Farewell, WIAD ...
So, writerinadrawer this week, and I was voted out. I still haven't received my feedback, so I'm not really sure what the thoughts were on my piece. Apparently everyone got both some positive and negative feedback, so I guess not everyone hated it. Technically speaking, I came in fifth place in the entire challenge. Considering we had 50 writers and 2 spares when we started, I think that's pretty good.
I don't feel as upset over being voted out as I thought I would. I suppose I was just figuring on the tall grass this week, despite how few stories there were to vote on. I was hoping to make it to the last challenge ... I didn't think my story was that remarkable, but I wasn't sure it was worth voting out, either. Of course, as exfatalist noted in some words of attempted comfort, a lot of something like this is purely dependent on what people feel like reading on a given week.
And, admittedly, I did write my story at four in the morning before having to head off to work on Friday, so I guess it wasn't as good as it could have been. The fact that I've been doing that for the last several challenges tells me it was probably time for me to give it up, anyway. Now I can stop using the challenge as an excuse to put off writing other things.
Ultimately, I think I can quote Tosh on this - I hope I did good. In fact, I know I did. I won three out of twelve weeks, got positive votes on several others, I challenged my own writing ability, learned to work with the constraints of word counts, added elements, etc., and given that I was one of the only authors who started out with no fandom cred and no sort of following, just being a roleplayer who decided to wander out and write some fanfic, that's pretty fantastic. And I made writerinadrawer history one week, which is nothing to scoff at!
ETA: Okay, I just got my feedback from Waldo. I guess I can see the points some people made, but some of them feel a little contrived, a little more, "I've just decided to vote you out, so ... uh, here's one line of feedback as my reason why."
No offense if anyone who voted me out wanders through and reads this. I understand, everything's not going to resonate with everyone, and I guess some parts of it were a little confusing. Oh well. C'est la vie. I decided a long time ago that when I got voted out, I wasn't going to be bitter about it, and I'm taking this as a learning experience, getting honest feedback when people so rarely give it. I'm not going to turn my back on this fandom by any means!
Time to get cracking on something new.