The Zander Nyrond Fanfic Poll

[avevale_intelligencer]

A many years ago, when I was young and dribbling, as some of you may know, I practiced fanfic scribbling...

I finished two and three-quarters Blake's Seven stories. Two and a half of them were published, two in the second and fourth issues of a zine called Frak, and the half as a self-contained thing called Links. Today I resurrected both halves of Links from the depths of the LocoScript files in which it was hidden, and while I have developed somewhat as a writer since then (gods, I should *hope* so) it doesn't actually read that badly. There is no slash, and the story does not revolve around who gets off with whom (though there is some of that going on in the background): what I was trying to do was end the series the way I wanted it to end, and I think I succeeded without being too contrived about it.

It seems unlikely that the second half would be publishable now (is anyone still writing B7 stuff?) but it kind of irks me that I never got it all out there.

So...

[Poll #951781]

What do you think?

Comments

squee! New B7! squee...*

[inamac.livejournal.com]

There's still a fair amount of B7 fanfic out there - watervole is always on the lookout for B7 fic (there's a link to the fanfic site from her lj)

And some of us oldtimers much prefer fanfic with Plots and Characterisation and Real SF Stuff than all this Shipping (do they have proper 'Bills of Lading' I wonder?) and Hetting, and angsty/slashing.

I sympathise with the scanning problems - I face the task of turning a lot of mimeographed stuff into net-publishable form - not to mention WordPro.txt files on 5"floppy discs…

*Sorry - dunno what come over me there...

Re: squee! New B7! squee...*

[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

I can't promise real sf stuff, at least not by lil_shepherd's standards--I expect she would turn her nose up and sniff "miracles" at quite a lot of it.

Anyway, I've emailed Janet E (the publisher) to see what she thinks.

Re: squee! New B7! squee...*

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

I expect she would turn her nose up and sniff "miracles" at quite a lot of it.

You'll never know unless you publish it. [grin]

Re: squee! New B7! squee...*

[occams_pyramid]

Can you read the 5 1/4" disks? I have the hardware to read them and might be able to reinstall the software if I can find it.

Re: squee! New B7! squee...*

[inamac.livejournal.com]

We have a CPU with both 5.25" and 3.5" disk slots and the appropriate software (unfortunately one of the cats peed on the monitor and keyboard...) and another with a 3.5" and a CD... But I may have to call on your support if all else fails! Thanks for the offer!