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writethisfanficI love all the cheerleading & commiserating going on in yesterday's check-in post! Yay! How's it going today?
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?
Poll #6857 Day 3 May WIP challenge check-in!
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 15
All right, how's the fic feeling today?
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:
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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Date: Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011 22:11 (UTC)(I stopped there because (a) bedtime and it's work tomorrow, (b) those 750 words will probably double when I edit*, and (c) I KILLED THE EVIL REWRITE OF EVIL.)
If I'm feeling particularly motivated, I might even get out of bed early to finish.
I also had a massive life-affirming 'hey, I just realised that I write publishable prose' epiphany moment a few hours ago, so I'm feeling pretty good all around, really.
*Happens at the end of every fic's writing stage. "So... close... can finish today... ah, whatever. Rush to the finish line! Fix it when you edit!"
Comments!
I like comments. I try to leave them on most things I finish reading - certainly I try to leave them for my circle. This isn't always successful... I hate leaving 'I liked this!' comments (love getting them, don't misunderstand me...!), so I try to leave a decent-length review. Which causes problems when I'm in a hurry. Inevitably I end up forgetting I meant to review at all.
I'm honestly not sure how much I'm motivated by comments. On the one hand, for a long fic, it's definitely a nice carrot to dangle ahead of myself. On the other, it's not the most common one: that's usually 'and then you can start the next thing!'. I certainly don't tailor what I'm writing to when I think will be popular. Couldn't if I wanted to, since I only write gen or ace romance :p
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Date: Wednesday, May 4th, 2011 03:59 (UTC)no subject
Date: Wednesday, May 4th, 2011 16:56 (UTC)& yay for self-affirming epiphany!
I get nervous about whether or not my comments on fic are worthy of the story. But then I remember that I would rather a brief (or rambly, or awkward, or incoherent--delete as appropriate) comment on my fic than nothing at all, so I try to push through my embarrassment to leave lots of them!
I feel better seeing all these people saying that they can't really write what's popular even if they wanted to. That sounds mean! I just mean that it's good to have company (although I have written a few stories that are markedly more popular than my others, b/c it's a rare time when I do like a popular pairing, more often that doesn't happen for me). ;)
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Date: Wednesday, May 4th, 2011 22:10 (UTC)Yeah, I should try harder to leave simple comments. Next time I read a fic, I'll try to remember XD