FAQ

[bendingsignpost]

Q: Are you a guy or a girl?
A: I'm a guy. This is why I invite people to call me "Ben". I can understand if the slash confuses you.

Q: Are you British?
A: Maybe someday.

Q: Can I friend your journal?
A: Sure! This thing is almost entirely fic, so I really like it when people friend me.

Q: Do you have an AO3 or ff.net account?
A: I have an AO3 account.

Comments

[dreamofsunday]

I didn't know you had an AO3 account! I like downloading stories I love and AO3's download function would have been so much easier than copy-pasting the many chapters of the watches 'verse. Love your work!

[bendingsignpost]

Thanks! The AO3 account is fairly new and, what with the download function and all, I thought I ought to let people know.

[jordan_frog]

I can understand if the slash confuses you lol foreeeever

[jak_frost]

Hello Ben!

Yay for the AO3! I know the reasoning behind why everyone seems to hate ff.net but I've never really had much of a problem with it. Though maybe that's because I navigate from rec lists and favorites....

Also, thought you might like to know, I don't consciously choose to read WIPs. (I've been burned too many times from fics that don't finish). The few times I've broken this rule, I'll read what's posted, forget about it for a while, remember months later and catch up (repeat as necessary). I am reading your fic chapter by chapter, as soon as it is posted.

Can't wait for more and thank you for sharing with us!

[bendingsignpost]

Hello, JK! Jak? Friendly person!

FF.net wasn't much of an issue for reading, but there came a point in attempting to upload things where, no matter what I tried, all of my quotation marks were removed from my works. I have something of a temper and having people messaging to tell me how much better my work would be with quotation marks around the dialogue, well. I was pissed off for a serious stretch of time. And that is why I am no longer on FF.net.

With luck, Stranger at the Gate will be fully uploaded in about a week and the last chapter of Elsewhere Come Morning a reasonable amount of time afterwards. I can totally understand avoiding WIPs.

[jak_frost]

Jak works just fine! Though I've been known to answer to 'hey you!' and oddly enough 'Jeff' despite neither being anywhere close to my name.

Ah yeah, the punctuation problem. I've heard about it but wasn't thinking about that. Very good reason to drop ff.net like a poisonous crawly thing.

No worries about posting. From looking at your past work I wasn't really concerned about any chronic WIPs, I just wanted to point out that I have neither been able to wait until it's finished to start reading, nor have I been able to distract myself enough to forget to check on a daily basis. Both extremely high compliments alone, but together? Woah.

FAQ

[aislinn42]

Huge fan of your writing. Any plans to finish "In Human Hands"?

Re: FAQ

[bendingsignpost]

Not really, no. My love of Who has died down considerably since Tennant left. I really don't see myself writing any more serious Who fic.

Re: FAQ

[whoisarwyn]

Can I get, like, a plot synopsis? If I beg? And call you sir? And don't kill you for chapter 10 of Stranger? And run around answering this question for you so you are never bothered by it again? And, um... THERE MUST BE SOMETHING!!! ...please?? I just want to know what happens! *sobs at your feet*

Re: FAQ

[ravenskyewalker]

Actually, if you were only in DW fandom for Tennant, then it's great that you left. It's just too bad that you wrote so much that fandom apparently misses it. (Considering I refuse to read Ninth or Tenth Doctor fanfic, because I couldn't care less about Eccleston and despise Tennant, it's no loss at all for me! LOL)

[markeyisapunk]

it' nice to meet you, ben!

[bendingsignpost]

Same to you! Markey, is it?

[markeyisapunk]

yup -- in RL and LJ. have I mentioned yet that your writing is very pretty? it is. all your stories have a kind of mesmerizing quality. and yet, they are not lightweight in the plot department. I've really enjoyed reading them and I sometimes tell people who laugh at me for reading fanfiction about your watchverse. they usually stop laughing then :)

[bendingsignpost]

Heh, probably because they're too busy nursing their headaches!