Fandom karma
-This totally made my day! Someone mentioned a fic I wrote on fandom secrets: here, post 164. I figure I can post that here, since I don't know who did the secret. But thanks to ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
scabbyfish for directing me to it.
-Now, that makes me want to write more porn. Luckily, I just wrote 16 pages of porn in MS Word. Why so long, you ask? Because it's Victorian porn. Victorians take forever to get their clothes off.
-To add to all this encouragement, I keep getting really nice comments to random fic. Different fic, and the comments are from different people. So . . . thanks, random fandom brownies!
-But speaking of feedback and encouragement . . . the secret spot is delicious. Does anyone else check there for feedback to their fic? You bookmark it, then see who else bookmarked it, and look at what they say. You read some really nice things that people say about your stuff, even if they didn't comment on your fic. You also get to read some negative comments you'd otherwise never see. Most people are using delicious for themselves, you know? So they don't bother with being nice. Which is kinda nice. I don't solicit con crit any more because no one ever gave it to me with the exception of an awesome few, but I still like to see it from time to time.
scabbyfish for directing me to it.-Now, that makes me want to write more porn. Luckily, I just wrote 16 pages of porn in MS Word. Why so long, you ask? Because it's Victorian porn. Victorians take forever to get their clothes off.
-To add to all this encouragement, I keep getting really nice comments to random fic. Different fic, and the comments are from different people. So . . . thanks, random fandom brownies!
-But speaking of feedback and encouragement . . . the secret spot is delicious. Does anyone else check there for feedback to their fic? You bookmark it, then see who else bookmarked it, and look at what they say. You read some really nice things that people say about your stuff, even if they didn't comment on your fic. You also get to read some negative comments you'd otherwise never see. Most people are using delicious for themselves, you know? So they don't bother with being nice. Which is kinda nice. I don't solicit con crit any more because no one ever gave it to me with the exception of an awesome few, but I still like to see it from time to time.
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Why so long, you ask? Because it's Victorian porn. Victorians take forever to get their clothes off.
BAHAHA! Oh, goodie; I can't wait to read it. You know there's an Age of Sail anon kink meme going on, yes? In case you have outtakes.... :o)
Every few months I do the whole search-for-self tour on google, delicious, icerocket, etc. It's funny to see what random places I turn up in (and I like to make sure none of them are associated with my real name). And I'm like you: I LOVE it when people give me concrit.
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Yes! I heard about the Age of Sail kink meme...haven't looked at it yet so I don't get distracted...
Huh! I dunno what icerocket is. You were one of the awesome people I was thinking of who's actually given me con crit. I do love con crit, and I love to see people say mean things about me on delicious. But honestly, if some of the comments on delicious were comments to my actual fic, I'd be ...more offended by them than I am.
It stings a little, when I look on delicious and see something negative, but it's really easy for me to defend whoever did it because I know they mean the comment for themselves and not for me. If they'd left the comment for me, I'd totally be able to get over it and think about what they said, but still, it'd sting more.
Luckily almost all con crit I've ever gotten in comments to my fics were comments like yours, where you could say what you liked, or I knew the commenter had a respect for me or my writing, so it didn't feel like it was coming out of nowhere. I love that kind of con crit! I wish everyone did it.
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Hee hee. I heart you.
I think your character's Eastern fetish is writable. Get a good beta. Write an author's note. Maybe see if someone on
Yes! I heard about the Age of Sail kink meme...haven't looked at it yet so I don't get distracted...
Good! I wasn't sure if people on LJ had caught wind of it. Oh, these cross-platform quandaries.
Huh! I dunno what icerocket is. You were one of the awesome people I was thinking of who's actually given me con crit. I do love con crit, and I love to see people say mean things about me on delicious.
icerocket.com is how I search for stuff (like my own name) on LJ, since LJ's search function is crap. I'm glad you liked getting my concrit. I only give it to people I'm interested in as writers, who are already doing certain things well and sound like they have cool ideas to talk about. Every so often the Feedback Debate rolls around and people quaver, "I'm so afraid to give it!" but I've never been flamed! I think most people really do appreciate it, provided you follow a few basics like, "Treat your fellow geek like a fellow geek, not a surprisingly literate beagle." But I may be self-selecting for kindred spirits.
I started to tell you I love seeing reviews of my fiction in the wild -- i.e. not meant for me -- even more than I love comments, but that's not true, because I love talking to people. But you know what I mean -- it is so interesting to see how people describe my stuff to others. It's one of the reasons I like keeping a recs page with little blurbs, not just the names and links. a) As a reader, I want to know why the reccer recced it, but b) I know the author might stop by and get a little thrill.
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In the adaptation she has this one weird random line about the Alhambra, and now in my head she is completely obsessed by 15th c. Muslim architecture--but I don't think she would actually care what Islam even is, so it's not as though she goes on about 15th c. Muslim architecture, she just happens to get obsessed with Mozambique.
There are a whole lot of class issues in N&S, and so class issues do come up in what I'm writing, though not as much as in N&S. I do think the reason I'm like this about N&S is I feel comfortable getting into something that addresses issues like that, but maybe that's just me wanting to feel good about myself. But race of course does not get addressed. I would *like* to address it in the parts about this secondary character, but I don't know how without it becoming a huge issue that's not really central to my story.
How could you not think I'd be excited about discussions of politics and literature?
Well, there's probably a lot that is shippery fluff, or something. I'm being rather half-assed about the politics, which doesn't quite sit right with me. There are some REALLY interesting issues here, but I don't have the answers to them. What I wanted to do is bring them up, and show that they are issues, and that there might not be an answer, which I feel that I did, to some extent. But then the hero and the heroine (the ones who differ politically) are all, "Well, we don't quite agree on these issues, but I see that you might have a point and I am interested in continuing this discussion..." and then...where else do I go with it? They're not going to agree. His viewpoint makes me uncomfortable, but hers is untenable. She bought him Wealth of Nations to show that she would not condemn him for being a self-interested capitalist, though, and he bought her Keats to show he's not all pounds and pennies. She teased him for being maudlin.
This is how I feel about the friction between capitalist self-interest and a more humanitarian socialism in real life--I just don't have an objective viewpoint to encompass every issue. I guess one doesn't need one, but it's why I'm unhappy discussing politics; everyone else is decisive and I feel I so often can't be. But anyway, because I don't go elsewhere with it after that, but the fic still goes on and on, the political discussion feels sort of stuck in there, as though I did it because I had an agenda, which I did. I mean, Gaskell very much had agendas. I want to show it is an ongoing issue in the relationship, but I don't know how--the central theme is really Victorian silence, and the problem is these characters are silent about sex, desire, and their dysfunctional families, but not about how they feel on political issues.
Anywho, I like the idea of my heroine making some comment on Miss Secondary Character's fetishism; that might work.
Every so often the Feedback Debate rolls around and people quaver, "I'm so afraid to give it!" but I've never been flamed!
I've never given it to someone who hasn't asked. I know that when I was first posting things, especially the experimental things with which I was uncomfortable, I put right there on the story that I wanted crit.
But you know what I mean
I do! I know lots of people who say they don't really want to know the truth about what everyone thinks about them. I think that they are remarkably honest with themselves for admitting that, but I really think I want to know. I have such a good opinion of myself, I feel like I could take it, and I'm just DYING of curiosity.
I'll be interested to see what you do think of the Victorian monstrosity if you do read it...
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I could do with a little feedback...will probably post something there, then.
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It's a bookmarking site, basically. People use it like flikr, but instead of pictures, you put all your links there. It's good for organizing your bookmarks, and seeing what other people's are. I never use it for any of that. I just use it to find porn.
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I'd never heard of it before.
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I love delicious! I realised that my policy of trying to remember in my head everything that I read on the internet was doomed to failure.
Also, Well Done on the porn!
:D
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How do you see who else has bookmarked your thing? Or maybe no one has bookmarked my stuff, which would be more likely since it sucks and there isn't much of it. LOL