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tarotgalLately I've been hanging out online at the Wonderful World of Makebelieve. I've posted some of my fics there since 2005 but during the last few weeks they implemented a new kudos system (basically, if you like a chapter or a story, you can give it kudos). It's like a Facebook "like". And you can be anonymous if you want. Anyway, a bunch of my stories were given kudos--stories I forgot I even wrote. It's been kind of awesome to know that people actually read them, even though they didn't leave a review--and that's the beauty of the kudos system. If you don't feel like reviewing, you can just hit a button to let the author know you enjoyed it. Squee! It's so neat to find out all these random stories I wrote are being read!
So over the weekend I went ahead and put another 60 or 70 stories up on the site. There are lots of NCIS fans on there (I'm part of the Gibbs/Dinozzo WWOM yahoo group, so it's no surprise) so I put a handful of my NCIS stories up there, including Sleepwalker. So far Sleepwalker has gotten 29 kudos. Squee.
But, twice now I've been online AS people have been reading and reviewing multi-chapter work of mine. It's happening RIGHT NOW with Sleepwalker and it happened over the last few days with last year's LMOM fic, Collared. I sit here, watching the reviews after every chapter, like I'm reading over their shoulders virtually. It's so frigging cool.
Yeah, I write for myself and I always will. And I KNOW people read my stuff. You guys are awesome at giving me feedback and encouragement. But there's just something cool about coincidentally being online at the same time as someone's reading a multi-chapter piece and commenting throughout... this is really very addictive.
And speaking of NICS fic, I just came up with a great story I want to write the other day with Stan. I've got it half written in my head and I'm about 2 sentences into it on paper. Pfft! But I'm excited about it. And I've written a couple challenge prompts (actually 3, so not technically a couple) over at WWOM. I wrote Remus/Snape this morning and yesterday I wrote a rather dark & angsty Logan/Kurt fic :-) Happy times!
So over the weekend I went ahead and put another 60 or 70 stories up on the site. There are lots of NCIS fans on there (I'm part of the Gibbs/Dinozzo WWOM yahoo group, so it's no surprise) so I put a handful of my NCIS stories up there, including Sleepwalker. So far Sleepwalker has gotten 29 kudos. Squee.
But, twice now I've been online AS people have been reading and reviewing multi-chapter work of mine. It's happening RIGHT NOW with Sleepwalker and it happened over the last few days with last year's LMOM fic, Collared. I sit here, watching the reviews after every chapter, like I'm reading over their shoulders virtually. It's so frigging cool.
Yeah, I write for myself and I always will. And I KNOW people read my stuff. You guys are awesome at giving me feedback and encouragement. But there's just something cool about coincidentally being online at the same time as someone's reading a multi-chapter piece and commenting throughout... this is really very addictive.
And speaking of NICS fic, I just came up with a great story I want to write the other day with Stan. I've got it half written in my head and I'm about 2 sentences into it on paper. Pfft! But I'm excited about it. And I've written a couple challenge prompts (actually 3, so not technically a couple) over at WWOM. I wrote Remus/Snape this morning and yesterday I wrote a rather dark & angsty Logan/Kurt fic :-) Happy times!
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Date: 2011-06-04 02:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-04 04:10 pm (UTC)There are about a bazillion Yahoo groups & journal communities tied into the archive for various pairings, fandoms, etc. and a general group for general fanfic: http://www.squidge.org/peja/cgi-bin/viewstory.php?sid=28607 Because I have a lot of fandoms, I find it a fun place to play (a little bit of everything). But I'm on about 5 different mailing lists as well (stories submitted on those lists immediately get archived, but there's also discussion and memes and things).