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Apr. 6th, 2005 06:20 amSkim to bottom for fic news, if interested
You know, normally I'm pretty much fine with the amount of feedback I get. On ff.n it averages out to about 8 comments for every chapter I put out, and that's really enough for me (although I'll sometimes wish that fics I'm prouder of that're in smaller fandoms would get the full eight reviews instead of most of them ending up in Harry Potter and Discworld). And I know that if I could just keep my mind on one thing long enough to update quickly (I'm sure that most people think I've abandoned all of my fics, when I actually haven't abandoned any of them, it just takes me forever to pull my head out of my ass and do anything, and when I do manage to do that it always ends up being for That Most Lonely Thing since it has the most readers so I feel the most guilty about leaving it hanging) I'd probably end up with a higher average since the more often they're near the top the more new readers they pull in.
So, normally pretty much content. Until I stumble across a completely awful Mary-Sueing, canon-thrashing, grammer-free pile of crap that has over a hundred positive reviews, as does it's equally bad sequel. I can claim that I'd take one piece of decent concrit over any ten of the drooling fangirl comments that mangled the english language just as badly as that fic did as much as I want, but I can't deny that seeing ten reviews in my inbox would give me a warm feeling in my stomach no matter how badly written they were. It makes me twitch a bit to think that if I threw off a badly written Mary Sue fic quickly enough in the fandom I saw that fic in I might also end up having more positive reviews on that one fic that I do on all my others put together.
Except I would never, ever, want my name on something like that.
Okay, the promised fic news. Firstly, this month I'll be giving chapter four of That Most Lonely Thing a rewrite. If you can remember when I first wrote it, it was an experiment in trying to write 10,000 words in one day to try and warm up for nanowrimo, and the fact that it was more about quantity then quality clearly shows. I put it up anyway, because this is just my ff.n draft so I didn't think it really mattered (as I've mentioned a couple of times before, anything unfinished that I put up on ff.n is usually a completely rough draft, so I can see how readers respond to it, fix up little mistakes they catch, and then send it off for betaing once it's done), but even for a rough draft parts of it really need to be torn apart a bit.
After that I'll try and keep up the tradition started last year (or start the tradition, since something just happening once isn't a tradition, when it happens again it becomes one) of having a new chapter of TMLT up on my birthday. That's toward the end of the month, so you have a few weeks to wait.
I'd also like to overhaul what I have of my FFX fic, so I can start working on that again. What's there was very quickly written over two years ago, and I'd like to think I've become a better writer since then. And I'll also hopefully get out a chapter (maybe two) of my 30_kisses fic sometime soon (that one is guaranteed a new chapter every other month at least, or else I'll lose the pairing).
*grins* So, clearly, for my birthday month at least I'm trying to become a bit industrious. Hopefully I can stick to the schedule. Maybe I should try to throw together a challange where people with WIPs each get assigned someone willing to read their story (and someone whose story they'd be willing to read of course) and they need to get a new chapter out for that person within a certain amount of time or they're out, just to get myself motivated: the only times I'm guaranteed to stick to a deadline is when I'm writing for someone else and know that they're also writing for someone else (i.e. during the yuletide challenge), because I'd feel terrible if they spent all that time working on a story for someone and then didn't get on in return. Because everytime I get busy writing (other then first chapters) it's spurred on by guilt.
You know, normally I'm pretty much fine with the amount of feedback I get. On ff.n it averages out to about 8 comments for every chapter I put out, and that's really enough for me (although I'll sometimes wish that fics I'm prouder of that're in smaller fandoms would get the full eight reviews instead of most of them ending up in Harry Potter and Discworld). And I know that if I could just keep my mind on one thing long enough to update quickly (I'm sure that most people think I've abandoned all of my fics, when I actually haven't abandoned any of them, it just takes me forever to pull my head out of my ass and do anything, and when I do manage to do that it always ends up being for That Most Lonely Thing since it has the most readers so I feel the most guilty about leaving it hanging) I'd probably end up with a higher average since the more often they're near the top the more new readers they pull in.
So, normally pretty much content. Until I stumble across a completely awful Mary-Sueing, canon-thrashing, grammer-free pile of crap that has over a hundred positive reviews, as does it's equally bad sequel. I can claim that I'd take one piece of decent concrit over any ten of the drooling fangirl comments that mangled the english language just as badly as that fic did as much as I want, but I can't deny that seeing ten reviews in my inbox would give me a warm feeling in my stomach no matter how badly written they were. It makes me twitch a bit to think that if I threw off a badly written Mary Sue fic quickly enough in the fandom I saw that fic in I might also end up having more positive reviews on that one fic that I do on all my others put together.
Except I would never, ever, want my name on something like that.
Okay, the promised fic news. Firstly, this month I'll be giving chapter four of That Most Lonely Thing a rewrite. If you can remember when I first wrote it, it was an experiment in trying to write 10,000 words in one day to try and warm up for nanowrimo, and the fact that it was more about quantity then quality clearly shows. I put it up anyway, because this is just my ff.n draft so I didn't think it really mattered (as I've mentioned a couple of times before, anything unfinished that I put up on ff.n is usually a completely rough draft, so I can see how readers respond to it, fix up little mistakes they catch, and then send it off for betaing once it's done), but even for a rough draft parts of it really need to be torn apart a bit.
After that I'll try and keep up the tradition started last year (or start the tradition, since something just happening once isn't a tradition, when it happens again it becomes one) of having a new chapter of TMLT up on my birthday. That's toward the end of the month, so you have a few weeks to wait.
I'd also like to overhaul what I have of my FFX fic, so I can start working on that again. What's there was very quickly written over two years ago, and I'd like to think I've become a better writer since then. And I'll also hopefully get out a chapter (maybe two) of my 30_kisses fic sometime soon (that one is guaranteed a new chapter every other month at least, or else I'll lose the pairing).
*grins* So, clearly, for my birthday month at least I'm trying to become a bit industrious. Hopefully I can stick to the schedule. Maybe I should try to throw together a challange where people with WIPs each get assigned someone willing to read their story (and someone whose story they'd be willing to read of course) and they need to get a new chapter out for that person within a certain amount of time or they're out, just to get myself motivated: the only times I'm guaranteed to stick to a deadline is when I'm writing for someone else and know that they're also writing for someone else (i.e. during the yuletide challenge), because I'd feel terrible if they spent all that time working on a story for someone and then didn't get on in return. Because everytime I get busy writing (other then first chapters) it's spurred on by guilt.