ff'net and YOU....

[lyssie]

HAH. My supposition that posting Kara/Anders to ff'net would pretty much garner no feedback? Yeah. Born out (Circe, you've read it all already).

Surprisingly, the Dualla/Lee fic got a review.

Someone wanted to know why Kara and Lee don't end up together in ShagAThonAGoGo. I politely told her Chief has better stamina (my immediate response of, "Because I fucking hate Kara/Lee" would have been rude).

Still, if you add up all of the reviews I've ever gotten... It's still at least a thousand less than Nancy of the fruity wine fic, or the half-thousand Mary Sue authors. Probably far less than most of the Kara/Lee authors on there, too. Certainly a hell of a lot less than the other Sam/Jack authors.

Hell, the people who demand feedback to finish stories get more feedback than me.

Luckily, I keep reminding myself: the goodness of a story is in direct proportion to the amount of feedback. The more feedback, the more crap.

Comments

[musicforcylons.livejournal.com]

...may I ask a question?

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Certainly. o.O

[musicforcylons.livejournal.com]

You were expecting large signs of intelligent life on FFnet because...?

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

No. Well, not in general. I was just feeling masochistic. (and possibly mean at filling the Just In queue with Kara/Anders)

[ancarett]

I have noticed that feedback is also in proportion to the number of installments. So I propose breaking up my next 1000 word fic into 50 segments. That'd be how many words each? Hah!!!

Now I will have to go over to ff.net and look for your Kara/Anders story!

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

It also helps if you don't spell things correctly. *cute*

[ancarett]

Bonus points for bad spelling and no punctuation!

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

*blinks at second line, which she missed the first time around* Noooo. It's all stuff I've posted to lj.

[ancarett]

Okies! Then I have to catch up on your fic tags here. . . .

I have a backlog of bookmarked fic to read that is over 100 different links now. Why not add a few more! Whee! End of term canNOT come too soon!

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

And here's where I want to say, don't just read because I was whining and/or yay.

[ancarett]

Not because you were whining -- I have a backlog of recs and "wanna read laters" based upon two things only: I like the writer and/or I like the pair. In this case, both (I love Kara/Anders almost as much as I love(d) Lee/Kara).

[vickyocean.livejournal.com]

Since you speak of authors that have an wacky amount of reviews and because I'm feeling mean and bitchy at the moment. Telkana has begun posting a new fic. Everyone thought her other fics were of the wall, the summary alone on this one disturbs me to no end: "Loki’s latest experiment requires Jack to have a baby to save the Asgard race. Without impregnating a woman."

*shudders*

Y'know I thought that by ot reading slash I would never have to be subjected to mpreg. Guess not.

And if I watched the new BSG, I would read and totally dig your Kara/Anders. fic.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

...

......

OH DEAR GOD.

Please tell me she's not actually getting people telling her it's good?

Hee.

[vickyocean.livejournal.com]

I just realized how screwed up the typing was in that comment. The Benedryl I took must have kicked in when I was typing.

Her new fic has only got three so far, but they mostly consist of gushing. One person thinks it's a strange concept, but is willing to give it a chance.

I just hope my morbid curiosity will not insist I read it.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I speaketh good A.j. and Timey. Thusly, my brain translated more than enough.

Distract said curiosity by writing fic. *nods*

BE NICE! MY FIRST COMMENT! (i suk ar summerys)

[annerbhp.livejournal.com]

Buwhahaha. I have also noticed that the more...er...complex and/or subtle the story is the way less reviews it is likely to have. ffnet is a funny, funny thing (though, having a willing audience for a wip? Priceless). The fics of mine I am most proud of often garner the least reviews (but the most on LJ...puzzle me that). And no, I didn't just call ffnet readers simple or LJ people more intelligent. That would be mean. And a stereotype.

I have more to say...but I'm not going to continue unless you give me feedback on the first half of this comment.

Re: BE NICE! MY FIRST COMMENT! (i suk ar summerys)

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

I'm too busy making screencaps from Downloaded. Maybe later.

And the, ah, stereotype generally holds true. (although, in some cases, it's just that fandom is flonqin' odd, and so stuff that takes ten minutes and no characterization gets more feedback, but the stuff you spend time on and agaonize over is... ah, ignored.)

Re: BE NICE! MY FIRST COMMENT! (i suk ar summerys)

[annerbhp.livejournal.com]

I had an anonymous feedback from NoOneYouKnow typed up on your fic at ffnet, but what can I say...I chickened out. I suck. Basically it said:

"Great fic, but it would be better if it had more Lee/Kara. M'kay?" But more with the typos and belligerence.

Re: BE NICE! MY FIRST COMMENT! (i suk ar summerys)

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

BNWHAHAHAHAHAH. I probably would have mocked said review.

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

Hell, the people who demand feedback to finish stories get more feedback than me.

Ugh! Those people must be punished...

[greycoupon.livejournal.com]

I vote for shooting them or throwing 'em out an airlock.

[ancarett]

Ah, Laura Roslin gave us all a great precedent to follow, didn't she?

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I second the airlocking. And the people who feed their demands need to be shot.

[scarfman]

Luckily, I keep reminding myself: the goodness of a story is in direct proportion to the amount of feedback. The more feedback, the more crap.

I think you mean inverse proportion.

I never posted at ff.net because the email account I've had since 1995 came with a few megs of webhosting (it keeps rising but still after ten years it's almost full) and I prefer to control my stories' presentation myself. I only read there when following links from LJs of people I respect (and sometimes not even then because the navigation there isn't always transparent to me). Found some fun ones that way, and avoided most of the achingly unproofread ones. Good to know you post all yours here too.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Yes. I was sleepy and lazy when I typed.

I started posting there, because, um, it seemed the thing to do? Also, in that way, more good fic would be there.

I got lax, however. Really lax. Sigh.

Heh. Yeah, I used to actually frequent mailing lists, but with communities and msg boards and lj, they kinda died. So most (all, at this point) of my fic gets posted here.

[jashyr.livejournal.com]

With a bit of luck it'll get people over here to read quality stuff. [Insert diety here] knows it's difficult to find on ff.net. Just think of it as performing a public service.

There does appear to be a distinct lack of incentives to post quality fic over there, just a push to post in bulk to leapfrog to the top of the queue. After putting up with that kind of attitude for so long discovering LJ has been a bit of a culture shock. Actual encouragement happens...

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

*laughs* I never considered it that way.

Unfortunately, my updates tend to be in bulk, since I tend to randomly forget feel too lazy to upload to ff'net, and, ah, thus cause a massive influx of Kara/Anders fic to appear (or, last week, it was the backlog of Weir/Sheppard and Domino/Cable).

[livilla.livejournal.com]

I've found a good way to get feedback (any feedback), is to post a chapter fic and leave it hanging for a couple days. Some people are such suckers.

... I think your fic is awesome. I'd go comment on all of it if I could remember my name right now, let alone how to post coherent feedback.

*squishhugs*

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

AHAHAH. Yes, well, I'm not that, ah, dedicated to it, or I probably would.

Awww. *snugs* Thank you. And don't be silly!