WIP challenge check-in: day 3!

[littlebutfierce]

I love all the cheerleading & commiserating going on in yesterday's check-in post! Yay! How's it going today?

Poll #6857 Day 3 May WIP challenge check-in!

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 15

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All right, how's the fic feeling today?

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I AM A GENIUS
1 (6.7%)

Not bad!
10 (66.7%)

SHUT UP SHUT UP
1 (6.7%)

...
3 (20.0%)

And what did you do today, fic-wise?

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Write
10 (66.7%)

Edit
2 (13.3%)

Send to beta
0 (0.0%)

Research
1 (6.7%)

Procrastinate
7 (46.7%)

Something else I will describe in comments
1 (6.7%)

3 words or less to describe your fic today:

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And in keeping with the fanfic flamingo theme, let's talk about comments. The flamingo has a lot to say about comments.

I think I can identify with all of those images, heh. My favorite might be this one, though:



[Background — a six piece pie style colour split in three shades of pink. Foreground — the long neck and face of a pink flamingo.

Top text: POUR HEART AND SOUL INTO FEMMESLASH EPIC

Bottom text: 5 COMMENTS]

So! Comments! Do you find them a big motivator? Do you find yourself working more on stories that you anticipate will get a lot of comments? Or maybe you're in a tiny fandom or your OTP is really obscure/unpopular: do you find that this means you don't worry about getting comments (maybe it just makes you really, really want the one comment from the one person who'll get the story!)? Are they icing on the cake, but not something you think about while you're actually writing a story? Do you not care at all (or try not to)? Be honest!

&, importantly, do you leave comments yourself?

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[curuchamion]

Re comments: I do not comment. Much at all. *hangs head* This is particularly bad because I love getting comments. (Don't we all?)

I don't gear my writing toward comments, though, or think about comment-likelihood while I'm writing a story. My most popular stories have all been "what, people like that? ah, popular keywords in the title/summary", and my least popular are mostly "eh, it's in a tiny fandom. Two comments is all it'll get - but the other two fans are Great Writers, so if they like it, I'm happy."

(I write gen, so it's less imperative that I write to the kinks of my audience, and anyway 99% of my story inspirations are "hey, nobody's done this! why not?" Thus it's pretty hard to predict what anyone will like, so I just focus on making the best fic I can and hope it isn't utter dreck at the end of the day.)

I shall be back with remarks about my actual writing progress at midnight GMT, because I have that long to make my other 1110 words for today... O_O

[glitteryv]

anyway 99% of my story inspirations are "hey, nobody's done this! why not?"

Hee, that's totally me too! I've often said that I write primarily for myself (excluding auction fics, obvs.) Because there are times when you really want to read XYZ thing with AB pairing and no one has written it . . .and next thing you know, you're 1,000 words into writing that very story.

*cheers you on for late night progress*

[anehan]

That's one of the reasons why I started to write fanfic in the first place. I wanted to tell the kind of stories that I wanted to read and that no one else was writing for me.

[littlebutfierce]

I think a lot of people are in the "love comments, don't leave them much" camp, hehehe.

It's interesting that mostly nobody so far seems to have admitted to being swayed, topic/pairing-wise, by the likelihood of comments--I remember reading some meta posts a while ago where it seemed quite the thing to admit (in the posts or the comments to the posts) that you'd done so. Heh!

I write both smut & gen, but it is... trying... sometimes, how much more difficult it can be to find an audience for the latter.