Fic progress

Nothing's done yet, but I'm still working on things. Here's a list.

1 - I printed off all of Any Given Tuesday in an attempt to motivate myself into finishing it. It's only two damned chapters I need to write, you'd think I'd be able to do it. Right.

2 - Inspiration struck last night for the next chapter of Letter Box. Should be done tonight. I need to rethink what I have Dawn doing.

3 - Inevitable is still chugging along. I know I'm forgetting a key point and it's making me angry. Having to re-read all 166,000 words to figure out what it is, is not an interesting prospect.

4 - I want to drabble for abvh100, but can't think of anything to do with vampires. Is it writers block or am I just crazy?

5 - I will not be writing the Firefly/Anita Blake crossover that's bopping around in my head. I will not do it. You hear that?

I don't understand (an AB post)

This is a post about the Anita Blake fandom. Just so you know ahead of time.

I made the mistake (yes, I'm considering it a mistake now) to sign on for the new Laurell K. Hamilton forums as I wanted to track the fanfic thread (There is an empty forum on the boards entitled "fanfic" and I was ever-so-curious as to what that was all about). I then started reading some of the other posts, and quickly remebered why I'm not on any AB communities on LJ or the like.

Why does one spend so much time trashing a book that one hates? Villifying a) the characters, b) the author and c) the people who read the books? I myself have grown away from series in the past, when the author goes in a direction I find annoying or 'wrong' in my mind... I move on.

So, gentle reader, I ask you these simple questions:

1 - Do you understand the vitriol among the "fans" against people who still like the books?
2 - Do you get why anyone would spend the energy slagging a book they profess to hate?
3 - Is there any place on the net where a discussion on the books are presnet in a pleasant and construtive format? I know I may have asked this before, but I seem to have forgotten.

Thanks.