 Fantasy: February 19, 2014 Issue [#6147] |
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This week: Fantasy Writing & Reviewing Groups Edited by: NaNoNette  
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Fantasy Writing & Reviewing Groups
In my few attempts to take part in fantasy writing & reviewing groups, I have found that there are a few small groups that are nearly exclusive to their small following. Being allowed entry requires all kind of skill that not everybody has. This is not always a bad thing. It's very frustrating to have a large group of people but only five who participate. In that case, it makes sense to just be a group of five to begin with. The problem with that is that the group becomes homogenous and closed off to new ideas of members who could be and want to be an active writer/reviewer in a fantasy group.
My challenge to owners and leaders of fantasy writing & reviewing groups: come up with ways to allow members of lower skills to have access to you. Contest, reviewing challenge, participation requirement... whatever you want. At least a couple of times a year, closed groups should run an activity designed to recruit possible new members who will be active within the group. |
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For my Fantasy Newsletter "Temporary Insanity" , I got the following replies:
Prosperous Snow celebrating  wrote: This newsletter is encouraging. Thank you for the encouragement.
Thank you for reading and sending in a little comment. That is encouraging to me. 
Quick-Quill  wrote: Isn't this what fanfiction is about? We love the characters others have written and given up on. Maybe the author decided to make a change. It doesn't mean we have to leave the world. I've yet to find a fanfiction story that was as good as the original, but there is hope.
It's all how you look at it. Seems 50 Shades, which started as fanfiction to Twilight, did okay. Same for The Mortal Instruments, which started as fanfiction to Harry Potter. While I haven't read the books in my first example, I have read all Harry Potter books and all currently existing Mortal Instrument books. I find that series to be entertaining and fun to read.
BIG BAD WOLF Feeling Thankful  wrote: Sanity is a matter of perspective- one person's definition of sanity is another person's definition of insanity, and vice versa. Like the Tremors series for instance: folks outside of Perfection think that living in the middle of nowhere, with a man-eating creature burrowing underneath the ground, is insane, while everyone who lives there questions the sanity of those outside the valley, especially when they have their own graboid situation, and call upon the Perfectionists to help them.
I think I just took a peek at Geek Heaven and decided I can't handle it. 
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