Here via a late-night friendsfriends surf, and I hope you don't mind me commenting, but this is an issue that I am facing right now.
I am in the process of taking down all of my fanfic, wherever it has been posted, because I'm now working on a novel and want none of my old (admittedly pr0n-ish) work online. I'm fine with people having it saved on their hard drives, to read when they like, but when I take my fanfic offline I want it to stay offline. Therefore I'm afraid I have issues with your following statement:
In addition, I have little patience with people who deny their previous work because they're now interested in something new.
It is often not just a case of being 'interested in something new'. For a fanfic author who has turned professional, their future career could be at stake. Even in the case of someone who is not a professional author, there could be many other reasons they wanted their fanfic offline. It might be that it could jeopardise any number of things: their job, their marriage, or their status in church.
There are many reasons why a fanfic writer might take their work offline, and denying others is probably the least of their concerns.
I'm a crafty websearcher, and therefore I found all the stuff that the authors tried to erase from existence.
They will have had their reasons for wanting that fic gone. I would hope that anyone on my friends list would respect my reasons for wanting my own fanfic gone, regardless of whether the Wayback Machine had captured it or not. I reiterate that I don't mind if they want to save a copy to read at their leisure, but re-posting it anywhere online could very well end up shattering any future career I have as a published author.
I am proud of my fanfic, and I'm glad to have had the chance to write in such great fandoms. But I want to concentrate on the future now, and on my long-held dream of seeing my name on the shelves in Waterstones and Ottakars. I don't want to spend that time worrying whether some old BDSM fic that I once wrote is going to pop up and bite me on the arse...
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Date: 2007-02-03 10:18 pm (UTC)I am in the process of taking down all of my fanfic, wherever it has been posted, because I'm now working on a novel and want none of my old (admittedly pr0n-ish) work online. I'm fine with people having it saved on their hard drives, to read when they like, but when I take my fanfic offline I want it to stay offline. Therefore I'm afraid I have issues with your following statement:
In addition, I have little patience with people who deny their previous work because they're now interested in something new.
It is often not just a case of being 'interested in something new'. For a fanfic author who has turned professional, their future career could be at stake. Even in the case of someone who is not a professional author, there could be many other reasons they wanted their fanfic offline. It might be that it could jeopardise any number of things: their job, their marriage, or their status in church.
There are many reasons why a fanfic writer might take their work offline, and denying others is probably the least of their concerns.
I'm a crafty websearcher, and therefore I found all the stuff that the authors tried to erase from existence.
They will have had their reasons for wanting that fic gone. I would hope that anyone on my friends list would respect my reasons for wanting my own fanfic gone, regardless of whether the Wayback Machine had captured it or not. I reiterate that I don't mind if they want to save a copy to read at their leisure, but re-posting it anywhere online could very well end up shattering any future career I have as a published author.
I am proud of my fanfic, and I'm glad to have had the chance to write in such great fandoms. But I want to concentrate on the future now, and on my long-held dream of seeing my name on the shelves in Waterstones and Ottakars. I don't want to spend that time worrying whether some old BDSM fic that I once wrote is going to pop up and bite me on the arse...