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paulamcgYesterday I submitted my second fic to the AO3 collection of Remus Lupin Fest, after I’d submitted the first one eight days earlier. And on Sunday, a day before the deadline, I submitted my Salt and Pepper Fest fic to ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
hp_goldenage. Once again – no, thrice again – I’ve enjoyed liseuse’s wonderful beta services. Two of these stories I’d started in late December.
Now suddenly I don’t know what to write. I’ve got no fic started and no fests even planned. I’m considering some three-sentence-challenge prompts, and I guess I should just write – anything.
On the last few days I’ve been posting fifteen-year-old and ten-year-old stories on AO3, since I’ve finally got everything I wrote in 2019 posted. I post the pre-hiatus work (which has all been on my Livejournal all the time) in the order that the events take place in my Marauders’ lives.
I’m surprised at how short those early stories are. Only now do I realise how much more fluently I’ve learnt to write – or how much I’ve learnt to babble. Well, I used to babble in the chaptered fic I completed just before the hiatus.
I also can’t help paying attention to how much more hits those stories get which are tagged for a pairing – like seven or ten times more than gen fic. I’ve realised before that a fic tagged both as Remus/Sirius and James/Lily gets more hits than others, which is natural, but nothing by me gets very many hits, and the hit count hardly matters much.
In any case I’m happy about any kudos and an occasional comment. Still, kudos is often from people who have no works or bookmarks, or who have some of that only in other fandoms. I wonder if that kind of readers are the majority also for those writers who get more kudos and comments, or if there’s something unusually strange about my fic to attract those readers.
hp_goldenage. Once again – no, thrice again – I’ve enjoyed liseuse’s wonderful beta services. Two of these stories I’d started in late December.Now suddenly I don’t know what to write. I’ve got no fic started and no fests even planned. I’m considering some three-sentence-challenge prompts, and I guess I should just write – anything.
On the last few days I’ve been posting fifteen-year-old and ten-year-old stories on AO3, since I’ve finally got everything I wrote in 2019 posted. I post the pre-hiatus work (which has all been on my Livejournal all the time) in the order that the events take place in my Marauders’ lives.
I’m surprised at how short those early stories are. Only now do I realise how much more fluently I’ve learnt to write – or how much I’ve learnt to babble. Well, I used to babble in the chaptered fic I completed just before the hiatus.
I also can’t help paying attention to how much more hits those stories get which are tagged for a pairing – like seven or ten times more than gen fic. I’ve realised before that a fic tagged both as Remus/Sirius and James/Lily gets more hits than others, which is natural, but nothing by me gets very many hits, and the hit count hardly matters much.
In any case I’m happy about any kudos and an occasional comment. Still, kudos is often from people who have no works or bookmarks, or who have some of that only in other fandoms. I wonder if that kind of readers are the majority also for those writers who get more kudos and comments, or if there’s something unusually strange about my fic to attract those readers.
