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

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...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.

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[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.