But we can't Selllllll fanfic

This has been brewing for a while.

Why can't we sell fanfiction?
When there are books like Scarlett and The Wind Done Gone.
When My Jim debuts to critical acclaim.
When The Open Window totally takes Wendy Darling out of character and sells for $14.95.
When The Red Tent is being read by women's book groups all over country.
When the X-Wing and Buffy and ST books go on and on and endlessly on.

What makes THEIR fanfiction so superior to ours?
The fact it's packaged as literature?
The fact it's approved by the owners?

Help me out here, because I'm confused, and getting crankier by the day.

Vids in progress

Needs some work:
Wolverton Mountain (SW)

Some footage laid down:
Wind's Four Quarters (5th Element)
The Harrison Ford Slobber Song (multi)
Tarrent Moss (SW, not working)

Storyboards:
Wave on Wave (LXG)
I would do anything for love (LotR)
Careless Whisper (SW Prequels)

Ideas:
Inanna (a Zoe focus firefly vid. "Follow Inanna's footsteps down" as she goes to rescue Mal and Wash)
Who I am (Firefly, Mal focus).
Man in the Long Black coat (Brimstone)
Mephistopholes (Brimstone: "I'm your god of second chances...")
A Fine Romance (multi, slash)
Puck's Song (HP)
Angel in her face (Ani/Ami)
Where O where has Chthulhu gone? (Multi, classic horror)
Lovers: the Triangle (SW)

That Music Meme

You know the Drill. Music from the year I graduated. Stuff I like is bolded. Stuff I hate is struck through.
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Now we know why my vids are to odd song choices...

First class

So today I took my first Database Design class. I am so in over my head.
Doesn't help I can hear one word in every ten that Dr. Brandon says. He's very soft spoken.

Here's hoping the textbook will clear some of it up.

I think I have a schedule at work: ILL and such in the morning, misc work at night. I find myself taking a 30 minute nap in the afternoons to keep going.

I got about half a page written on Emeralds for Torquere.
And I'm starting to think about my November Novel.

Also, rounded up the usual suspects fair entries. Bun may get her MidSouth Con costume in time for the MidSouth Fair.