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]

I feel like one of the reasons je fic fandom is dying, is because it's kind of hard to get into it as a new writer. Am I the only one feeling that way?

[anonymous]

i feel you...

[anonymous]

Hmm what do you mean by that? Because there isn't much of an audience who leave comments?

[anonymous]

They mostly/only leave comments for already big/well-known authors.

[anonymous]

Isn't that the case in any fandom though?

[anonymous]

Of course, but I see why it's discouraging as a new writer, to not get anything at all while the ones that have been going on forever get tons. Not a matter of being better, rather that readers prefer to not try a new author?

[anonymous]

i know that feeling. they much prefer to click or read without leaving at least a critic whether the fics they have written are terrible or not
while the old author, no matter how sucks their stories are, the readers would still be praising them like founding a gold. that's the problem.
and then people will be complaining how the new writers wrote crappy in meme like this, when they as the reader did nothing to leave any constructive comments even.
-_-

[anonymous]

You have to make it clear that you want constructive criticism, anon. No one gives it unsolicited because people tend to be sensitive.

[anonymous]

But maybe they did try and didn't like what they saw for whatever reason so they didn't leave a comment and/or didn't want to keep reading future fics.

[anonymous]

Might be the case. But it'd still be a reason for the fic fandom dying out.

[anonymous]

Of course it's still a reason, but the way you worded it makes it sound like the new writers have no role whatsoever in influencing people to stick to known authors-- like they're hapless victims to circle jerking and fandom exclusion or something since readers are preferring to stick to what they know. I'm just saying the new fics most likely are being read, but there's only so many comments you can get when you start off badly yourself since people will remember their initial impressions and certainly won't stick around to watch you improve as a writer.

[anonymous]

This. You can't chalk envy thing up to circle jerking or people not liking new authors. You have to examine yourself and see if you really HAVE given them reason to like your fic or see enough potential in you to leave a comment.

[anonymous]

Ugh envy thing = everything

I cannot type today.

[anonymous]

+1

I give all new names at least a couple of tries but if I didn't like the writing (grammar/typos/weeaboo-ness/OOC/bad execution are some common reasons) I give up on them and pretty much ignore their name when I see their new posts. Don't see why I should subject myself to reading stuff I don't even like just to encourage a newbie author to keep writing and hopefully improve into a better author.

[anonymous]

da

When I uploaded my first fic to my journal in 2007 I got thirty comments in about a week. It was so overwhelmingly encouraging, I wrote another one the next day and I just kept going. They started petering off around 2009/10 and since then, I still write, but it's mostly very short one shots of my OTP and nothing else because no one seems interested anymore, so I put my effort into original work.

[anonymous]

My experience was different. I wrote my first fic late last year and I posted it and got a lot of positive comments. It was a rare pair too. I'm surprised! My fic wasn't anything interesting either. I guess I'm lucky?