John Sheppard and Elizabeth Weir were conversing in my head last night.
This is really bad.
Oh no it's good. You will have fun in this fandom, I know you will.
When I have (Pretender, NCIS, Judging Amy), the stories have always gone down like a lead balloon. That should tell me something.
Truthfully Kat, not *every* West Wing story you've written has been a cracker either. Have you ever considered it's not the fandom, but the number of times you've tried that produces success?
I would really rather all the voices just shut up and went away. WW is just about mute and I'm removing its presence and I wanted that to be the end of it.
Well we could argue that your successes (without defining what success is - but shall we say highest response?) are somewhat random. If you are unaware of what produces a high response in your audience (and who is?) then sheer quantity will produce the most high response stories. So let's says your ratio is one in four (for argument's sake. Surely it can't be lower than one in four) there's a 75% possibility of you scoring a hit on your first try. Not unbeatable odds.
Naturaly, we're talking about a lot of variables which would suggest a mathematical approach is inappropriate but sometimes when you have a lot of variables it becomes just as unpredictable as having no variables. So, sheer numbers produces highest response rate. Pure probability.
Second theory: some of the variables in your case are arguably conclusive, such as the fact that you are well known in West Wing fandom even if you don't write the same pairing all the time. The fact that you had been in the fandom a while and may have been
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I did tape the Oscars, and I don't remember taping over them. I'll go through my unlabeled videos sometime this week and see whether they're on one of them. I might, however, have taped Cannes Film Festival stuff over them. In which case you're out of luck.
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This is really bad.
Oh no it's good. You will have fun in this fandom, I know you will.
When I have (Pretender, NCIS, Judging Amy), the stories have always gone down like a lead balloon. That should tell me something.
Truthfully Kat, not *every* West Wing story you've written has been a cracker either. Have you ever considered it's not the fandom, but the number of times you've tried that produces success?
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Well we could argue that your successes (without defining what success is - but shall we say highest response?) are somewhat random. If you are unaware of what produces a high response in your audience (and who is?) then sheer quantity will produce the most high response stories. So let's says your ratio is one in four (for argument's sake. Surely it can't be lower than one in four) there's a 75% possibility of you scoring a hit on your first try. Not unbeatable odds.
Naturaly, we're talking about a lot of variables which would suggest a mathematical approach is inappropriate but sometimes when you have a lot of variables it becomes just as unpredictable as having no variables. So, sheer numbers produces highest response rate. Pure probability.
Second theory: some of the variables in your case are arguably conclusive, such as the fact that you are well known in West Wing fandom even if you don't write the same pairing all the time. The fact that you had been in the fandom a while and may have been ( ... )
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*pokes again*
*holds ransom her Pretender DVDs until she writes it*
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Wasn't juicy in any way :(
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