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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: 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