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Post by JuPMod on Feb 19, 2006 20:51:28 GMT -5
you have to listen to the reviews in any case, but don't change yourself for the reviews. Your voice as an author cannot be dependent on satisifying the ones who actually LEAVE a review, or you'll be drifting with the tide and whoever slams a review into your box quickly enough to change your mind. This is what I believe in this as well. In my Author Notes of one story I said that I accept suggestions and advice, but as the author, I make the final decisions whether I will take any of these suggestions and advice in mind. I certainly know I will not ever satisfy everyone. That's impossible. I write for myself, and if anyone enjoys the stories I write, that's good. If anyone don't like them, I don't care, for as you said, Aers, I'm not making any money off my fics anyway as a person writing KP fics for a hobby.  |
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Post by Ezbok58a on Feb 19, 2006 23:43:02 GMT -5
As a fanfic writer, I have to say the reviews kind of make my day. As Surfrost said, it's a great feeling to have people who not only like your work, but also give you suggestions. One story I'm working on now I have recieved over 100 reviews, and I'm not even close to it's halfway point, but thats not what made my day. What made my day was that the reviews actually pointed out little things I missed and some problems with the flow of the story. Until that story I've basically been recieving either blind praise or people who like the story but ask some questions that would give away the story. Now I actually am getting feedback that I could use to make the story better, and I love it!
I do this for fun, like most everyone else who writes it. But I like to know that some people out there actually can help make a story of mine better by telling me whats wrong with the latest chapter. I don't go off the reviews soley, I also go off of hits and favs, as well as alerts, the one story of mine that's on hiatus is actually doing very good as far as hits, favs and alerts go, but lacks in reviews. Does that stop me from continuing the story? Actually yes, but only for another week or so till another of my stories is completed, then I jump right back into the thick of it.
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Post by Commander Argus on Feb 20, 2006 0:13:39 GMT -5
One little gripe about WIPs. When I first got to FF.net, "Not Quite Heroes" was...not quite finished. It was a long time before that last chapter was posted, to the point I had to go back and read the whole dang thing again.
UNION was two chappies shy of finished - that like to drove me nuts!
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Post by JuPMod on Feb 20, 2006 8:58:32 GMT -5
^ Well, knowing G-Go, I knew he would finish the story nevertheless, so I was one who wasn't worry the story wouldn't be finished. I pretty much have patience if I know the author is going to finish the story. It's just those authors who spend *months* between chapters that drive me up the walls. They go like half a year without posting a new chapter only to post a small tiny snippet and then again disappear. Like hellooooo! Can't you just finish the story and be done with it?  |
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Post by zaratan on Feb 20, 2006 10:56:00 GMT -5
Oh man, I go nuts when I go a few days without updating. I mean, I have the last few pages of Recovery to finish up for the next update, and this writer's block right now is driving me nuts. Leaving a story for months at a time... there'd be almost no point in writing for me if I did that.
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Post by Nightspade on Feb 20, 2006 11:03:24 GMT -5
I used to post WIPs... then I learned of my inability to finish anything I start to write...
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Post by surforst on Feb 20, 2006 13:46:09 GMT -5
It's just those authors who spend *months* between chapters that drive me up the walls. They go like half a year without posting a new chapter only to post a small tiny snippet and then again disappear. Like hellooooo! Can't you just finish the story and be done with it? I admit I've been guilty of this a lot. My gundam story had a month between updates and its been months since on of my project went on delay. In my defense though I update with other stuff so I do provide readers with something. Just too much to work on and too little time. I guess that's my problem. |
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Post by Scoutcraft Piratess on Feb 20, 2006 14:06:52 GMT -5
I prefer works-in-progress. I like anticipation, and I feel I can give better criticism as a story progresses.
Sometimes I'm just put-off by the length of a finished work. I have a busy life and little time to sit down and read something for hours on end.
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Post by Quin Separable on Feb 20, 2006 22:12:58 GMT -5
It's just those authors who spend *months* between chapters that drive me up the walls. They go like half a year without posting a new chapter only to post a small tiny snippet and then again disappear. Like hellooooo! Can't you just finish the story and be done with it? I'm really guilty of that. I never mean to be but it's just that other things get me away from writing. That's why from now on I'm writing the whole story before it's posted. I truely feel bad when I don't update often! |
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Post by allaine on Feb 21, 2006 11:57:41 GMT -5
and, just as a fyi - there was a HUGE crossover story many, many years ago called "Witness" that ran over 120 chapters, IIRC... involved everyone from "Highlander" to "X-Files" to "Forever Knight" and then some. extra points to those old enough to remember said shows.  Just because I think I know what you're talking about, did this story also involve Sam Beckett "quantum leaping" into Det. Knight's partner? And both the CSM and Macgyver's archnemesis turned out to be Immortals? I write WIP's all the time, because I'm someone who writes 100-200 page stories, and I can't write THAT long without needing feedback. I'm an impatient person. ;D So I'd be quite the hypocrite if I couldn't read WIPs too. That being said, people who start good stories and never finish them, they infuriate me. (And hey, I've done that too, so I guess I'm a hypocrite after all *sighs*) Sincerely, Allaine |
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Post by Aers (That Writer Chick) on Feb 21, 2006 12:17:37 GMT -5
and, just as a fyi - there was a HUGE crossover story many, many years ago called "Witness" that ran over 120 chapters, IIRC... involved everyone from "Highlander" to "X-Files" to "Forever Knight" and then some. extra points to those old enough to remember said shows. Just because I think I know what you're talking about, did this story also involve Sam Beckett "quantum leaping" into Det. Knight's partner? And both the CSM and Macgyver's archnemesis turned out to be Immortals? OMG... I think that's the one. it was addictive at the same time you screamed in horror as you read it, with usually one paragraph per person per three-five chapters; there were so many involved...  |
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Post by allaine on Feb 21, 2006 14:15:07 GMT -5
;D
Man, I read that in college, using a handy little browser called Netscape 1.0, so that must have been 5+ years ago. I'd never watched Macgyver at the time, so the significance of whassisname - Magruder? - was lost on me until later. I do remember reading and thinking, "Wait, they made Starman into a TV show?"
Sincerely, Allaine
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Post by Aers (That Writer Chick) on Feb 21, 2006 14:38:09 GMT -5
see, now you're making me feel old.  I graduated college in 1984... *creaking noise as she wanders away* |
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Post by campy on Feb 21, 2006 14:50:34 GMT -5
see, now you're making me feel old. I graduated college in 1984... *creaking noise as she wanders away* Wanna feel young again? It's 1976 for me. |
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Post by zaratan on Feb 21, 2006 14:52:42 GMT -5
see, now you're making me feel old. I graduated college in 1984... *creaking noise as she wanders away* Wanna feel young again? It's 1976 for me. Wow... I wasn't even born then... *feeling very young all of a sudden* |
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Post by Pim Peccable on Feb 21, 2006 21:09:26 GMT -5
High school: '84
College: WIP (I think I'll finish - maybe)
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Post by cloudmonet on Feb 23, 2006 21:06:15 GMT -5
1971!
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Post by Commander Argus on Feb 23, 2006 21:08:25 GMT -5
Great, now I feel young again.
Still need some of that "Just for men" beard and mustache color though
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Post by Aers (That Writer Chick) on Feb 23, 2006 21:40:33 GMT -5
nah... women love the grey. well, I do. |
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Post by Commander Argus on Feb 23, 2006 22:09:48 GMT -5
It's fine if it's even. I had to shave the sides off because they were so light and there's a freaky off-center streak in my "magic chin grass"
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