Lizardbeth's Tale

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*

Is freakin' killing me.

Tomorrow.

Tomorrow I'm going to start posting Distorted Reflections. I'm formatting the first few chapters in semagic for launch right now.

Hard to believe it's actually HERE!

*bounce*

Lori and I decided to do it in weekly chunks rather than all at once, because it's very long and formatting the whole thing at one go would be a nightmare. And, well, hoping for more comments this way doesn't make us terible people, I don't think. If people want to wait until it's finished posting, of course they can. It's not like it's not done, though (or 90% done -- we're still catching up on final edits to the back half, but close enough).

*bounce*

So anyway, f-flist and other interested parties, when tomorrow comes, come check it out! I hope people have as much fun reading as I did writing.

( BSG-Dirty Hands )

( Heroes )

In writing news, I'm doing final edits on Distorted Reflections, tightening it up some more. The front half is more done than the back, but I figure I can start posting that while still going over the back. It'll sort of be a WIP that way, but not really, since it's done, just not complete in final revision yet. So, soon. Like, really, truly Soon. GULP.

See, me and my writing partner have been working on this literally for years now (six months of the delay isn't our fault, since we had a beta flake out on us halfway through. *sigh*) but now that it's getting time, it's a bit anxiety-provoking.

Anyway, I made a community for it so people can friend distortd_ref freely. I will of course be spamming this puppy everywhere when it's actually up and running. *g*