writing blues

[cornerofmadness]

Waiting on a meeting but too icky weak sort of sick but not really so i'm not actually working...

instead I'm groaning. If no punctuation is good enough for James Joyce and no description good enough for Hemmingway why must I use either? Am I not god enough for you to divine from my talking heads exactly where my story is set? Why should I describe it to you? Punctuation,bah, surely you know where the commas go, put them in mentally as you read.

Sigh. yes this means I'm staring at a pile of edits i must make to transform the rough draft into something that won't make you all retch.

Curious side note. My Fullmetal Alchemist stories totally club my Buffy stories in sheer amounts of hits. I mean totally decimates Buffy. Thousands upon thousdands of hits. On the other hand, my Buffy readers actually comment where the FMA ones rarely ever do. Hmmm a mystery.

Comments

[mjules.livejournal.com]

Quitcherbitchin'. I don't like Hemingway OR Joyce.

And anyway, I didn't put THAT many notes in it.

I did, however, bring this icon out of retirement just for you. One of the first ones I made. *grins broadly*

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

love the icon. Pleaseyou should see some of the other fic lying here with no freaking description. The damage done by the one writers group a decade ago is STILL with me.

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Is it possible that "Buffy" readers just had a much wider selection to wade through and so didn't stumble across yours as often as FMA readers have?


Was that a sentence?

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Sadly, no. And I've experience the same thing, myself, with my posts.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

close enough. I'm not so much disappointed in less readers in Buffy as I am that I have THAT many readers in FMA that don't bother to comment...or maybe it's a good thing. I've always wondered why not take three seconds to say 'good story' if nothing else. Even with the hundreds of hits in Buffydom I still get about a 1% return on comments.

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

I have lots of readers of TD. They never say anything, but I like that they're there.

OK, I do wish they'd say something just so my comment count doesn't look so pathetic!

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

same here. I almost never ever look at my stats since I could give I rip. I ended up in them accidentally trying to remove some anonymous troll's worthless homophobic blathering on one of my stories and saw that and said 'huh, how curious

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Oh, I write fan fic for the attention. I'm whorish that way.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

hee. I'm completely uninterested in the stats. However I DO like comments. Seriously, a 'nice story' would make me happy. Lately i've put up stuff wiht zero feedback. Yes I write for myself and I would have written the story anyhow but it would be nice for someone to notice it

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Oh, I write for myself, too, it's fun, but if I just stored TD on my hard drive afterwards, I'd probably stop writing that and write something else instead.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

same here

[atlantian-magic.livejournal.com]

Its all about appreciation and you also have to take into account the age group. Those who read Buffy/Angel are a sort of older croud and will make sure someone knows when what they've read is exceptional.

On the other hand, FMA readers come in all ages and the younger readers will read the smut because they think they're older and then not say anything, just simply hop on the next fic with rabid fangirl intensity simply because their favorite character(s) is/are there. Wow, what a run-on sentence...

Anywho, I think that's the point I wanted to make. Otherwise I may have lost my train of thought somewhere along the way. XD

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I had given that a lot of consideration and I pretty much came to the same conclusion. Then again on FFN (where I'm looking at the stats) there is no smut so I'm not sure what's at play there. Then again I think the somewhat older Buffy crowd does play a role in at least giving responses.

[makd.livejournal.com]

Joyce (along with Dickens and Faulkner) is over-rated and Hemingway is way too testosteroney.

(Don't you love how I reduce the greatest writers of the last 150 years? I'm nothing if not shallow.....)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

trust me I agree on all accounts. I realy do