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Mar. 14th, 2012 10:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hmpfFamily stuff; staying at a place without internet connection, probably.
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Oh, and this bit from a comments conversation (at dreamwidth) seems like I should post it in a more visible place:
>>BTW, I really hope all my talking about The MAD Doctrine hereabouts hasn't built up your expectations too much. I'm kinda terrible when I've finished something (and also before I finish something, come to think of it :D) - I just can't stop talking about it.
It's perfectly okay to be underwhelmed by the fic. Just saying. :-) I mean, reactions so far have been really good, and even without feedback I would be pretty sure I have a good story there, on some level. But ultimately fic is at least as much about hitting the right "kink" buttons as it is about the technicalities of writing, so even a good story may fall flat for some readers. And also, of course, opinions on what's a good story, even just on technical terms, vary... and even I may come to think, eventually, that The MAD Doctrine wasn't that good after all. It's just pretty damn good for me at my current level of skill, but that's a rather relative kind of "good". :D
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- Just seemed like a thing I should perhaps say clearly and in public, seeing as how I've been monologising about my fic for months here, now.
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Oh, and this bit from a comments conversation (at dreamwidth) seems like I should post it in a more visible place:
>>BTW, I really hope all my talking about The MAD Doctrine hereabouts hasn't built up your expectations too much. I'm kinda terrible when I've finished something (and also before I finish something, come to think of it :D) - I just can't stop talking about it.
It's perfectly okay to be underwhelmed by the fic. Just saying. :-) I mean, reactions so far have been really good, and even without feedback I would be pretty sure I have a good story there, on some level. But ultimately fic is at least as much about hitting the right "kink" buttons as it is about the technicalities of writing, so even a good story may fall flat for some readers. And also, of course, opinions on what's a good story, even just on technical terms, vary... and even I may come to think, eventually, that The MAD Doctrine wasn't that good after all. It's just pretty damn good for me at my current level of skill, but that's a rather relative kind of "good". :D
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- Just seemed like a thing I should perhaps say clearly and in public, seeing as how I've been monologising about my fic for months here, now.
