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hmpf ([personal profile] hmpf) wrote2003-11-04 08:18 pm

Feedback tally... & inspired

Got 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*

[identity profile] dashan.livejournal.com 2003-11-04 12:10 pm (UTC)(link)
There's nothing wrong with qour writing, Sis! It can't be your fault, that this ... what-ever-she-seems-to-be hasn't brain enough to understand. *g*

Well, at least she liked the story.

[identity profile] hmpf.livejournal.com 2003-11-04 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)
In her own, peculiar way. I guess there's something to be said for being a misunderstood writer, as long as it means you're at least being read. *g*

I don't know whether this info helps, but...

[identity profile] bimo.livejournal.com 2003-11-06 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
I went over to FF.net and checked out your story. Apparently the girl who gave you that strange feedback is the same AnnaSun who commented on my little ficlet baby "Floating" only to ask me to review on her own stuff.

So I really wouldn't bother at all.

Thanks for the info.

[identity profile] hmpf.livejournal.com 2003-11-06 01:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, I was very tempted already not to take her feedback seriously. This just confirmed it. :-)