themodawakens ([personal profile] themodawakens) wrote in [community profile] tfa_kink2015-12-19 05:07 pm

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Re: How do authors deal with feeling discouraged?

(Anonymous) 2016-01-16 02:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm sure your fics are fine, but I have noticed a couple things about this meme/fandom:

-the meme moves insanely fast

-it seems like a lot of OPs never come back to comment

If you're looking for eyes on your fic, kink memes aren't really the place for that. You're never going to get the quantity of feedback here you will posting other places just because the format doesn't really lend itself to that (and you can't see hits.)

Also, I personally won't touch a multi-part fic on a meme especially unless it's finished or so amazing it keeps me coming back. It's hard to track multi-parters and so many people never bother to finish them that I just don't bother. My personal policy on posting multi-parters is to not post them at all until they're complete and I can post them all at once.

If you're looking for feedback in a tangible way, make a fake account and post to Ao3 or maybe ff.net.

It totally sucks to write something you're into and not get much feedback. I try to focus on what I got out of writing as opposed to what other people think. There's awesome fills on here that got very little attention and less-than-great fills that have tons of comments just because of pairing, timing, whatever.

Re: How do authors deal with feeling discouraged?

(Anonymous) 2016-01-16 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)
This is a really nice, well-thought-out, sincere comment that addresses multiple angles. You are great.