WIP Challenge Check-in -- Day 12

[linaewen]

Greetings, fellow writers!  How goes it today?  Is it an awesome day for you, or are you thinking of going back to bed (or going to bed early, depending on your time zone)?

What writing-related pursuit did you engage in today?

• Writing
• Editing
• Sent to beta
• Posted
• Procrastinating
• Planning/Researching
• Something else I will describe in comments

For those who got some writing in, what was your word count?

I thought it might be interesting to discuss the following topic, brought to us by the ever-insightful Fanfic Flamingo:

 

For discussion:  How do you feel about reviews (or the lack thereof)?  Do you mind if you don't get any -- even when you know without doubt your fic is awesome?  Does the lack of reviews affect your inspiration or willingness to continue writing? 

Comments

[anyssia]

Post-it planning? Do you mean with a software like Scrivener or something, or a good old fashioned cork board and yellow post-its? If the lastest, I'd love to see that xD
(makes me think about my recent chaptered fic. If I had to put everything single idea on post-it... wow O.o lots and lots of post-its xDDDD)

If I don't get hits at all I take it that I need to re-write the fic summary to make it more enticing.
There is that too. I read and recced a fic a while ago, that was awesome in my opinion.
Still, I hesitated to rec it because I was persuaded that everybody in my circle had already read it, as it is a theme (FFVII time travel) that interests all my friends.
Turned out that none of them had read it because the summary hadn't attracted them O.O But afterward they all told me that they had loved the story. So, yeah for recs \O/

(something that made me all happy was to see reviews from my friends that author's story review page, after I had recced it. I was all: "People liked it! I helped this author gain new followers/reviewers, yay!" ;p )