Meme!

[jeauthormeme]

JE AUTHOR MEME

• Want to express your undying love for an author?
• Want to express your hate for a certain trope?
• Want to whine about your entire fandom ditching it for Exo?
• Wondering where all the Shonentai fic is?
• Hate the way your favorite is characterized?

Comments

[anonymous]

The serious decline of comments on my fics is making me realize I do care about comments after all :/

/used to be one of those I ONLY WRITE FOR MYSELF people

(Posted this to anon meme by accident because I have both tabs open OTZ)

[anonymous]

As a writer, I've never believed that "write for myself" thing. Unless you don't post your work online or bury your writings in a cave, you're writing for someone. If it's just you, there'd be no need to post it -- the story will exist in your head anyway. Those who insist are just in denial.

[anonymous]

You don't know how many years I've needed to hear someone say that.

[anonymous]

Lol, I was actually thinking along similar lines as your first post just a few minutes before I read it. I stopped writing except for exchanges because I didn't want to feel like I was writing for no one or that my posting was pointless, because I'm too lazy to promote my fics in comms and my characters and pairings aren't all that popular, anyway.

[anonymous]

somehow i can relate..my characters and pairings aren't that well received and.i don't even feel like posting my fics to comm anymore. i feel more comfortable posting them in my ao3 acc, i always feel reluctant to post them in lj, not because i am expecting comments (which is impossible almost in every way) but more likely the reason is at the very least i know there are still people clicking on my fics based on the amount of hits..yeah, i'm pathetic that way.

[anonymous]

I think I used to be like that, at first wrote only for myself, said I didn't care about the comments then realized I did, but I've gone back to writing for myself, and for my rl friend who also writes. We give each other feedback, help each other with plots etc. And I don't post online until I'm sure I'll actually finish the fic off, if it's a multichapter. When I post, I don't crosspost to any communities immediately either, I just do it if I remember to do so later on, haha. My fic journal is more like a back-up, in a way. But then again, I never got a huge amount of comments in my original fandom, but it was always fun to know someone is reading what you write.

Maybe what you need is someone like my friend, rl or not doesn't matter I guess, someone to give you feedback so that you feel motivated enough?

[anonymous]

Yeah, I was one of those people, too. I feel really bad for ever saying it. I've had this fantastic AU in my head for ages, but what's the point of making the effort to pin down the details and write it if nobody's even going to read it? Writing is fun, but I liked it better when it was a community thing.

[anonymous]

- I write for myself, but most of all I plot for myself, there's always a story in my head waiting to happen.

- I write more, rewrite, flesh out, edit, edit, edit, have my stuff beta read, edit some more, code and post for ... readers.

It's completely normal that when no one seems to be reading, it feels much better to stick to just writing random snippets, on paper or just in my head, to plot and laugh to myself as I put bullet points on paper napkins, but since the comments declined drastically, I hardly ever finish anything. Because it takes so much time to go through the process in the second - up there, and unless I am completely in love with the story to the point that I don't want to leave it, leave that universe ever, it doesn't make me happy to try for no one anymore.

I guess this is tl,dr, but I feel you <3