Fandom karma

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-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 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.

Comments

[stultiloquentia]

Ha! That's too cute. Not the first story I've heard about happy husbands/fanfic improving people's sex lives. Huzzah!

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.

[mabus101.livejournal.com]

I'd never heard of the secret spot before. It's the LJ you linked to? Fandomsecrets? Or is that something else?

I could do with a little feedback...will probably post something there, then.

[laliandra.livejournal.com]

Oo, a fandom secret about you! How amazingly cool! It is one of my internet aspirations, like getting metaquoted or a comment from an author I love on a fic of mine. Oh, I am such a dork...

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. brimtoast introduced me to what we call deliciousstalking. It's so fun! It's also good to stick your username into the search feature, because people have different links to the same fic. People say all sorts of interesting stuff in their bookmarks that they don't say in comments (same with AO3, which I don't know if you use). I do worry about people reading mine for concrit though, because my bookmark comments are actually made of crack!

Also, Well Done on the porn!
:D

[deathmask-revel.livejournal.com]

I must be a little slow, I can't figure out how Delicious works. XD

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