In this fandom a fic is usually buried after a day and the number of clicks until then tells you where it is at. But it is worse. In this fandom, they have a feature I despise: Downvotes. So it isn’t just crickets, it is people just saying the story sucks by downvoting it. Granted ny fic has only one down vote and only one upvote but this is a fandom where a successful story usually has 40 upvotes fairly fast and people won’t click on a story doing poorly up front.
It isn’t as bad as it could be because people in the fandom can be even crueler and add docs to groups for “worst fics ever” and other such awfully named groups. People even comment to say they put the fics in those groups which I have seen on fics that aren’t even bad. So I didn’t have that at least.
Still, this fic will be buried quickly and out of people’s sight so I would say it is just a lot of unappreciated hard work. I want to not care, but I do. Maybe because I was so proud and excited by the story. Just once I want to be successful and 22 years of fic writing and I still haven’t figured it out.
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Date: 2017-11-20 03:42 am (UTC)It isn’t as bad as it could be because people in the fandom can be even crueler and add docs to groups for “worst fics ever” and other such awfully named groups. People even comment to say they put the fics in those groups which I have seen on fics that aren’t even bad. So I didn’t have that at least.
Still, this fic will be buried quickly and out of people’s sight so I would say it is just a lot of unappreciated hard work. I want to not care, but I do. Maybe because I was so proud and excited by the story. Just once I want to be successful and 22 years of fic writing and I still haven’t figured it out.