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alexisjaneOh god. Inbox at 395. I feel like my brain is going to fall out...but at least it's going down! : ) I'm not gonna make 0 tonight but I shall persevere!
So, it's taken 5 days for the latest part of my Were fic to get the same amount of kudos on AO3 as my BigBang has received in six months.
I am totally selfish when it comes to writing. I do it for myself and because I enjoy it and if people want to read it that's fine, so I don't worry about hits and stuff (esp. when there are fics with 356k hits out there, coz I'm never going to compete with that!), but it is interesting to me what people read and why.
I hope I've improved as a writer in six months but I'm sure I haven't that much. I have promoted the Were 'verse a bit more but does it make that much difference? Do people really wanna read domestic knotting 'verse more than romantic drama?
Part of me feels a bit gutted that something I worked so long and so hard on, gets less love than something I'm just writing for kicks...but then I guess I do actually love them both equally...and in the end that kinda thing really shouldn't matter. Plus I've received some wonderful comments about my BB so I can never be unhappy with the reception of, what is to all intents and purposes, my first novel.
Sometimes I wish I could see each person reading my stuff, see which bits they laughed at or hated or where they decided to quit...It would be harrowing but so, so interesting.
But then the temptation to write to a formula would probably sneak in, and writing to please other people...I'm just not ready for that yet.
It is kinda nice to get the love though : ) x
So, it's taken 5 days for the latest part of my Were fic to get the same amount of kudos on AO3 as my BigBang has received in six months.
I am totally selfish when it comes to writing. I do it for myself and because I enjoy it and if people want to read it that's fine, so I don't worry about hits and stuff (esp. when there are fics with 356k hits out there, coz I'm never going to compete with that!), but it is interesting to me what people read and why.
I hope I've improved as a writer in six months but I'm sure I haven't that much. I have promoted the Were 'verse a bit more but does it make that much difference? Do people really wanna read domestic knotting 'verse more than romantic drama?
Part of me feels a bit gutted that something I worked so long and so hard on, gets less love than something I'm just writing for kicks...but then I guess I do actually love them both equally...and in the end that kinda thing really shouldn't matter. Plus I've received some wonderful comments about my BB so I can never be unhappy with the reception of, what is to all intents and purposes, my first novel.
Sometimes I wish I could see each person reading my stuff, see which bits they laughed at or hated or where they decided to quit...It would be harrowing but so, so interesting.
But then the temptation to write to a formula would probably sneak in, and writing to please other people...I'm just not ready for that yet.
It is kinda nice to get the love though : ) x
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Date: 2015-01-12 01:46 am (UTC)As far as the knotting versus romance goes....my fics on AO3 with the most hits and kudos are Acoustics. You have to go a long freakin' way down to get to something that's not violent and ultra kinky and even further to get to anything gen. What I consider some of the best things I've written have the least amount of hits and kudos. So, it's all in the eye of the beholder. People read what they read.
The kudos system too....I love comments. They are wonderful for letting you know what the people who are kind enough to leave them liked about the story. Or, in some cases, didn't like. But I can get behind the kudos because every day I get some on stories that are years old and if anyone is still reading them on LJ and liking them, they're not letting me know. Which is okay. There's no law that says you have to comment on anything. But still. Kudos on something posted four years ago really makes my day.