Holy frelling dren!

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I just checked my website stats. I'll be honest: I wanted to see if the rec I got at the crack_van recently had resulted in any more recs, and since reccers rarely (I'm tempted to say 'never', as none of mine has ever told me, but there may be the occasional reccer - me, for instance *g* - who sends the authors a mail when they rec something) tell you they've recced your stuff, checking the website visitor stats is pretty much the only way to find out...

Usually I have visitor numbers ranging from 40 hits on a bad day to 200 on a *very* good day.

On Thursday the 2nd of June, the day I got recced, I got 1400 hits.

1400.

One thousand four hundred hits. In one single day.

That's the great part.

Now for the depressing part: from those 1400 hits resulted one, I repeat, *one* bit of feedback. (Not counting feedback from friends, 'cause, you know, that doesn't really count.)

I should probably clarify that that extremely high number of hits does *not* mean 1400 people read my fic. The fic in question is split into 20 pages, and I can follow pretty well how many people actually read all of it by checking how many people read the last page: 75 people endured all of 'Endure'. *g* But still, that's 75 people who read it, and only one new person who gave feedback.

Maybe the other 70 or so didn't like it. But then, why did they keep reading?

Ah well. I'm happy it got recced and happy for the feedback I got. But sometimes, I can't help wondering. :-)

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cause I'm posting from work, which really I shouldn't do, but...

;-)

No, that desert isn't radiation blighted. It's just an alien, uninhabited planet. There's a whole universe of backstory for that story that I had to figure out in my head but couldn't include in the story itself...

And don't worry, he's not going to continue like that forever... not that it's getting *better*, exactly... *eg*


And what's that intriguing info aminspace gave me about you and Doctor/Methos? Were you the person I was talking to on time_and_chipsabout that? Or was that someone else?

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No, that was me.

And It's not as if aminspace has even read the first draft! The backstory to this is that I got bitten by a Captain Jack bunny last week, while working on the Methos/Doctor fic and thus had to explain to Methos that I was only going to focus on Jack/and the Doctor for a moment or two.

That moment turned into 2900+ words entitled "Bathtubs & Bananas" and it looks as if it might spawn a sequel, in that I had the next scene in mind from Rose's POV.

But I'm heading back to the pub (the fictional one) this weekend to meet up with Methos and the Doctor again. It's currently 1st draft 5000+ words and I'll be hammering out revisions form later today. It's pre-slash or post-slash. It's fabulous fun to write and if it didn't mean I'd end up writing a novel (Which RL doesn't permit at this point) I'd go utterly AU and have Methos deciding to bypass Duncan's Clan insanity/the gathering & move into the TARDIS.

But hey let me get a first draft locked, er first.

Then I'll pitch a tent over in highlander_lj and beg for a beta.

Bear in mind that I did 3 rewrites for "Bathtubs" so this might not hit the web till after the end of the show. Makes little difference mind you, it's set between "Father's Day" & "Empty Child"

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'Bathtubs and Bananas' is a great title. Looking forward to the fic. :-)

Wow... you're one of those people who can actually write a 5000+ word story in a few weeks... I envy you. I wish I could be fast, too. I'm one of those people who consider it an exceptionally good day when they've written half a page. Most days I don't get around to writing at all, though, and on a *normal*, non-exceptional writing day I only manage a few sentences. Hence the dearth of fic on my page - about 10 fics in 5 years isn't really a lot, is it?

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I did make it clear that "Bathtubs" is the Jack/Doctor fic? *Scrolls up* Yup think I did.

5000+ words in a few weeks is fast? Really?! *gulps* I've come back to writing fanfic (in the last month) b/c I got accepted into an MA Creative Writing program that starts in September and am terrified that I *don't* write fast enough. So part of this is honing speed. Another part is pushy muses.

My aim is to get up to 1000 on weekdays and 2500+ on weekends.

about 10 fics in 5 years isn't really a lot, is it?

Yes, but it's about quality not quantity No? Prior to this month, well look in my memories. I'd only written 3 short fics and one multi-part since when? 2002? 2001?

Talk to me at the end of the month and let's see if I'm truly prolific.

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You know, I thought about picking up a pen while I'm on holiday - the main thing that's putting me off is that I just know my nosy ma would get her hands on it, and I don't want my mother reading my pron.

It's not as if aminspace has even read the first draft!

I'm bad, aren't I? No pressure *g*