Re: Impatient

(Anonymous) 2019-12-28 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
+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.