You know...

[leethet]

...something just occurred to me in light of the flood of vignettes that seem to be out there ... is it going to become the preferred style of online fic-writing, and are the longer stories I must assume someone's writing somewhere all reserved for zines?
That would be a bummer. I like long stuff, and I liked it being free. :)

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Short and Sweet & Free?

[tgabrielle.livejournal.com]

I used to think people wrote vignettes to get free zines but apparently there is more to the motivation than trib copies. Does anyone prefer short pieces? I don't think it's a trend really but there seems a lot of it lately and the lists and LJ perhaps foster the quick fix, so to speak. Where is the longer stuff? The only new MFU slash zine I'm aware of is RS (7 or 8?), so it's not going to print. Jan, Di, Clare and (sorta) I are plugging (plug, plug) away at the Incognito online zine. Both Di and my stories are long.

And I assume many of us (Lee, Nat etc) have longer stories in the works. They'll all probably come out at the same time and create a counter-trend.

Re: Short and Sweet & Free?

[leethet.livejournal.com]

And I assume many of us (Lee, Nat etc) have longer stories in the works. They'll all probably come out at the same time and create a counter-trend.


That may be it -- that this is a ... not a bump in the road, but a temporary plenitude of short stuff, to be countered by some long stories getting posted. That would be great.
And when RS8 comes out, I can post my story from RS7. :)