I agree with you actually. On a purely descriptive level, I'd resist alixtii's potentially sold fanfics and go with an amateur/professional model.
I'd also acknowledge that there are borderline cases (much of RPS AUs that can file the serial numbers off with no more than exchanging names, for examples, would be in that borderline space as would original slash), but I actually thought that the very aspect that the original post brought up, namely potential audience may be a really central effect (not necessarily defining feature, though we might be able to argue that as well?): in other words, if you write drawerfic, you have an intended audience of one. If you writ within a community, you have a very limited audience.
Maybe the difference between Woolf showing her draft to her Bloomsbury friends and Sue and Judy writing MFU fic before zines is that the former is already writing for a larger audience. She doesn't only write for those few that see the initial drafts but intends to write for a larger audience.
I'm more interested in the effects than definitional boundaries. *Because* writing within fandom (maybe that's a better term than fanfiction, b/c it requires the community :) is tied to community, it displays various characteristics (stronger in some stories, weaker in others) that I'm studying. That neither means that all fanfic displays these aspects excessively nor that pro fic doesn't. On the whole, however, more fanfic does it and fanfic does it more :)
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Date: 2007-04-13 12:07 pm (UTC)I'd also acknowledge that there are borderline cases (much of RPS AUs that can file the serial numbers off with no more than exchanging names, for examples, would be in that borderline space as would original slash), but I actually thought that the very aspect that the original post brought up, namely potential audience may be a really central effect (not necessarily defining feature, though we might be able to argue that as well?): in other words, if you write drawerfic, you have an intended audience of one. If you writ within a community, you have a very limited audience.
Maybe the difference between Woolf showing her draft to her Bloomsbury friends and Sue and Judy writing MFU fic before zines is that the former is already writing for a larger audience. She doesn't only write for those few that see the initial drafts but intends to write for a larger audience.
I'm more interested in the effects than definitional boundaries. *Because* writing within fandom (maybe that's a better term than fanfiction, b/c it requires the community :) is tied to community, it displays various characteristics (stronger in some stories, weaker in others) that I'm studying. That neither means that all fanfic displays these aspects excessively nor that pro fic doesn't. On the whole, however, more fanfic does it and fanfic does it more :)