Did I mention

[cornerofmadness]

That I stumbled over a steampunk open call that I need to hurry my butt along to re-edit my Newport RI one and send it in. If anyone's interested, let me know.

Dad read the steampunk one I published this...with google at his finger tips apparently fact checking it. Um...

I reread a series I had started post Not Fade Away, three relatively short series that I knew had more stories to tell but new fandoms edged in. I would like to go back and finish it which is what they wanted to talk to me about when I was driving. If I do it, those stories shouldn't be too hard to do.

WHat isn't talking are the original stories that should be or any of the damn fandom_stocking stories. Sigh. I have exactly one. Gah


My story was the spicy advent story of the day and you can find it here It's ridiculously long for what it was meant to be. It's part of the Hyperion's Son universe. It's holiday setting Buffy/Angel and Connor's first time with Dawn (though still struggling with recovery)

And thanks to kerk_hiraeth who is helping me find all those Open_on_Sunday drabbles. Much appreciated.

Got some holiday cards so thanks to spiffikins evil_little_dog & dragonydreams




What made you start writing fanfic?
Which of your own fanfics have you reread the most?
Describe the differences between your first fanfic and your most recent fanfic.
Do you think your style has changed over time? How so?
You've posted a fic anonymously. How would someone be able to guess that you'd written it?
Name three stories you found easy to write.
Name three stories you found difficult to write.
What's your ratio of hits to kudos?
What do your fic bookmarks say about you?
What's a theme that keeps coming up in your writing?
What kind of relationships are you most interested in writing?
For E-rated fic, what are some things your characters keep doing?
Name three favorite characters to write.
You're applying for the fanfic writer of the year award. What five fanfics do you put in your portfolio?

What's your ratio of hits to kudos? Horrible, that's what it is. I'm not doing the math on this but for every 50 hits or so I get a single kudo. so yeah I prefer not to even look at that mess. And I hate to say it but FFN STILL nets me more comments than AO3 which somehow sad.

ETA thanks to enemytosleep I found where the stats actually are. So my hits to kudos ratio is 3.9%. LIke I said awful.

Comments

[dlgood]

Re:Kudos, my theory is that people are supremely lazy and many readers like what they read, but don't bother to click it.

[cornerofmadness]

I suspect you're right there. It makes me more nuts when it's my original fiction and they can't even be bothered to leave a star review because that's how Amazon's algorithms work. If they would just do that their favorite authors who do better, sell more and write more. sigh.

[enemytosleep]

I'd like to see fandom_stocking post some more stockings though? Even though I have a bunch of stuff I'm working on, it's sort of annoying that it's so far behind schedule. Oh well, life's big problems, eh?

As for AO3 stats, I recently took a peek at some of mine since I had a 6 year hiatus. There is definitely a big difference between the different fandons I have stuff posted for. Natsume Yuujinchoi by FAR has the highest hits:kudos ratio as well as the most bookmarks and comments. FMA has steady hits and decent kudos - the rest are basically in ghost towns. That said, there is a strange anomaly in the FMA stuff where a piece of chibi!Ling fanart has 4 times the number of views than any other fanfic or fanart I have posted? I'm not sure what happened with that, but it's kind of fucking funny.

So I guess it depends on the fandoms you post for? I think AO3 has a younger, newer audience than FFN so ongoing series are more popular with readers? I'm sort of a fandom geezer myself now so I'm just basing this off of my own stats. Once the fandom_stocking collection goes live we'll really see what's up asI have a handful of Voltron drabbles going up and I feel like those will get a ton of hits since the final season just hit Netflix on December 14th.

[cornerofmadness]

I would like to see that to re: fandom stocking. At least I have one going tonight.

I don't even know if there is a place where AO3 collects those stats (I just eyeballed it). You may be right about the age of the fandoms vs the age of the readers. I hate to say it but I haven't found too many TV shows or anime/manga that have made me want to do fanfic in man, the last 5 years or more. Lucifer came closest and all I do is drabbles for that.

[enemytosleep]

If you go to your AO3 dashboard, there is a list of things on the left-side column. The third section down has: Inbox, Statistics, History, and Subscriptions. The Stats will let you see all of your works and sort them by hits, kudos, bookmarks, etc. If you want to torture yourself anyway LOL.

I'm now at 6 stockings done with 5 more with rough drafts in various states. I'm guessing that will be about what I finish as after xmas my free time will be much more limited. I don't write for work though so it's not the same as you having more shit to edit and write and get out for deadlines.

[cornerofmadness]

I didn't think to look under preferences. Thanks. Yeah that IS depressing. Yikes.

That IS impressive. Kudos. Yeah right now I have nothing in the pipeline other than edits on a SF story should be starting in a few weeks (I need to ask about that). And I have some more I want to get going on so yeah I don't like to take TOO much time from my writing for fanfic (which sucks because a) I like it b) I have two stories in my head right now (three if I include the FMA one) that won't leave me be)

[thenewbuzwuzz]

Hmm, do you have a lot of multichapter works? Then people can't leave multiple kudos, but I think it's a new hit when they come back for a new chapter.

Hey, it could mean your stories are so good that people reread them a lot. ;)

Or maybe they want to leave kudos, but something like this happens... https://archiveofourown.org/works/5993785/chapters/13772455

[gracenm]

Hahaha, oh thank you for that hilarious read, buzwuzz!

[cornerofmadness]

That is true. Many of mine are chaptered fic and rereads probably consist of a lot of those hits. I honestly don't care much one way or the other with fanfic. It's my original fiction that it matters to me about getting amazon reviews because of how amazon works

[gracenm]

Looking forward to the spicy advent story!

[cornerofmadness]

Thanks!