically my half-brothers). I was eleven at the time and didn't really have much say in anything that occurred, so I grew up somewhat cynical and unattached to most of my family outside my mother and sister. And it’s been that way pretty much ever since.
As far as traditions…Christmas was always a big deal in my family. Everyone would come to our house. We’d watch the fire truck with Santa come down the street, go to church, and then we could open *one* gift while we watched It’s A Wonderful Life. Then in the morning, it was presents and a big breakfast.
5. Did you think that being an adult would be cool?
Yes – and in a lot of ways it is cool. I love freedom, not answering to people, doing as I want, and being independent of someone else’s rules. However, they don’t really prepare you for the concept of bills, rent, student loans.
I also miss that feeling of anything is possible that is allotted to you when you’re a child. When I was little, everyone supported my every crazy whim. When I said, “I want to be a writer” it wasn’t frowned upon and I wasn’t told to “grow up and accept reality.” If only adults were allowed to dream in big and crazy colors without being labeled insane.
THE FANNISH FIVE -fannish5
Name five people whose careers/success you find inexplicable.
1. Paris Hilton – she’s famous for being rich. It’s just bizarre to me that she’s cultivating a career out of that.
2. Carrot Top – not only his comedic hilarity lost on me, but he’s ugly to boot. Good god! If someone could explain his appeal to me, I’d be intrigued.
3. Ricky Martin – this is more about the extent of his success. I just don’t get it. He freaks me out.
4. President Bush – how is he our President? Honestly, the man’s not that bright and how do people think he’s been successful?
5. Uh…I can’t think of anyone else. I’m sure these people exist, but I can’t think of any right now.
**
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?
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?
**
Note: this one got crossposted to my regular journal
randombtchchickTHE FRIDAY FIVE -
thefridayfiveWhen you were a child...
1. What did you want to be when you grew up and why?
Depends on which age you hit me at. When I was very little, I wanted to be a dancer. Then when I was seven, I decided I wanted to be an astronaut. This love lasted even through the Challenger disaster and until eighth grade, but alas that’s when science/math got a bit more demanding and I realized that it really wasn’t something I was meant for. Then it was all about law and politics. I loved writing, always had since I discovered Harriet the Spy when I was little, and thought it would be interesting to be the person who writes the amazing speeches we hear.
2. Who was your favorite person to do things with (excluding your parents)?
Katie, Ellen, and Brian
3. Did you love school or did you hate it? Why? Did that change as you got older?
I’ve always hated school. I loved learning and reading because I’m a big nerd and always have been – but the whole school experience was awful for me. I hated Catholic School. I hated the people in my Catholic school. Then in high school, because of my best friend, I was “popular” and I didn’t know what to make of it – it was just bloody awful all around. Hence the reason I think I’m always writing about it.
4. Was your family close? What were your favorite family traditions?
There are two periods of time: before my dad died and after my dad died.
Before my dad died, my family was very close. I saw my brothers more than once a decade, even talked to them. My cousins and grandmother were a part of my life. Then after my dad died, everything sort of fell apart in a way. My mother stopped being very social with most of the families, my brothers disappeared from my life (they’re older – technically my half-brothers). I was eleven at the time and didn't really have much say in anything that occurred, so I grew up somewhat cynical and unattached to most of my family outside my mother and sister. And it’s been that way pretty much ever since.
As far as traditions…Christmas was always a big deal in my family. Everyone would come to our house. We’d watch the fire truck with Santa come down the street, go to church, and then we could open *one* gift while we watched It’s A Wonderful Life. Then in the morning, it was presents and a big breakfast.
5. Did you think that being an adult would be cool?
Yes – and in a lot of ways it is cool. I love freedom, not answering to people, doing as I want, and being independent of someone else’s rules. However, they don’t really prepare you for the concept of bills, rent, student loans.
I also miss that feeling of anything is possible that is allotted to you when you’re a child. When I was little, everyone supported my every crazy whim. When I said, “I want to be a writer” it wasn’t frowned upon and I wasn’t told to “grow up and accept reality.” If only adults were allowed to dream in big and crazy colors without being labeled insane.
THE FANNISH FIVE -
fannish5Name five people whose careers/success you find inexplicable.
1. Paris Hilton – she’s famous for being rich. It’s just bizarre to me that she’s cultivating a career out of that.
2. Carrot Top – not only his comedic hilarity lost on me, but he’s ugly to boot. Good god! If someone could explain his appeal to me, I’d be intrigued.
3. Ricky Martin – this is more about the extent of his success. I just don’t get it. He freaks me out.
4. President Bush – how is he our President? Honestly, the man’s not that bright and how do people think he’s been successful?
5. Uh…I can’t think of anyone else. I’m sure these people exist, but I can’t think of any right now.
**
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?
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Date: 2004-10-22 10:51 am (UTC)My family does almost exactly the same Christmas tradition minus the fire truck Santa and watching It's A Wonderful Life.
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Date: 2004-10-23 04:23 pm (UTC)If there's something you don't like about it, border, text, whatever, I saved the .pdf file so I can fix whatever you like. :)
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Date: 2004-10-23 06:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-23 10:15 pm (UTC)Anytime you want anything, don't be afraid to ask. The Photoshop gets lonely otherwise. ;)
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Date: 2004-10-24 12:45 am (UTC)You've have the added bonus of seeing him act. Or should I say try and act.
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Date: 2004-10-25 08:38 am (UTC)And I've actually met Ricky Martin before (back before he was famous in America) at a broadway show.
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Date: 2004-10-25 04:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-24 11:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-25 08:28 am (UTC)I had this happen once before and the girl ended up posting on fanfiction.net (back when they had an Nsync section). She didn't even change anything and then had the gall to get upset when people who read my story called her on her plagerism.
It's just really weird.
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Date: 2004-10-25 06:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-26 07:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-26 06:04 pm (UTC)