TO ALL FANFICTION AUTHORS AND READERS
Is it just me, or does it seem that when people beseech and BEG me on their hands and knees to update a story on ff.net, I do what they ask out of the goodness of my heart because unlike popular belief, I, like all authors, HAVE A LIFE SO I CANNOT SPEND EVERY MINUTE OF EVERY DAY WRITING UP FANFICTION MOST PEOPLE WOULD NEVER GIVE A SECOND GLANCE.
BUT! Once I do what a reader asks and updates a story they liked (or so it seemed) NO ONE LETS ME KNOW THAT THEY READ IT, ENJOYED IT, HATED IT, OR EVEN SO MUCH GAVE IT A SINGLE THOUGHT.
'Cause y'know, for a novelist-in-the-making, FEEDBACK IS MORE VALUABLE THAN GOLD.
And I know it's fanfiction, readers prolly care more about the fandom than the literature, but it IS literature. Look beyond the fandom, and tell me about my WRITING. About my literacy, vocabulary, characterizations, plot elements, execution, and all things of such nature.
'Cause I noticed long ago that fanfiction of a well-loved fandom attracts more readers than original fiction does, and believe me, I know. My friends at school would rather watch people PLAY GAMES than to read my original stuff, so therefore I turned to fanfiction to gain me a base of readers who would give me FEEDBACK about my WRITING ABILITY.
Because my English teachers would just baby me or humor me because I'm their student, unless they're in a really foul mood.
I mean, really, getting marked with good English grades does not make a novelist. I've been on this project for the last three years now, and I'm well into writing the damned thing, I just need to finalize everything so far as the plot goes, finish outlining the general goings-on and see to the little extra details of the world within the reality of the novel's making.
So, please, fanfic readers, if you sincerely and truly like or love a person's fanfics or even hate it, at least let the author know why you feel like you do and what it is about the literature that makes you feel that way. And if you asked (or begged, or peevishly demanded) for someone to update a fiction and they took time out of their personal lives to write it for YOU, a person they know not outside of the cyber world, for literacy's sake LET THEM BLOODY WELL KNOW WHEN THEY DO UPDATE IT. It doesn't matter how long it takes the author to update--because the bottom line is that they DID.
Thank you.
BUT! Once I do what a reader asks and updates a story they liked (or so it seemed) NO ONE LETS ME KNOW THAT THEY READ IT, ENJOYED IT, HATED IT, OR EVEN SO MUCH GAVE IT A SINGLE THOUGHT.
'Cause y'know, for a novelist-in-the-making, FEEDBACK IS MORE VALUABLE THAN GOLD.
And I know it's fanfiction, readers prolly care more about the fandom than the literature, but it IS literature. Look beyond the fandom, and tell me about my WRITING. About my literacy, vocabulary, characterizations, plot elements, execution, and all things of such nature.
'Cause I noticed long ago that fanfiction of a well-loved fandom attracts more readers than original fiction does, and believe me, I know. My friends at school would rather watch people PLAY GAMES than to read my original stuff, so therefore I turned to fanfiction to gain me a base of readers who would give me FEEDBACK about my WRITING ABILITY.
Because my English teachers would just baby me or humor me because I'm their student, unless they're in a really foul mood.
I mean, really, getting marked with good English grades does not make a novelist. I've been on this project for the last three years now, and I'm well into writing the damned thing, I just need to finalize everything so far as the plot goes, finish outlining the general goings-on and see to the little extra details of the world within the reality of the novel's making.
So, please, fanfic readers, if you sincerely and truly like or love a person's fanfics or even hate it, at least let the author know why you feel like you do and what it is about the literature that makes you feel that way. And if you asked (or begged, or peevishly demanded) for someone to update a fiction and they took time out of their personal lives to write it for YOU, a person they know not outside of the cyber world, for literacy's sake LET THEM BLOODY WELL KNOW WHEN THEY DO UPDATE IT. It doesn't matter how long it takes the author to update--because the bottom line is that they DID.
Thank you.