Fic: Seek Out The Unworthy

[danlef]

A couple of days of beta work and that's all - my latest work of fanfiction is finished.

I'm not giving it much hope though. What I would really love would be if someone who can write really well, took this about 50k story as a plot outline and dressed it up in words.

Comments

[arianedevere]

*bops you round the back of the head with a union flag cushion*

You dressed it up, honey. You dressed it up like a boss. I have done little but flail all the way with wonder about just how much you've written a unique and brilliant story. Your ideas are superb, and you've developed characters superbly.

And, having surfaced to tell you that, I'm going back to work on the epilogue!

[danlef]

*give me that cushion to cry myself to sleep on it*

Bear with me. This is "post-fic" comedown. There will be nothing to cheer me up for several days now before my body remembers that there's more to life than writing.

[shezan]

Whaddya mean, words? This is superbly written. SRSLY.

[danlef]

*took me several minutes to decode SRSLY* :))

Seriously, please don't delude me. When a fic doesn't get a single comment for three weeks, it's pretty much clear that it didn't hit the mark. I don't complain though - I had fun writing it, and my job is not making people reading it.

[shezan]

There are MILLIONS of Sherlock fics. I don't say "millions" as a lazy alternative to "a lot"; I do mean actual millions. VERY good stuff can drop behind the furniture. Your story is absolutely first-rate, and I speak as a professional newspaper/magazine editor.

[danlef]

Apparently, behind the furniture is my favourite spot:)

I think we are talking about two different things, though. First is the quality of the fic, and second is its actual reception. Your words as of a professional editor thrill me, but also don't really surprise me - I'm a pro writer after all and I have, shamefully, to some degree grown used to the praise of my editor:)

As a pro writer, I can see my story with some detachment.

But regardless what I think about it, regardless of what you think about it and quite surprisingly regardless of what the story itself is, there is nothing within my powers to make it succeed. To bring it through to the readers. It's not my job to do it, I posted it and I posted an announcement about it and that's how I am done with it. I am most emphatically NOT going to rec it, because I tried to do it once with my earlier stuff - self-reccing - and it backfired so beautifully I thought I'd never recover.