To all my 10's of readers
To all the tens of readers out there who read my stories and comment: I love you.
To all the tens of readers out there who read my stories and don't comment for whatever reason: I love you too.
To zelda_zee, my patient and speedy beta: much love to you too your help, and for putting up with my rambling, nonsensical emails that rival my story chapters in length.
I know how fandom works. Supernatural isn't my first fandom, and it probably won't be my last. I know that fandoms are cliquey, fickle, and in a fandom this huge, it's easy to get overlooked. I also know that it is, like everything else in life, an 80/20 split: BNF's get 80% of all the feedback out there and everyone else in fandom gets to divide up the last 20%. And hey, I don't begrudge BNFs for their lion's share: some of them are very talented writers and certainly deserve it.
But what that means is that I am totally f'ing thrilled by any and all comments I receive. Seriously. From the shortest "OMG" or <3 (although truthfully, I haven't gotten any that short yet) to the longest comment discussing how the reader feels and what lines they loved and whatever--I love it all. Maybe not equally, but everything thrills me. I embrace words, smiley face emoticons, l33t speak, languages which are not in English, constructive criticism, and even unconstructive criticism. Frankly, if one of my stories disappointed/infuriated/annoyed someone so much that they felt the burning need to tell me so, hell, that's better than languishing in mediocre obscurity.
I've only been hanging around SPN fandom for less than a year--basically since Castiel busted onto the scene in season 4. I didn't actually start writing anything till June and that was like, a het AU. The fact that anyone at all is reading my Welcome to Oz WIP, much less commenting consistently (which I love, btw) is shocking to me. I have no fandom name or track record. I'm writing a wackyass domestic intrigue mystery thriller with Dean and Castiel at the center of a suburb. By all rights, my story should be dead in the water surrounded by radio silence. But it's not, so yay!
Bottom line: I am open to all comments and am just so freaking happy whenever anyone posts them. Also, my friending policy for this lj is open: you friend me, I friend you back. Mostly this is a fic posting journal with intermittent posts discussing my writing (because man, do I love to navel gaze and writing is how I do it) so I probably won't clutter your flist up too much.
To all the tens of readers out there who read my stories and don't comment for whatever reason: I love you too.
To zelda_zee, my patient and speedy beta: much love to you too your help, and for putting up with my rambling, nonsensical emails that rival my story chapters in length.
I know how fandom works. Supernatural isn't my first fandom, and it probably won't be my last. I know that fandoms are cliquey, fickle, and in a fandom this huge, it's easy to get overlooked. I also know that it is, like everything else in life, an 80/20 split: BNF's get 80% of all the feedback out there and everyone else in fandom gets to divide up the last 20%. And hey, I don't begrudge BNFs for their lion's share: some of them are very talented writers and certainly deserve it.
But what that means is that I am totally f'ing thrilled by any and all comments I receive. Seriously. From the shortest "OMG" or <3 (although truthfully, I haven't gotten any that short yet) to the longest comment discussing how the reader feels and what lines they loved and whatever--I love it all. Maybe not equally, but everything thrills me. I embrace words, smiley face emoticons, l33t speak, languages which are not in English, constructive criticism, and even unconstructive criticism. Frankly, if one of my stories disappointed/infuriated/annoyed someone so much that they felt the burning need to tell me so, hell, that's better than languishing in mediocre obscurity.
I've only been hanging around SPN fandom for less than a year--basically since Castiel busted onto the scene in season 4. I didn't actually start writing anything till June and that was like, a het AU. The fact that anyone at all is reading my Welcome to Oz WIP, much less commenting consistently (which I love, btw) is shocking to me. I have no fandom name or track record. I'm writing a wackyass domestic intrigue mystery thriller with Dean and Castiel at the center of a suburb. By all rights, my story should be dead in the water surrounded by radio silence. But it's not, so yay!
Bottom line: I am open to all comments and am just so freaking happy whenever anyone posts them. Also, my friending policy for this lj is open: you friend me, I friend you back. Mostly this is a fic posting journal with intermittent posts discussing my writing (because man, do I love to navel gaze and writing is how I do it) so I probably won't clutter your flist up too much.