Feedback tally... & inspired
Nov. 4th, 2003 08:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hmpfGot three new stories - 'Endure', 'Names', and 'Rise and Shine' on ff.net now which have been up for 2 and 1 days respectively, and sent 'Rise and Shine' to Leviathan yesterday. Also posted it at Kansas.
The tally so far: one review at ff.net - for 'Rise and Shine', more on that further down; two replies to my post at Kansas (where the average of replies to new fic is around 10), no replies at Leviathan, except for one personal message with very good feedback from a friend.
On the subject of that feedback at ff.net. Well... I must be doing something seriously wrong, 'cause the reader took the story to be humour. She says she laughed a lot. Actually, it was meant to be angst. Uhm...
Anyway, so far, the experiment seems to prove my extreme unpopularity - and the weird feedback from ff.net actually makes me wonder if I'm really doing something fundamentally wrong. On the other hand, all the other people I've tested the story on before posting it 'got' it - none of them mistook it for an attempt at humour. They all 'got' the angst. So, maybe it's just the reviewer, and not my writing... yeah, I think I'll go with that theory, for now. *g*
In other news, Olivia Crichton and Susan Whatever-her-name-may-be talked to me today. On the phone. ;-)Result: 3 pages (three pages. *three* pages. *three!!!* *pages!!!*) of fic. It's only dialogue, but still, it's over 800 words, which is probably more than I ever wrote in one day in my life!
I love inspiration. No idea where this came from, but I really love it. *g*
The tally so far: one review at ff.net - for 'Rise and Shine', more on that further down; two replies to my post at Kansas (where the average of replies to new fic is around 10), no replies at Leviathan, except for one personal message with very good feedback from a friend.
On the subject of that feedback at ff.net. Well... I must be doing something seriously wrong, 'cause the reader took the story to be humour. She says she laughed a lot. Actually, it was meant to be angst. Uhm...
Anyway, so far, the experiment seems to prove my extreme unpopularity - and the weird feedback from ff.net actually makes me wonder if I'm really doing something fundamentally wrong. On the other hand, all the other people I've tested the story on before posting it 'got' it - none of them mistook it for an attempt at humour. They all 'got' the angst. So, maybe it's just the reviewer, and not my writing... yeah, I think I'll go with that theory, for now. *g*
In other news, Olivia Crichton and Susan Whatever-her-name-may-be talked to me today. On the phone. ;-)Result: 3 pages (three pages. *three* pages. *three!!!* *pages!!!*) of fic. It's only dialogue, but still, it's over 800 words, which is probably more than I ever wrote in one day in my life!
I love inspiration. No idea where this came from, but I really love it. *g*
