Now I can’t resist this chance to mention the hurt I felt fifteen years ago and haven’t been able to erase from my memory. Someone whose stories I’d admired and whom I finally got to read one by me did not point out errors in grammar, which I’d have been happy to correct, but advised me never to write first-person narrative and to stop writing about Remus as poor. Needless to say, I didn’t follow the advice. I cried and went on, developing my first-person style and the way of showing Remus’s poverty less blantantly.
Even though most of my comments on AO3 are somehow detailed, I don’t include concrit. When I feel the story is well-written and the writer has shown some interest in conversation, I can send a private message mentioning an error – like typo – I’ve spotted.
I noticed a big difference in a particular fest which I’d participated on Livejournal in the good old days. R/S Small Gifts had always been a heartwarming experience: I’d felt I received several gifts, not only the fic or art based on my prompt but comments on my fic (even though it was without sex) from… perhaps half of the participants. Now the fest is on DW and AO3, posts the fics on both. Last December I went overboard and in addition to my assignment I wrote three extra gifts. Two of the giftees didn’t respond even with kudos. One commented on DW, one on AO3, and the mods commented on two of the stories if I remember correctly. Otherwise my fic went unnoticed, even though I commented on a lot of works, and on everyone’s introduction in the advent of the fest. Oh, I’ve just checked and seen that my assignment fic received six comments on DW, so I must be satisfied. It seems I easily remember the disappointments most clearly.
My point is that perhaps we shouldn’t take the lack of feedback from even the giftee personally. It could be that now that the fandom is spread on several platforms – even within one fest – people might not follow or return to check out their gift.
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Date: 2020-04-11 12:28 pm (UTC)Even though most of my comments on AO3 are somehow detailed, I don’t include concrit. When I feel the story is well-written and the writer has shown some interest in conversation, I can send a private message mentioning an error – like typo – I’ve spotted.
I noticed a big difference in a particular fest which I’d participated on Livejournal in the good old days. R/S Small Gifts had always been a heartwarming experience: I’d felt I received several gifts, not only the fic or art based on my prompt but comments on my fic (even though it was without sex) from… perhaps half of the participants. Now the fest is on DW and AO3, posts the fics on both. Last December I went overboard and in addition to my assignment I wrote three extra gifts. Two of the giftees didn’t respond even with kudos. One commented on DW, one on AO3, and the mods commented on two of the stories if I remember correctly. Otherwise my fic went unnoticed, even though I commented on a lot of works, and on everyone’s introduction in the advent of the fest. Oh, I’ve just checked and seen that my assignment fic received six comments on DW, so I must be satisfied. It seems I easily remember the disappointments most clearly.
My point is that perhaps we shouldn’t take the lack of feedback from even the giftee personally. It could be that now that the fandom is spread on several platforms – even within one fest – people might not follow or return to check out their gift.