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Re: Impatient

[(Anonymous)]

DC Honestly, anyone who's just in fandom for the comments/kudos/etc. probably isn't doing Yuletide. They're writing tropey fic for juggernaut pairings in megafandoms.

I keep track of how my works are doing in Yuletide, but it's not out of any desire to dominate Yuletide or build a brand or whatever. It's something to do while I'm commenting on other people's works. And if people really enjoy a particular thing, I know to write more like that in the future, if it comes up. That's helpful. But I'm still going to be writing the thing for a fandom with a small or tiny or maybe non-existent audience, not for a megafandom juggernaut.

Re: Impatient

[(Anonymous)]

+1

Over half the stories I wrote this year were first-in-fandoms, so I knew going on that a recip comment might be the beginning and end of it. If I cared about getting lots of hits, kudos and comments I'd have written untitled goose game or a children's show, but I have no interest in writing for or reading those.

People who are concerned about that stuff just have to write for one or two of those and wait for the hits to come, pretty much guaranteed.

On the other hand, if the fandoms I like and maybe already write it or plan to start, filling a Yuletide request for them is typically going to mean more attention than it might get in mid-January or June outside an exchange, so I might wait for that. Even those are small fandoms where a little handful of comments is the most it will ever get.

But there's no wrong way to do it. People who are in for the kudos and comments and people who aren't are all just trying to have fun in their own way.

Re: Impatient

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly, anyone who's just in fandom for the comments/kudos/etc. probably isn't doing Yuletide

Are you nuts? Have you read the endless "I got no kudos and comments for this Yuletide fic" here and on FFA?

Re: Impatient

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I think there's a difference between people who are only doing fandom to game for high numbers on their stats page and people who hope for anything >[absolute silence] in response to posting their fanwork.

Re: Impatient

[(Anonymous)]

+1000

I totally scale my expectations for feedback based on fandom size, ship popularity (when applicable), story length, and my self-evaluation of how good the fic I wrote is. But if I get literally no feedback for a story, when I was hoping at the very least for a recip comment/kudos, then that's going to make me feel like crap.