7 days of self-promo - day 7

[kassidy62]

I had to think a bit about this final day - something I'm really proud of? I am proud of some of my work when I do it, but later on I pick it to death, or doubt if it's good, you know? So for me I'd say it's hard to maintain that sort of positivity over the long haul. There's a couple of stories that I like quite a bit, a couple of vids I'm fond of, but out and out proud? I just don't know. But then I remembered my second (and last) zine! A massive Starsky and Hutch anthology entitled Blood and Destiny.

I stayed up way too late for months in a row, learning layout and how to do bleeds for print, and editing (I WISH I hadn't been quite so anti-comma at the time, but oh, well) - the point is, I ended up with a 550 page (293,000 word count) Starsky & Hutch anthology: a perfect bound, paperback book.

I learned a lot, worked with a lot of talented people, including Sonja T, my lovely friend who does most of the artwork for my original fiction nowadays. She put in an incredible number of art pieces into the zine, over twenty (and she did almost as many for the first zine I did). I had some brilliant writers participate in the anthology with seventeen new stories, trivia and reprints. It was truly a learning experience, and I'm proud of the book and of the work and skill of the participants involved.

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Blood and Destiny cover by Sonja -




 And that's a wrap! I did it - got all 7 days in:)

Comments

[tipitiwitchet.livejournal.com]

You were definitely a comma hater : )

It's a thing to be proud of for sure, babes. It's a glorious piece of work and a true labor of love.

[cynatnite.livejournal.com]

I'm really proud to have been a part of that zine. If you ever take the plunge for a Part Deux I'd love to contribute, but I know you put so much of yourself into this thing. I can understand not doing it again.

I love this zine.

[hardboiledbaby]

You did it! And closing it out with a bang—what a magnificent fanwork.

[greenlady2.livejournal.com]

"...There's a couple of stories that I like quite a bit, a couple of vids I'm fond of, but out and out proud?"

But why shouldn't you be proud? What's wrong with being proud of something you've done?

The thing is, society as a whole, and especially fandom, tries to take that right of feeling proud away from us. I got sick of it, all the pressure to have my stories 'ripped to shreds' in order to be a 'good writer', a concept I consider to be total crap. That's why I quit writing Starsky and Hutch stories, and now have given up writing fan fiction entirely. But I'm proud of every single story I wrote, and I'll never bow to the pressure to think they weren't any good.