My inbox today... yeah, that probably would help my writer's block.

[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.

Comments

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Did you get the episodes I posted before? I posted about half, and meant to post the rest. I was planning to post the rest sometime this week.

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.

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

You gave me a link to an episode community. I joined it, for when I do have the chance to check it out.

Hey, at least you're getting reviews.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I'm really sorry to hear that. You deserve lots of reviews! ::hugs::

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.

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

It's troubling when I get the most reviews for the fics I was never that happy with when I posted them. I keep rereading that ShikaTema fic and wanting to burn it because I think it's horrible now. I can't take it down since it's fairly "popular" in that little sub-fandom.

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.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

If advertising makes you nervous, you don't have to phrase it as and vertisement. Just list title, author, pairing/gen, summary, and provide a link. That's what I do-- I don't like having extra commentary to "advertise" per se, because I don't know what to write.


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?

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

Just posting up a link makes me uncomfortable. Even saying to my own FL, "Hey, I wrote this fic - look, if you're interested" takes a lot of self-badgering. I have serious self-esteem issues when it comes to my writing, which should be odd, considering I that I post up as much as I do. Believe you me, I have notebooks full of fan fic that will probably never see the light of the Internets.

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 - shiveringjemmy - gave feedback via my LJ. Even if it stays there until the end of time with no reviews, I probably won't care. It did get quite a few hits. Maybe it was read and maybe it wasn't. The world may never know. Or I won't.

[donna-c-punk.livejournal.com]

I feel like such a pimp but - any of the installments in my Dark!Harry series (Harry Potter) are works I'm proud of. But, yeah, they received decent reviews.