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If there’s one piece of advice I can give to fic writers who feel discouraged by the “content creation” culture and lack of community engagement in modern fandom, it’s to try writing for an audience of one.
And I don’t mean write for yourself!
Find one weirdo friend that enjoys sharing ideas with you, and write fanfiction for them. Get to know their taste, and tailor your writing to it. One person who will message you while reading your stuff and want to discuss it deeply and dig into and challenge your ideas – they will give you more creative satisfaction than a hundred vague, vacant comments of praise.
Maybe some other folks will end up reading and enjoying your work! If they do, they will probably have more in-depth things to say, too, because you’ll be writing deeply on a specific set of concepts, not creating broadly palatable, derivative, marketable drivel meant to appeal to a large audience.
And if no one else reads it, you’ll still have that one weird friend.
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