WIP Challenge check in: day 4 - Tuesday

[lilly_c]

How's the writing going today?

Poll #15044

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Today I

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wrote
4 (100.0%)

edited
1 (25.0%)

posted
1 (25.0%)

sent to beta
0 (0.0%)

researched/planned
1 (25.0%)

had a cheeky break
0 (0.0%)

dealt with life
1 (25.0%)

My progress is

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Mean: 9.00 Median: 9 Std. Dev 1.00

Ugh! 1		0 (0.0%)
2		0 (0.0%)
3		0 (0.0%)
4		0 (0.0%)
5		0 (0.0%)
6		0 (0.0%)
7		0 (0.0%)
8		2 (50.0%)
9		0 (0.0%)
Great 10		2 (50.0%)

Discussion: I liked your fic but I don't like the pairing.



Have you ever had reviews like that?

I think I've only had that and something similar to it about a particular pairing a few times but I do tend to write and often ship the rarer pairings that aren't as loved by fandoms that I'm involved with.

Comments

[lea_hazel]

I wrote a lot and I wrote (I think) well, and it was fun. Best case scenario, I'm pleased.

I have gotten strange comments about pairings, but I can't recall any off the top of my head that were specifically of this type. Maybe in one of my fandoms of yore.

[ladygriddlebone]

Got this a lot way back in the day when I had just started writing InuYasha fic. Everything I posted was practically guaranteed to get at least one "I don't like Mir/San, but..." comment. That, or "but what about [insert super popular ship name]?!"

[linaewen]

I wrote both yesterday and today, and posted both stories. I'd be more pleased about it if they hadn't both been the worst things ever to post! Not sure what the problem was, but I had many unusual issues while trying to get the things posted. Even so, it's nice to have them done on time -- and I proved I can still sit down and write a whole story in one go if I have to!

I haven't written a "shipping" story yet, so I haven't had to deal with such comments. I've had similar remarks, however, when I write characters a different way than people expect to see them. "I like your fic but I don't think So and So would really be like that..."

[krait]

I'm a nobody in the fanfic world, so I've only ever had one comment that this discussion applies to.

Short version: I posted a friendship-centric fic (featuring one canonically gay character), labelled it Gen, and added "preslash if you lean that way" in the tags. It received a few comments, including one person who clearly preferred to see it as preslash (and to whom I replied that, yes, I had some unposted possible-sequel bits that were slash). One of the comments it received, though, was along the lines of 'I'm so glad it isn't slash, it doesn't NEED to be slash!'

I was just kind of amused, really, considering that I thought my tags made it pretty clear that I was open to a slash interpretation (and had confirmed a personal bias toward slash in the comments, though of course those might not have been read by the commenter) yet the comment was so emphatic about it being a non-slash fic. :D