Re: Doing well/doing badly?

(Anonymous) 2019-12-27 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
I mean, there's a certain amount (a LOT) of subjectiveness to what is a good fic, but if there are two fics in the collection for a fandom and one has 3 digit kudos and one has single digits? Unless, like, the other is the juggernaut pairing and yours is gen about the character nobody likes, you might want to re-evaluate your writing, or have a friendly reader who will give you concrit look it over.

(also, THREE DIGITS of kudos? In Yuletide? I am envious.)

Re: Doing well/doing badly?

(Anonymous) 2019-12-27 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
NC

As someone who landed on writing the 'gen about the character nobody likes' fic this year, this hurt!

I really don't think coalie's writing is THAT bad, though. Then there'd still be a lot of hits from the fandom, before they realized it's a mess of a fic. Unless they're also the sort of person who tags 50 pairings and 100 freeforms and has a social media AU summary?

Re: Doing well/doing badly?

(Anonymous) 2019-12-27 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
Exactly this, regarding hits. I also wrote gen about a less popular character, and I have slightly fewer hits than a shippy fic posted for this fandom, but more kudos. There's hope for us yet.

Re: Doing well/doing badly?

(Anonymous) 2019-12-27 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
NC

you might want to re-evaluate your writing
Jesus christ, this was assholic.

Re: Doing well/doing badly?

(Anonymous) 2019-12-27 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
DC - maybe it wasn't phrased cult-of-nicey, but they got "thank you for writing for me" and single digit kudos compared to triple digit kudos? I can see their point.

Re: Doing well/doing badly?

(Anonymous) 2019-12-27 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
There are no fandoms with two fics where one has triple digit kudos and one has single. I'm confused or they're exaggerating.

Re: Doing well/doing badly?

(Anonymous) 2019-12-27 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe "the other fic in the fandom" means that this is literally a two-work fandom; it could be from a previous Yuletide, or Be The First??

Re: Doing well/doing badly?

(Anonymous) 2019-12-27 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
In that case then it makes little sense to be comparing the kudos already!

Re: Doing well/doing badly?

(Anonymous) 2019-12-28 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
I assume they fudged the details to make it harder to find because otherwise that would be pretty easy. I'm guessing the fandom has more than two fics.