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

[bardling.livejournal.com]

I don't know anything about Blake's 7, I'd probably try "Finish tweaking part two, get the publisher's permission, scan in the two preceding stories and put the whole jolly lot up?", but if there are problems with getting the permission, I'd reconsider, or if you feel like writing something else, I'd do that (doesn't have to be instead, could be as well?)...

Yes, not very helpful, I know... *wry grin*

[aunty_marion]

Now this is what he's wibbling, would people read his scribbling? They were what he was dribbling, a-many years ago...

[willibald.livejournal.com]

Does copyright to Links reside with the publisher or with you as the author? It would be polite to inform the publisher even if the second is the case, but current outlooks on 'intellectual property' would probably side with you even if you didn't.

As for readership, there is at least one B7 story a month being added to the archive of fanfiction.net (although there still aren't as many stories as there are for Tellytubbies) and plenty of other sites out there that are hosting B7 fics.

Don't let lack of shipping put you off. Just because over 90% of fics seem to be relationship orientated doesn't make them more readable than the less than 50% of them that are plot orientated. Besides slash writers/readers are showing a frustrated longing for something that they can never experience in real life while attempting the end B7 in a satisfactory way... heck, you're practically writing slash already!

Since, as I recall, ...

[soren-nyrond.livejournal.com]

this was what brought Nyronds to a deal of the public (in part 1) and included the "Duck ! Swallow !" repartee in part 2 (as well as resurrecting Zen), I would vote (and have voted) for "Bring it back ! Bring it all back !!" (as did the audience when Lady Constance did the striptease).

BTW, was part 3 (Links itself) the one where you were doing Extensive Research on the Life and Habits of the Tribal Squirrel ?

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...

[armb.livejournal.com]

I'd like to read them, but don't have preferences on what you should do (since even if you go for "Forget the whole thing and go and write something else", the something else is also likely to be worth reading).

[alyramoondancer.livejournal.com]

I voted. :D

If it has Nyronds, then yes! Definitely bring it all back!