Er, Six Things Make a Post?
Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a lovely holiday. I still have individual thank yous to send out, and my apologies for that.
1. I've mentioned this in various venues, but essentially, I'm sick. I've been sick ever since I got off the damn plane on the way home, because there's no better way to catch something than by spending 13+ hours on a ( Read more... )
1. I've mentioned this in various venues, but essentially, I'm sick. I've been sick ever since I got off the damn plane on the way home, because there's no better way to catch something than by spending 13+ hours on a ( Read more... )
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As to feedback, I gave up thinking about that some time ago. The VigBean fandom is definitely in overall decline (I don't know about any others) and people who do enjoy reading, if not writing, often don't leave feedback for a whole host of reasons. I write for my own pleasure in the main - but really appreciate the comments that the very small filtered group on my f-list leave.
Hope you feel better soon - and yes, hang on to that half way point!
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Eh, I try not to think about it, because it is a feature of an aging fandom, but when I look around and see other people getting the levels of fb I used to get, or still getting new commenters, it's more than a bit disheartening, as if I'm simply not writing what anyone wants to read anymore. If that's the case, then maybe I'm better off writing for myself and showing one or two close friends who I know are still enthusiastic, because yeah, as much as I write for myself, I post to share and hear from others.
Thanks! I could really do with shaking this illness ASAP! And hooray for the halfway point. I cannot, cannot wait.
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Does it help for me to say I love you, and I LOVE your writings, and I WANT MORE of your writings. Golly. I know I'm just one old biddy, but I can't abide these new fandoms. (Can't get into the blokes - they're all wimpys. My men gotta be MATURE!!! mmmmmmmm!) So as Vigbean gets older and more wrinkly, so do us faithfuls.
And did we finish with that disaster in NZ? THAT was absolutely brilliant - and I think we still didn't hear if Miranda had her dinner out!
Oh PLEASE don't be discouraged... you'll always be read by me, and Flair and Heath and a lot of us - er - oh hell, Ladies in Lavender, who drool their way through your postings.
Would you, could you, do a savageseraph and do a post or repost every day? I am doing a drabble a day (er, can't stop, its addictive and probably boring for a lot of viewers, so what! some finds it fun!) and I would love ( ... )
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No, Words/Silence/Flesh is far from over. I simply forgot to post the next part when I first became ill, and haven't had the impetus to post since then.
With my dissertation to do, all the travelling that comes with that, the other obligations in my life, and the fact that when I do write, I like to make sure it's fully edited, beta'd, and as clean and coherent as I can make it, I honestly don't have the time right now to do something even as small as a drabble a day. (Besides, I find drabbles take me just as long as a larger piece, because I'm playing with form alongside content.)
Thanks. As I said, I'm still at home, so if I wanted to get any sun, I'd have to get bundled up first and go out in the snow. ^_~
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It's hard to want to post things when people don't seem to be reading, and it seems to be even more difficult to get people to read and comment on the RPS stuff than the FPS. I'm trying to tolerate that just because the people who are reading are so warm and enthusiastic about it... and maybe because I wasn't here in the days when the fandom was at its peak, so this is the way I've always known it to be. I love your writing and I am always happy to see something from you...
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It's odd that you mention the FPS/RPS divide. I've always found my fb count on FPS lower than my RPS. Huh. But yeah, that's the thing. It's tough to find motivation to post the less it feels like anyone's reading. I think going from being around at the peak to now is part of the problem. Even though I was never getting giant levels of fb then, I appear to be losing even my regular readers, which is a major blow to the ego. Thanks so much for the vote of confidence, though. That's really lovely and sweet of you. ♥
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Yeah, I know that intellectually. And the weird thing is it's not like I've stopped writing, just that I've almost completely lost any enthusiasm in posting. And the AO3 is even worse. I keep meaning to upload more of my stuff there, but it's crickets, so there's no impetus to, you know?
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*Hugs and smooches*
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