One of those days

[lizardbeth]

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*

Comments

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Sweetie, it's not the 5,000-word fics that are getting reviews.

It's the tiny, short, badly-spelled and OOC- S/J fluff with babies and painfully impossible (or boring) porn that get the reviews. Either that, or it's the well-written, still OOC, novel-length romance novels that have had the main characters' names replaced with 'Sam' and 'Jack'.

Trust me. I know the angst and annoyance. Even if the last massive-length fic I wrote was a LotR Mary Sue. ;)

[rosiethehobbit.livejournal.com]

If you know that many people are taking the time to read something that long, you know people are liking it. No one sticks with something this long if it isn't interesting. Yes, feedback would be nice. And feel free to rant. I know I don't leave feedback as often as I should. Largely because I don't know what to say and I feel stupid just putting 'nice' or 'liked it' or something like that.

And now... I'm off to read the next chapter.

[telscha.livejournal.com]

hugs. i know how that goes. That is the reason i am giving up writing fanfic. Working on the last piece now.