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When stories disappear...
2 October 2010 02:17 amIn recent weeks and months, I've seen stories by several SGA writers get friendslocked or taken offline entirely. In a very few cases, I've had comment- or PM-conversations with those writers. Usually me telling them -- very belatedly -- about my enjoyment of the stories and asking if sharing the stories would still be okay.
Fic writers have many reasons for taking stories down -- from offline and online life inadvertently crossing streams to RL concerns to disagreements to no longer feeling comfortable with a topic they wrote about or with a fandom-related online presence, or anything under the sun.
Whatever the writer's reason, they wrote the words and have the right to do with them what they want or need to. ( Read more... )
( Gasp! a policy )
* Or got a free copy of it because the author Creative Commonsed it or handed out free copies in another fashion because they want people to share their work.
( ETA another footnote )
Originally posted at http://skaredykat.livejournal.com/9521.html
Fic writers have many reasons for taking stories down -- from offline and online life inadvertently crossing streams to RL concerns to disagreements to no longer feeling comfortable with a topic they wrote about or with a fandom-related online presence, or anything under the sun.
Whatever the writer's reason, they wrote the words and have the right to do with them what they want or need to. ( Read more... )
( Gasp! a policy )
* Or got a free copy of it because the author Creative Commonsed it or handed out free copies in another fashion because they want people to share their work.
( ETA another footnote )
Originally posted at http://skaredykat.livejournal.com/9521.html