The best thing about having an iPhone, I've decided, is the ability to post without leaving my bed. And that's despite having my laptop only about two feet from the bed anyway, but, you know, I'd have to stretch and maybe wouldn't make it without getting cold.
Also it wouldn't correct my typos as I type and I'd have to capitalise I all of the time and stuff but I suppose my it's (or its at least) would be safe from interference.
I've decided that currently I am doing the fannish equivalent of floating in cool, calm water on my back and staring at the sky. I am keeping up with flists and occasionally think vague commenty thoughts but the sky is kind of blue and there are fluffy clouds and rolling over to strike for shore seems such an effort. I suspect this is because there is so much rl stress with year end and having to produce utter miracles out of my hat with no staff and other omgz drama that I have no energy for most of fandom other than to gently scull in order to not sink.
It also occurred to me this morning that I'm not really reading fic. I'm certainly not seeking it out or clicking on links. I don't know what that says. If it's a flisty posting it and a pairing I'm interested in then I may read and comment but![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
deinonychus_1 hasn't posted Abby/Connor for a while and so I drift. It's sort of like the fandoms I'm not fannish about, where my main interaction is with the show and not other fans but as my show isn't currently airing my main interaction is with the stories that go on in my head, which I sometimes write down and stare at for a while.
That sounds very meh but it's more floaty and zen I think.
And talking about my own stories, I see that the feedback discussion is going through it's nth iteration. So let me spell out my attitude towards feedback as though it's neither old nor obvious.
I love feedback and cherish every comment whether it's an incise treatise on the story or a simple 'love it'. Sometimes, when I'm very blue and feel like I suck in every arena of fannish life I reread some of the nice things people have said. But then I also reread my own stories because I write the kinds of things I love to read, so I'd take that with a grain of salt.
No one is obliged to comment. Ever. My issues are my own and I own them. Everyone else has their own demands on their time and preferences and energy shortages and I'm not selfish or self-centred enough to think mine take preference. Feedback isn't why I write. It might influence when I post but frankly most if that is getting it off my hard drive so I can move onto the next thing. I already know that I'm not going to do the WIP thing again ::g:: but that's as far as it goes.
I don't comment on everything I read. I don't finish everything I start reading. Sometimes that's lack of energy. Sometimes that's because I lurk and am shy about delurking in that fandom or forum. Sometimes that's because I am, as I have been told more than once, the world's worst liar and Sturgeon's Law applies to fanfiction as to everything else.
But if I love something, if it moves me and leaves me thinky or happy then I will probably say so. Sometimes I get a little shamefaced by the 'probably' but thanks to LJ's stats feature I already know that there are people who track some of my fic tags so they don't miss my stories but never, ever comment so I know I'm not alone in that. It serves to make me feel a little less sucky about it ::g::
I reply to all feedback, because I think it's rude not to say thank you when someone says something nice to you. I do not view the exchange as being fanfiction -> feedback. No one owes me feedback unless it is a fic exchange. So the argument that people owe feedback or that authors don't have to reply to it because wouldn't you rather they spent their time writing more fic makes me roll my eyes. I'm not saying I am perfect and I may have missed some, and depending on how engaged my brain is it might take a week or more, but that's my view.
Back to floating, or rather shower as I've spent too long on this and I'm meeting Moonlettuce in an hour ::g::
Also it wouldn't correct my typos as I type and I'd have to capitalise I all of the time and stuff but I suppose my it's (or its at least) would be safe from interference.
I've decided that currently I am doing the fannish equivalent of floating in cool, calm water on my back and staring at the sky. I am keeping up with flists and occasionally think vague commenty thoughts but the sky is kind of blue and there are fluffy clouds and rolling over to strike for shore seems such an effort. I suspect this is because there is so much rl stress with year end and having to produce utter miracles out of my hat with no staff and other omgz drama that I have no energy for most of fandom other than to gently scull in order to not sink.
It also occurred to me this morning that I'm not really reading fic. I'm certainly not seeking it out or clicking on links. I don't know what that says. If it's a flisty posting it and a pairing I'm interested in then I may read and comment but
deinonychus_1 hasn't posted Abby/Connor for a while and so I drift. It's sort of like the fandoms I'm not fannish about, where my main interaction is with the show and not other fans but as my show isn't currently airing my main interaction is with the stories that go on in my head, which I sometimes write down and stare at for a while.That sounds very meh but it's more floaty and zen I think.
And talking about my own stories, I see that the feedback discussion is going through it's nth iteration. So let me spell out my attitude towards feedback as though it's neither old nor obvious.
I love feedback and cherish every comment whether it's an incise treatise on the story or a simple 'love it'. Sometimes, when I'm very blue and feel like I suck in every arena of fannish life I reread some of the nice things people have said. But then I also reread my own stories because I write the kinds of things I love to read, so I'd take that with a grain of salt.
No one is obliged to comment. Ever. My issues are my own and I own them. Everyone else has their own demands on their time and preferences and energy shortages and I'm not selfish or self-centred enough to think mine take preference. Feedback isn't why I write. It might influence when I post but frankly most if that is getting it off my hard drive so I can move onto the next thing. I already know that I'm not going to do the WIP thing again ::g:: but that's as far as it goes.
I don't comment on everything I read. I don't finish everything I start reading. Sometimes that's lack of energy. Sometimes that's because I lurk and am shy about delurking in that fandom or forum. Sometimes that's because I am, as I have been told more than once, the world's worst liar and Sturgeon's Law applies to fanfiction as to everything else.
But if I love something, if it moves me and leaves me thinky or happy then I will probably say so. Sometimes I get a little shamefaced by the 'probably' but thanks to LJ's stats feature I already know that there are people who track some of my fic tags so they don't miss my stories but never, ever comment so I know I'm not alone in that. It serves to make me feel a little less sucky about it ::g::
I reply to all feedback, because I think it's rude not to say thank you when someone says something nice to you. I do not view the exchange as being fanfiction -> feedback. No one owes me feedback unless it is a fic exchange. So the argument that people owe feedback or that authors don't have to reply to it because wouldn't you rather they spent their time writing more fic makes me roll my eyes. I'm not saying I am perfect and I may have missed some, and depending on how engaged my brain is it might take a week or more, but that's my view.
Back to floating, or rather shower as I've spent too long on this and I'm meeting Moonlettuce in an hour ::g::