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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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And now... I'm off to read the next chapter.
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(oh, and this wasn't meant for you, or anyone on lj. You've been very sweet. The lj posting is kind of my secret club where I figure the watchers are reading and that's fine. I get filled with glee every time I get another watcher on the list!)
And commenting reminds me, before lj went splodey I was going to tell you -- it's cool that (a) you met Gwyneth Walsh, and (b) that she might have come back. That means Egeria might have survived in canon for a little while. Which is v. interesting to wonder how the later alliance might have proceeded if she'd lived longer. (probably not, since the same writers would've been there, but besides that).