Yeah it probably would - it feels a bit harder than with fic because it's less reciprocal? Although I suppose I could still help them in return, even though I'm not spending much time on fandom stuff anymore I still enjoy betaing and talking about ideas, so it wouldn't have to be a completely one way street.
There is a fandom sort of linked to the genre I'm writing in, actually I dunno why I'm hedging around it, the book is a hockey based romance, there is a hockey fandom - I don't entirely know how I feel about the RPF aspect of it, but there's more to the fandom than just that, so maybe I need to explore that and maybe see if just being around hockey enthusiasts (a lot of whom write, either novels with OC or fic around the actual athletes) can create that community feeling. It's definitely what I'm missing, so maybe that and finding a friend willing to listen to me talk about my writing might be enough to get me started.
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Yeah it probably would - it feels a bit harder than with fic because it's less reciprocal? Although I suppose I could still help them in return, even though I'm not spending much time on fandom stuff anymore I still enjoy betaing and talking about ideas, so it wouldn't have to be a completely one way street.
There is a fandom sort of linked to the genre I'm writing in, actually I dunno why I'm hedging around it, the book is a hockey based romance, there is a hockey fandom - I don't entirely know how I feel about the RPF aspect of it, but there's more to the fandom than just that, so maybe I need to explore that and maybe see if just being around hockey enthusiasts (a lot of whom write, either novels with OC or fic around the actual athletes) can create that community feeling. It's definitely what I'm missing, so maybe that and finding a friend willing to listen to me talk about my writing might be enough to get me started.