Pay me to write fanfiction for a year
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It all started when Cousinjean, a semi-BNF fanfic author for the Buffy fandom, decided that she was too busy to finish all of her WIP fanfics, so she made an appeal to her flist to send her donations, so she could take a year off work to write fanfic.
The original post has been deleted, but luckily wickeprincess3 saved the text (or, alternately, you can view the screencap here):
| “ | I've gotten a lot of e-mails over the past year asking if and when I'm going to finish both Dancing Lessons and my sequel to The Butterfly Effect. Believe me when I say that nobody is more depressed about the unfinished state of my fan fiction than I am. But the cold, hard reality is that I have bills and student loans to pay, an actual paying writing career to try my damnedest to launch, and an eventual marriage to save and plan for. The simple fact is that there is no more room in my life for fan fiction. I've tried to make room. I have. But it's just not happening.
I realize that a lot of people will probably judge me pretty harshly for the following, but I'm just desperate enough not to care. I'm offering to sing for my supper, so to speak, and I don't see the shame in that. So here's my proposal: if every reader who has read and enjoyed my fan fiction over the years will donate the amount that they would expect to pay for a hardback novel (and I've written the equivalent of several novels in the course of my fanfic career), then I will be able to take a year off to write full time. This means that not only would I be able to finish the original novels that are languishing on my hard drive; I would also be able to finish my fan fiction. Basically, what I'm asking for is monetary support from my reader base in helping me get my career as a professional storyteller off the ground. In return, if at least half of my goal is met, I promise to continue the work that has gained me a following in the first place. I'm asking you to buy me time to write. If you're willing to do this, in addition to finished WIPs you will also have my eternal gratitude and a mention in the acknowledgements of my first published novel. If you're not, that's understandable, and all I ask is that you never again ask me how my WIPs are coming. I'm setting a deadline of Halloween 2005 in order to reach my goal. If I do, then I'll give notice at my job and commence writing full time. If I don't, well, even if you can buy me a few months between jobs, that will be a huge help. Click here if you wish to make a donation through Paypal; or contact me at jeanjeanie AT gmail.com in order to make other arrangements. You can check back here regularly to see the progress of this fundraising drive. Thank you so much for your continued support. Even if all you can afford is the emotional kind. | ” |
Unsurprisingly, Cousinjean gets lambasted by many people in the fandom, and ends up deleting her journal.
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