Hi. Why yes, I am distracting myself.

[scarletmorning]

I hate Sandman and Neil Gaiman. And Alan Moore writes boring stuff. That's why my brain wanders. And today it made me think about reviews.

This incoherent rambling is not directed at anybody nor is it triggered by someone on my flist. If I would have to name a source of my thoughts, it would be the German ff.de.

So I was thinking about my attitude to reviews and the attitude of other people. And I noticed that yes, I get very few reviews. Especially since I seem to write mostly about minor characters that few people care about (Brokings). I don't think I have a big audience or people interested in what I write. Which is fine for me. There is also always the fact that people might be turned off by my English, but I have to admit that this thought doesn't cross my mind often (Yep, I'm either that confident or that uncaring).

And I don't particular care. I don't really care if a story doesn't get any reviews (like Rose and That dear child on ff.net). I do love every review I get, of course, but getting no reviews doesn't gnaw on my confidence. Now I was contemplating where this sentiment comes from, especially when I read about people being sad or annoyed that nobody comments. And sometimes I don't understand them. Yes, comments are love, but I don't need them.

Part of that I contribute to my personality. In real life I don't care that much about what other people think about me or about what I do (there are always exceptions) as well. So I care even less about the opinion of anonymous internet people.

Then again, I come from a tiny, tiny fandom. And yes, that fandom is Fire Emblem. Let me explain: I've started writing fanfiction in German. And there are whooping 62 Fire Emblem stories on ff.de. There were, I believe, less than 30 when I started. I am used to getting almost no reviews, because that is normal when almost two third of those stories (62) are written by me. There are maybe two or three active writers (I am excluding myself, because I haven't written anyhting in German for months). So I am reverse-spoilt. I'm used to getting no reviews.

I don't know if the people complaining about getting no reviews are used to get many or if they just complaining because. I don't really get it.

Anyway. I'll continue writing minor characters and family and sibling stories and gen and romance nobody cares about. Deal with it. <3

Comments

[xirysa.livejournal.com]

And yeah, awesome authors may get nearly no reviews while bad author are showered with them.

I like to think that it's because the masses clearly have no taste in good fiction. I mean, take a look at Twilight--terrible writing, but the author's showered with tons of praise! I don't get it.

[crimsonmorgan.livejournal.com]

Hn. I believe people have different reasons for reading what they're reading. Some people actually like stories like that, others just want to shut down and read something trivial, others want to laugh about the badness. I believe all three are legit reasons. And those people who genuinely like the book would say that it is good fiction. "Good" is just such a relative label that I am careful to apply it. What I find good, is rubbish to other people. There's even an example in my rambling. I find Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore incredibly boring. Other people say they're the best of the best. We just have different tastes and standards :/ And look for different things in fiction.

/rambling over now.