The FV & TTT Social Thread
Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 11:03 pm
This forum is really quiet lately.
In Nightmare's thread Northstar suggested we speak up and review and while I'm thrilled to see such a prolific writer, neither the evo universe nor smut is my thing. There's nothing wrong with it, it's just not my preference.
I know that both Slarti and Nacht are busy, and I'm pretty busy too, but this is where I go when I want to take a break from studying so if there's nothing going on here it means I have nothing to entertain me. So I'm kind of overstepping my bounds here in making this thread, but I don't think anyone's going to care.
Here's what I was thinking:
Fan fiction communities have a way of waxing and waning; I've seen it happen over and over again. Part of what makes a community prolific is the newness of the subject matter - so given the attention X2 brought to Nightcrawler, that's probably not going to happen again until 2006. However, the other thing is that the participants get to know each other not just as authors but as people. It's very hard to give feedback to someone who's completely faceless and it's even harder to challenge/dare them to write more/better/different. Part of the fun is the comradery.
To use myself as an example - I didn't just start posting Even Angles have Scars, I introduced myself, and then if you read through the thread you get sort of a mini-autobiography along with Kurt's story. My cat died, I spent like a month in the hospital and wrote like I was on drugs, I got accepted in vet school. I didn't mean for this to happen, but when I look back on the thread, I think it's why it has so many views - it was like "reality internet" or whatever you want to call it.
I know that off topic posting is frowned upon so I thought I would make a thread where it was encouraged. This is the thread where you introduce yourself, talk about your day, your cat, your neighbor's cat, and let the people know who you are whether you are a reader or a writer. What are your so busy doing that you're not writing about or drawing pictures of nightcrawler?
This could be the biggest dumb idea I've ever had and it might fall to the bottom with no posts ever, but I'm tired of reading Lemony Snicket books for study breaks. Plus I've got chapters written of the sequel to Even Angels have Scars and I don't even know if there's an audience out there.
So there you have it: my brilliant plan to get us all writing and reading each other's stuff. So get posting because as curious as I am to find out what happens now that the Baudelaire orphans have arrived at Lake Lachrymose, I'd like to read some Nightcrawler stories.
-e
In Nightmare's thread Northstar suggested we speak up and review and while I'm thrilled to see such a prolific writer, neither the evo universe nor smut is my thing. There's nothing wrong with it, it's just not my preference.
I know that both Slarti and Nacht are busy, and I'm pretty busy too, but this is where I go when I want to take a break from studying so if there's nothing going on here it means I have nothing to entertain me. So I'm kind of overstepping my bounds here in making this thread, but I don't think anyone's going to care.
Here's what I was thinking:
Fan fiction communities have a way of waxing and waning; I've seen it happen over and over again. Part of what makes a community prolific is the newness of the subject matter - so given the attention X2 brought to Nightcrawler, that's probably not going to happen again until 2006. However, the other thing is that the participants get to know each other not just as authors but as people. It's very hard to give feedback to someone who's completely faceless and it's even harder to challenge/dare them to write more/better/different. Part of the fun is the comradery.
To use myself as an example - I didn't just start posting Even Angles have Scars, I introduced myself, and then if you read through the thread you get sort of a mini-autobiography along with Kurt's story. My cat died, I spent like a month in the hospital and wrote like I was on drugs, I got accepted in vet school. I didn't mean for this to happen, but when I look back on the thread, I think it's why it has so many views - it was like "reality internet" or whatever you want to call it.
I know that off topic posting is frowned upon so I thought I would make a thread where it was encouraged. This is the thread where you introduce yourself, talk about your day, your cat, your neighbor's cat, and let the people know who you are whether you are a reader or a writer. What are your so busy doing that you're not writing about or drawing pictures of nightcrawler?
This could be the biggest dumb idea I've ever had and it might fall to the bottom with no posts ever, but I'm tired of reading Lemony Snicket books for study breaks. Plus I've got chapters written of the sequel to Even Angels have Scars and I don't even know if there's an audience out there.
So there you have it: my brilliant plan to get us all writing and reading each other's stuff. So get posting because as curious as I am to find out what happens now that the Baudelaire orphans have arrived at Lake Lachrymose, I'd like to read some Nightcrawler stories.
-e