Motivations and fanfiction

[nancylebov]

I'm doing a button that says "I tell lies for money" which I think will mostly appeal to professional writers.

It would be nice to have something similar for fanfiction writers, but I'm not sure of the best phrasing.

I tell lies for fun.
I tell lies for egoboo. (good except that egoboo -- praise from a home community -- is a word that never made it out of fanzine fandom so far as I know)
I tell lies for love. (probably the most accurate, but the connotations don't work)

Thoughts? Suggestions?

Comments

[richardthinks.livejournal.com]

I know whuffie but not egoboo. Kudos works anyway, of course, although I don't know the cited source.

I tell lies in my spare time.

I don't know what the truth is.
I wouldn't know the truth if it bit me.

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

Really? I've known egoboo for decades, but I've never seen whuffie before, and it's not obvious from the shape of the word what it means.