So About that SPN Big Bang

[lovesrain44]

So about that Big Bang for SPN this year. Every year I ask myself the same question, and that is, what do I have to say about the Big Bangs? Every year I contemplate giving feedback, and every year I don't. That's because sometimes, feedback isn't welcomed. Sometimes the writer just wants to write a really big, whopping story and be done with it.

Comments

[spankedbyspike]

Great idea

[lovesrain44]

Hey thanks, it sounds like you have the same deal going on that I do - there's plenty to read, but not enough time to think about each story. My attempt with these reviews is to make myself slow down, and figure out why each story did or didn't work for me. And always with the understanding that one reader's joy is another's junk - it's all about how the story affects the reader.

And hopefully, I can make sense of what I'm reading and incorporate what I've read and thought about into my own writing. Otherwise it all goes by so fast.

If you need rec's here's the best list ever.

http://amothea.livejournal.com/

She's got Supernatural, Stargate Atlantis, and Merlin. Enjoy!

[spankedbyspike]

Thank you very much. As soon as have a chance I'll start to look at the recs but also to try to find a system that can be used for all fics I read. This way, my comments would be in a comparable format that can showcase particularities while keeping in mind the context of each story. That is not as easy as it seems (cause that assumes I can anticipate what I will be reading, I need to do things maybe like a lit class would do it.

How about you, will you follow some form of format or have a free falling approach to comment on your reading?

[lovesrain44]

Well, there's a couple of ways

[amothea]

My only piece of advice and I wish I'd done this when I started but if you're going to add other author's names and warnings and stuff, it would not hurt to pick a generic tag for them so you'd have author:amothea or warnings:non-con

I say this now because if you don't start at the beginning it's a real bitch to go back and retag stuff and it'll be that much harder to create bundles. Right now you only have a few bookmarks but once you have thousands it'll really help to have a system for being able to find authors out of a cloud. Using Authors: will sort all authors into the A section of the delicious cloud.

Um hope that made sense but really it's worth looking into.