and i do feel sour that i don't get more than 15 reviews, ever, and this badly-spelled silly-fic gets 879 on ff.net-- but i understand. people want a certain type of fic, and i don't write it, and -they- do.
i know what you mean but i do resent the writers, though i shouldn't. still i can't help it. on a good day i get, like, five reviews. seriously. and that is rare. and maybe it's because my writing is crap (i don't know, since no one bothers to tell me) but every fandom i've been in is rather obsessive about sex. a smut fic will get recs and reviews, tons of fans for it. always. it's much easier for a person writing smut to break in to a fandom and it's been that way since back when i was fifteen and writing velvet goldmine fics. i was friends with a writer who wrote beautiful, in-character, atmospheric stories that got barely any feedback. whereas there was a guy who would write smutty, horrifically written stories and get loads of replies. for the most part, people want simplicity and clarity and sex.
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Date: 2003-07-28 07:48 am (UTC)and i do feel sour that i don't get more than 15 reviews, ever, and this badly-spelled silly-fic gets 879 on ff.net-- but i understand. people want a certain type of fic, and i don't write it, and -they- do.
i know what you mean but i do resent the writers, though i shouldn't. still i can't help it. on a good day i get, like, five reviews. seriously. and that is rare. and maybe it's because my writing is crap (i don't know, since no one bothers to tell me) but every fandom i've been in is rather obsessive about sex. a smut fic will get recs and reviews, tons of fans for it. always. it's much easier for a person writing smut to break in to a fandom and it's been that way since back when i was fifteen and writing velvet goldmine fics. i was friends with a writer who wrote beautiful, in-character, atmospheric stories that got barely any feedback. whereas there was a guy who would write smutty, horrifically written stories and get loads of replies. for the most part, people want simplicity and clarity and sex.