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Mar. 9th, 2007 09:12 pmAfter reading ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
seperis' heads up on this post and the answering one here, I am a bit at a loss.
Basically, the first post states (and I'm oversimplifying the arguments here in order to make this brief) that if you write well and a lot, eventually comments will come.
The second post states that even if you write well and a lot, but for the wrong pairing, or gen, you might be the most excellent writer, and comments will still be sparse.
What drives me bonkers about this (by which I don't mean that I'm criticising either entry) is that there are people who, even if not in the quantities other people are, have written several stories over the past two years, which were excellent in plot, structure and emotional resonance, and were even in fandom's choice pairing, and STILL they have trouble breaching the double digits when it comes to comments.
Yes, I'm talking aboutmurron. Call me biased. Yes, she is my best friend. But she is also and excellent, fantastic writer, something I'd see even if we weren't friends. Her sense of scenery and atmosphere is impeccable. Her characterisation rings true. Her dialogues are in character. She offers plot. She offers team-moments. She offers romance, and what's worth more, she offers and delivers intimacy, emotional intimacy. She writes McShep. She offers incredibly well done and not over the top angst. She has the most deft hand a suspense I have ever seen.
And yet ... few comments.
And I don't freaking get it. She doesn't ping people's radar, and it's all wrong, because she's good, damn it, she's excellent, and she should be known.
Now, she doesn't take it as badly, but a certain hopelessness shone through when she told me the other day that with the story she's writing on now, she doesn't really expect people to finish reading it because of the extensive plot and the slowly building suspense and the way the story just takes its time revealing layer by layer what is happening.
And that is something that makes me come back to one of my (well, our) own and wonder: Would Fates have done so well if there hadn't been such a heavy dose of McShep porn to go with the plot?
And, thus, wouldmurron need porn in her stories to get acknowledged? And, if so - isn't that incredibly sad?
seperis' heads up on this post and the answering one here, I am a bit at a loss.Basically, the first post states (and I'm oversimplifying the arguments here in order to make this brief) that if you write well and a lot, eventually comments will come.
The second post states that even if you write well and a lot, but for the wrong pairing, or gen, you might be the most excellent writer, and comments will still be sparse.
What drives me bonkers about this (by which I don't mean that I'm criticising either entry) is that there are people who, even if not in the quantities other people are, have written several stories over the past two years, which were excellent in plot, structure and emotional resonance, and were even in fandom's choice pairing, and STILL they have trouble breaching the double digits when it comes to comments.
Yes, I'm talking about
murron. Call me biased. Yes, she is my best friend. But she is also and excellent, fantastic writer, something I'd see even if we weren't friends. Her sense of scenery and atmosphere is impeccable. Her characterisation rings true. Her dialogues are in character. She offers plot. She offers team-moments. She offers romance, and what's worth more, she offers and delivers intimacy, emotional intimacy. She writes McShep. She offers incredibly well done and not over the top angst. She has the most deft hand a suspense I have ever seen.And yet ... few comments.
And I don't freaking get it. She doesn't ping people's radar, and it's all wrong, because she's good, damn it, she's excellent, and she should be known.
Now, she doesn't take it as badly, but a certain hopelessness shone through when she told me the other day that with the story she's writing on now, she doesn't really expect people to finish reading it because of the extensive plot and the slowly building suspense and the way the story just takes its time revealing layer by layer what is happening.
And that is something that makes me come back to one of my (well, our) own and wonder: Would Fates have done so well if there hadn't been such a heavy dose of McShep porn to go with the plot?
And, thus, would
murron need porn in her stories to get acknowledged? And, if so - isn't that incredibly sad?