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[handful_ofdust]

Fascinating, calm and reasonable breakdown of where and how numbers-filing blurs into fanfiction and then past that into outright plagiarism, here (http://icarusancalion.livejournal.com/741394.html?format=light).

Also: Ha HA, God damn. Wonderful Charlie POV, yet another A/U branching off from the ending of 3:10 to Yuma, this one dealing head-on with the dicey issue of having to choose whether or not to live on without Ben: "Promised Land", by Bliss--Ben/Charlie, Charlie/William Evans (http://paragraph.livejournal.com/35405.html).

Comments

[ebcdic.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I find that kind of meta to be very interesting. Other times, I think a lot of it is so much effort for something that's supposed to be fun.

Also: Hee!

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Hee! Indeed!;)

I really hope you're going further with that particular A/U, BTW...to quote baggyeyes, I think you're not finished. And by "think", maybe I mean "wish".

As for the meta, meanwhile--I guess I'm always trying to convince myself that I might somehow be able to turn at least some of this stuff I've been doing into a legitimately salable commodity; foolish, probably, since most of it takes off from stuff which is not in the public domain.

[ebcdic.livejournal.com]

I definitely see more in that little universe. I just have to find the time to organize my thoughts and write them down.

I try to convince myself of that as well but I've never been able to finish something that wasn't based on something else.