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[deckardcanine]

An older and more successful fellow Web cartoonist just wrote and publicized a "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic" fanfic. I've given thought to doing the same, but it always seemed beneath my dignity.

Thing is, I have made FIM fanart. Why should fanfiction be different? It's worth noting that I would never draw straightforward fanart; I have to make it ridiculous somehow. But with fanfiction, I feel this obligation to stay as faithful as possible to the source material, as if to prove that I could match the canon in writing skill. Well, I probably could match the dumber FIM episodes, but I think it would do no real favor to what little cred I have. Does this make sense?

As I read the fanfic in question, I became newly aware of another seemingly irrational aspect of myself: I have little patience for fiction in text on the computer screen. I can read lengthy forum discussions, work papers, and online articles for many minutes if not hours uninterrupted, but even a good story will have me looking away before long. This is not a problem in hardcopy. I can attribute it only to an idiosyncratic psychological phenomenon.

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[nefaria.livejournal.com]

I'm in a similar boat for fan fiction: I'm at the stage where I know what good writing is, and I realize that my writing is not good yet, and I have trouble mustering up the effort to write mediocre-bad stories long enough to become a good writer. So my output has dropped to near zero.

Any chance for a link to this successful web cartoonist's fan fiction?

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

Here. (http://www.fimfiction.net/index.php?view=category&user=679)