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Re: How do authors deal with feeling discouraged?

[(Anonymous)]

So OP's are too busy prompting more prompts and not checking their old prompts for fills. I see almost no OP response to fills here. If the OP's don't care enough about their prompts to check for fills, what's the point?

Re: How do authors deal with feeling discouraged?

[(Anonymous)]

THIS. Why are you even prompting if you don't care about seeing someone fill it? Just put your random idea on your tumblr or write the story yourself instead of wasting other people's effort.

Re: How do authors deal with feeling discouraged?

[(Anonymous)]

I wonder (this is just conjecture) if the point for a lot of prompters is to have somewhere to share their ideas and story outlines, either to get validation or just to get them out there, and they don't much care how or even if random strangers interpret them themselves?

I mean, it might explain why there were so many long, detailed story outlines disguised as prompts being posted until the mod put a stop to it. It's a way of sharing what the prompter presumably thinks is an "amazing" idea for a story that they came up with, without having to go to the effort of actually writing it as a proper story. Basically, it's more about sharing an idea with the fandom than about getting a fill.

Just some thoughts...

Re: How do authors deal with feeling discouraged?

[(Anonymous)]

DA upthread agrees with you.

Re: How do authors deal with feeling discouraged?

[(Anonymous)]

Same anon, just to add, if that is the case for some prompters, I don't think it is a good thing at all. It makes a lot of people unhappy. Just thought I should make that clear.

Re: How do authors deal with feeling discouraged?

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed. There's no point in filling here.

Re: How do authors deal with feeling discouraged?

[(Anonymous)]

Oh please don't say that!

I'm working on some fills myself but there are some prompts I really want to see filled

Re: How do authors deal with feeling discouraged?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think it's quite that. Being more interested in prompting /= no point in writing fills. It just means it's time for a shift so that the focus falls on filling for a while. In other words, prompt freezes.

Re: How do authors deal with feeling discouraged?

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think that's necessarily true; I've been posting an ongoing fill and have been getting lots of good responses, and I know that I'm always careful to comment on anything I read and enjoyed, even if it's just a quick response. Sometimes kinkmemes go through periods of 'prompt prompt prompt!!!' and other times there's more focus on the fills; it doesn't mean there's no point in writing fills!

Re: How do authors deal with feeling discouraged?

[(Anonymous)]

How long are people waiting for replies, though? I don't check the meme or fill post every day because I don't have time, so there have been occasions where I've replied to a fill days or a week after the fact.