Truths of writing
Mar. 7th, 2018 07:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mme_hardyI got reminded on Thursday evening that I was overdue for a fic exchange and answered blankly that I hadn't signed up for it.
Turned out I had. Thanks, Lyrica!! I promised the fic for Saturday, cobbled together a start Friday, padded it out and polished the next day, and put that puppy up on AO3, supported by lots of handholding and beta fromothercat . This fic was not so much finished as abandoned (h/t Marianne Moore).
It currently has 125 hits and 20 kudos. I have never had a ratio this good on a fic so early in its life. Stuff I have slaved over, admiring every line, has gone down into the darkness, but this little throwaway has found love. It's in a juggernaut fandom, Homestuck, but I've written Homestuck fics before.
Everybody always says that how excited you are about a piece of writing and how excited the audience is don't necessarily correlate, but I hadn't seen it in action quite so forcefully. Need to remember this going forward.
Because otherwise people will ask in the comments, I'm linking.
round and round and round in the circle game Homestuck, John/Roxy, John/Terezi, fluff.
Turned out I had. Thanks, Lyrica!! I promised the fic for Saturday, cobbled together a start Friday, padded it out and polished the next day, and put that puppy up on AO3, supported by lots of handholding and beta from
othercat . This fic was not so much finished as abandoned (h/t Marianne Moore).It currently has 125 hits and 20 kudos. I have never had a ratio this good on a fic so early in its life. Stuff I have slaved over, admiring every line, has gone down into the darkness, but this little throwaway has found love. It's in a juggernaut fandom, Homestuck, but I've written Homestuck fics before.
Everybody always says that how excited you are about a piece of writing and how excited the audience is don't necessarily correlate, but I hadn't seen it in action quite so forcefully. Need to remember this going forward.
Because otherwise people will ask in the comments, I'm linking.
round and round and round in the circle game Homestuck, John/Roxy, John/Terezi, fluff.
