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Steve’s Update 11/2/2014

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Hello everyone, and how’s it going?

Well you’re probably doing NaNoWriMo – and for the first year I had a NaNoWriMo surge over at Seventh Sanctum.  I think either my user demographic changed or I got a lot of newcomers as most NaNoWriMers were well aware of it and used it.

Muse Hack is going to go through some changes in the next two months.  Based on feedback from people who’ve worked with it and me the goal is to work on making me a central, promotional voice – an Ed Sullivan finding new Beatles as it were.  I feel good on that – and it’ll let me cut loose and get a bit crazy.

Also the Geek Catalog is shaping up – and some surprises are in store . . .

– Steven Savage

Steven Savage is a Geek 2.0 writer, speaker, blogger, and job coach.  He blogs on careers at http://www.musehack.com/, publishes books on career and culture at http://www.informotron.com/, and does a site of creative tools at http://www.seventhsanctum.com/. He can be reached at https://www.stevensavage.com/.

Fan I Am #3: Identifying As A Fan

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Whirlpool

Previously I identified the following forms of fans:

  • Recreational – The fandom is fun.
  • General Interest – There is definite interest in the subject, and time is put in.but not much is done with it.
  • Social – One identifies with, socializes, and bonds with other fans.
  • Active – One is actively doing things in the fandom.
  • Applied – One’s fandom interest is involved in career and/or large parts of one’s life.

So now we’re back to one of the questions that started this all: does it make sense to identify as a fan.

I meet so many fans and people for whom fandom is a strong part of their identity. I also see pathology in fandom identity, in flamewars and meltdowns and worse. Yet I also see people for whom it delivers passion and happiness.

So it makes sense to ask such a question.

But First . . .

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Fan I Am #2: Forms Of Fans

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People And Profile

So here’s where we start, asking about how fandom identity works and the benefits, problems, and questions of the fan identity. To do that we’ll need to ask what kinds of fans we are.

It may seem strange, one may say, to analyze why people identify as yaoi fans or love the Cleveland Browns inexplicably. However man people do identify with fandoms and their loves even in things that may seem irrelevant to others.

However, identity is not irrelevant. And that’s where we start.

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