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The tops of my feet are sunburnt. Oops. And Ow.
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I (we) have at least eighty people regularly reading Distorted Reflections on ff.net, as near as I can tell from hit count patterns. Only THREE of them have commented (several times each, which is nice, but still). It's just so fucking depressing to see that a 5000 word J/S fluff piece of crap has dozens (and is broken into twelve chapters of course). I've theorized in the past that the fewer comments something has, means it's either horrible OR conversely it's one of the best things on there, because the majority of readers don't know what to do with it because it's not shippy or is someway or another not "mainstream". Self-protective theory, yes, I know.
I have to keep telling myself that at least I know people are reading, which helps. And it's not like I didn't know the strikes against it going in: it's long and it's complicated, and people get scared off by "crossover" no matter how many times and in how many ways I say that it's no different than if SG-1 was going to some Author Created Planet (or hell, even some little known canon planet like Pangar) with some well-developed OCs. It was never going to be a big thing anyway, and we were prepared for that. I just had hoped it would be a tiny bit bigger....
Hopefully, as we pimp it some more, people will find their way to it - it's gen, it's team, it's plotty! There are a lot of SG-1 fans who are willing to read gen, even if they won't read ships outside their own, and those are the ones we're going to try to reach more.
But this does feed into my general malaise with writing lately, I think. And yeah, if I wrote more, then I could get the stroking my ego apparently needs at the moment (logic is a BITCH), but I can't sit down and write anything.
'tis a vicious circle, yo. *sigh*
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I (we) have at least eighty people regularly reading Distorted Reflections on ff.net, as near as I can tell from hit count patterns. Only THREE of them have commented (several times each, which is nice, but still). It's just so fucking depressing to see that a 5000 word J/S fluff piece of crap has dozens (and is broken into twelve chapters of course). I've theorized in the past that the fewer comments something has, means it's either horrible OR conversely it's one of the best things on there, because the majority of readers don't know what to do with it because it's not shippy or is someway or another not "mainstream". Self-protective theory, yes, I know.
I have to keep telling myself that at least I know people are reading, which helps. And it's not like I didn't know the strikes against it going in: it's long and it's complicated, and people get scared off by "crossover" no matter how many times and in how many ways I say that it's no different than if SG-1 was going to some Author Created Planet (or hell, even some little known canon planet like Pangar) with some well-developed OCs. It was never going to be a big thing anyway, and we were prepared for that. I just had hoped it would be a tiny bit bigger....
Hopefully, as we pimp it some more, people will find their way to it - it's gen, it's team, it's plotty! There are a lot of SG-1 fans who are willing to read gen, even if they won't read ships outside their own, and those are the ones we're going to try to reach more.
But this does feed into my general malaise with writing lately, I think. And yeah, if I wrote more, then I could get the stroking my ego apparently needs at the moment (logic is a BITCH), but I can't sit down and write anything.
'tis a vicious circle, yo. *sigh*
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sorry, I'm feeling ranty about this. Obviously I shouldn't have looked at the hit counter. :/
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I've had similar rants, m'self.
I once had someone ask (in a review) "why don't you have more reviews?" like. It's my fault stupid people can't spend a minute of their busy-feedbacking-third-rate-hacks-lives to give me a one-word 'nice!' review.
The problem with the comment or else 'boppers is that they get comments. And it's annoying. Because there are a lot of really good writers that get ignored, because people would rather read badly-written crap.
Or rather, a lot of really good writers figure no one actually likes their stuff, so they stop writing in certain fandoms and/or move on to where there's more feedback (roomie, for instance, used to write X-Men fic. Until she discovered that Ghost in the Shell fans will give a hell of a lot more feedback).
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Usually I know all this and it's okay. just not today because my feet are lobster colored and I'm in a pissy mood. And I know you know, because we are SISTERS, and I wish I had talked to you YEARS ago. :D
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Or they're lazy. Like me.
Or, and this is the other reason, they don't read multi-chapter things in bits and pieces. I, for instance, shall be probably reading it all at once. I might even print it out and read it.
On a Saturday, I'm thinking.
Possibly while listening to lots of soundtracks.
*blinks* That had never occured to me, you know. But it does make a scary sort of sense. And actually, you should be glad you didn't know me during my Sam/Jack phase. It was... hairy.
*grins* *snugs*
ps. this awful thread on Skiffy is making me giggly. http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?showtopic=2281928
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GRRR anyway.
The multi-chapter thing is a strong deterrent too, to some, yes. But, er, be aware that DR is VERY LONG. Many, many trees will die for printing it out and environmentally I can't really recommend it. :)
*blinks* So Kara's not a girl? Wow. Clearly they forgot to ask both Sam and Lee about that, because I don't think they'd agree. *snicker*