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timepiececlock...and you left them and us hanging flat! No fair! Go get layed or whatever you need and get on with the show!
That... is the most interesting way I've ever had someone ask me for a fanfiction update.
Would that I could, my friend. Would. that. I. could.
That... is the most interesting way I've ever had someone ask me for a fanfiction update.
Would that I could, my friend. Would. that. I. could.
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Date: 2006-01-28 05:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-28 06:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-28 06:24 am (UTC)In all my years of fan ficcing, I've never had anyone put the "get laid" card down in a review. Then I hardly ever post before a story is completely finished. Except for that one time ...
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Date: 2006-01-28 06:27 am (UTC)I've never had anyone put the "get laid" card down in a review.
Me EITHER. It's funny, but kinda weird. I'm having mixed reactions: flattery for the overall review; sort of de facto pleased that she can guess by my writing that I'm not of the fourteen year old ficcing crowd as many of this fandom are; a little weirded out; and giggly. There was much of the eye-brow raising.
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Date: 2006-01-28 06:52 am (UTC)Hey, at least you're getting reviews.
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Date: 2006-01-28 07:04 am (UTC)At this point I've gotten more reviews from Avatar fandom than I have in all my other fandoms combined. It's really weird for me-- I've only ever gotten 1-40 reviews on most fics, and now I've got one fic with over 100 and one with just over 200. Avatar fandom seems to be really "review-happy", compared to, say, what I get for FMA fandom (typically less than 5 per one-shot) or Trigun. I can't help but wonder if it's because I'm, like, older than 65% of the fandom for once.
Maybe if you advertised your fic or fic updates on one of the LJ communities? I've done that before, and it did help somewhat.
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Date: 2006-01-28 08:48 am (UTC)The pieces I'm really proud of, I'm lucky if I get 4 or 5 reviews. :/ I suppose it could be blamed on the nature of the work against the mean age of the fan fic reading audience. Translation: They just don't "get it".
Skimming the stories that get TONS of reviews (your stuff excluded, obviously), it seems to be meandering, pointless globs of garbage, garbage that goes on and on and on for endless chapters with no real goal apparent. Also, I'm not sure if it's pandering or just what those authors are "good at" (I use those words in the loosest sense of them). I write what I'd be interested in reading. No wonder I can't find much fan fic out there that gets or keeps my attention.
I've advertised fic a couple of times. For some odd reason, I'm never comfortable doing that. I'd be horrible in the advertising business.
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Date: 2006-01-28 09:01 am (UTC)Skimming the stories that get TONS of reviews (your stuff excluded, obviously), it seems to be meandering, pointless globs of garbage, garbage that goes on and on and on for endless chapters with no real goal apparent.
With my current Avatar fic I've updated more often than any other fic except my Harry Potter drabbles. When I think about it, that has to be the reason-- as long as you update, it doesn't matter how good it is. I can read long gorgeous fanfics that get the exact same number of reviews and long trails of bile disguised as writing. And then there's the occasional fic that's pretty decent and longer than the bile-train, but somehow can't break the 50 review mark.
I consider my fanfic around the B to B+ range, given that I've seen what A and A+ looks like and I know I'm not there, but I also feel I'm above a C. But what's a B in one fandom is an A in another, it also seems... ::sigh::
The pieces I'm really proud of, I'm lucky if I get 4 or 5 reviews. :/ I suppose it could be blamed on the nature of the work against the mean age of the fan fic reading audience. Translation: They just don't "get it".
I can't explain that either, but it's the same way for me. I've heard other people say that too. All I know is that my all-time favorite of all my fanfics, my post-Chosen Spike fic "This Is Your Life", has 4 reviews. (most of my Buffy fics have less than 10, actually...)
What's the fanfic you're proudest of?
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Date: 2006-01-28 09:23 am (UTC)I'm still searching for the A work, honestly. I couldn't even grade my own stuff, since I look at it then at everyone else and wonder why I even bother. Not because they're particularly better writers, but I'm not producing something that will catch a person's interest. Other than my own.
What's the fanfic you're proudest of?
I'd probably give that spot to two stories - Back In The Bottle (a Buffy/Brimstone crossover) and the one I last produced, Celestial Navigation (Fullmetal Alchemist). (Runners up would be either one of my Cowboy Bebop/Trigun crossovers. The research time on that was brain-breaking. Not to mention the research material in general was brain-breaking.
I hate you quantum physics and wormholes and black holes and dark matter!!!But those fics received decent reviews, so I can't complain.)Granted, the former has over 5 reviews, but I felt that was first class work and I put tons of research time into it, to make sure the mythologies of both series' universes meshed believably. The latter, part of the lack of response might be because it's centered on manga-verse events. Al doesn't have much fic about him, and that was an idea that nagged at me until it was done. However, the one person I most wrote it for -
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Date: 2006-01-28 09:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-28 06:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-28 06:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-28 07:05 am (UTC)I'm spending tonight catching up on Stargate: Atlantis episodes.
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Date: 2006-01-28 04:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-28 05:55 pm (UTC)-------------------
OKAY. I'VE READ THEM ALL. You are the best writer on this fandom; probably by a factor of two or three. I admit, there are a couple of other authors I'm still following, and I am looking forward to see what they do next. But Hello! You got the characters down, and even though the drabbles show a lot of talent and occasionally interesting direction no one else is pushing the envelope (if you'll pardon the cliche) quite like you have managed so get off your dufus and write again! You've got a nice tension built up between these two with the dialog. There is a hazy potential threat to them both threatening the future, the UST (or some kind of tension roiling there unacknowledged - em, yeah!)and you left them and us hanging flat! No fair! Go get layed or whatever you need and get on with the show! Oops, I guess I am supposed to be much more appreciative and fawning over my favorite writers. Sorry, babe. I think you're better than that. You know, a Hemingway without th
e angst (or self dramatization - go get a shrink for pete's sake!) Anyway, write and post something more, and don't cry school work as an excuse. We've all been there (some of us multiple times) and know that passion knows no jailors! I only wish I could write as well! You go, girl!
-R
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Date: 2006-01-28 06:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-28 06:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-01-28 07:20 am (UTC)Yeah, saying it doesn't make it happen. If she really wanted to help, she'd offer to, like, pimp you her hot boyfriend or something. ;)
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Date: 2006-01-28 07:22 am (UTC)(imagine this was posted anonymously)
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Date: 2006-01-28 06:01 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-01-31 05:16 am (UTC)UPDATE NOW OR DIE
Only COLD slaw and gruel?
Yes, master!
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Date: 2006-01-31 10:37 am (UTC)Damn, you better get writing. We can't lose pie. Pie is not to be compromised.