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avidrosette: I was wondering how you find yourself balancing fandom and professional life, and fandom and family life. Do you like them to mingle or stay separate? How do they influence each other? Does a connection to fandom ever give you any trouble in the other areas?
I don’t know that I have a good balance! I often feel overwhelmed, and I like to retreat into fandom but of course that just increases the time pressure. I’ve definitely done a lot less writing as I’ve said yes to other things in my career, and I’m working on saying no more often. I would love to be writing more fiction, but it’s not something that’s happening on a regular basis for me, though I still have a bunch of prompts I’m working on when I get a chance/when I feel that I need to write but I’m too jumpy to do work.
In terms of mingling, I’m open to offline friends/colleagues that I’m a fan who writes, because I’m in a position where that’s not a problem for me, but I don’t generally share my fannish identity, to preserve a bit of separation. I got interested in intellectual property law because of fandom, so it does furnish a bunch of the energy in some of my professional endeavors. And more generally fandom gave me much more confidence in my own voice: if you build it, they will (occasionally) come.
avidrosette: I was wondering how you find yourself balancing fandom and professional life, and fandom and family life. Do you like them to mingle or stay separate? How do they influence each other? Does a connection to fandom ever give you any trouble in the other areas?I don’t know that I have a good balance! I often feel overwhelmed, and I like to retreat into fandom but of course that just increases the time pressure. I’ve definitely done a lot less writing as I’ve said yes to other things in my career, and I’m working on saying no more often. I would love to be writing more fiction, but it’s not something that’s happening on a regular basis for me, though I still have a bunch of prompts I’m working on when I get a chance/when I feel that I need to write but I’m too jumpy to do work.
In terms of mingling, I’m open to offline friends/colleagues that I’m a fan who writes, because I’m in a position where that’s not a problem for me, but I don’t generally share my fannish identity, to preserve a bit of separation. I got interested in intellectual property law because of fandom, so it does furnish a bunch of the energy in some of my professional endeavors. And more generally fandom gave me much more confidence in my own voice: if you build it, they will (occasionally) come.