i give up on ff.net.

[iluvroadrunner6]

this does not mean i will stop using it, because it's pretty damn useful in keeping things together, but i just...give up.



it's more of the readers mostly. not saying all of them are bad, but i can't seem to get anything more than a squee related stuff from them. either that, or questions about things that i HAVE MADE CLEAR IN THE AUTHOR'S NOTES.

for example, i finally got the Don/Val, Eric/Angie and Angie-David fics i've been writing together and posted them up on ff.net. simple enough. i get an anon review from someone asking me if i knew that Don was David's boss. and not only did she (i'm assuming it's a she, the name was feminine) leave an anon review, she didn't even leave an e-mail address so that i could explain to her what i had clearly put in the author's notes.

that it was AU. and pre-series.

and not once did i ever imply that don and david were equals in the working sense (or, i don't think i did). but i do have Don working under someone (who i later kill) in the beginning of the fics. because not much is given about when Don came back to LA and started working there, so i took a little bit of creative liberties, came up with a bit of backstory.

while i do appreciate the few readers who actually read my work and give me more than just "omg so cute great story" (and some of my stuff warrants only that i will give it that much) when i signed up for ff.net the site said that this is a place for future writers to come and help hone their craft, and that concrit is encouraged. not be spammed by squee and get no pointers whatsoever.

and then there's the issues they have with getting alerts out for anything and everything, and i'm beginning to think more and more that ff.net is just a real joke. it makes me want to bang my head against a wall.

Comments

[iluvroadrunner6.livejournal.com]

readers give me a headache. not all of them, more so the ones who don't write themselves. and while i hate summarizing, i try to do the best i can. you could make the same effort.

kthanx.

[darkmagic-luvr.livejournal.com]

I know, but you're an amazing writer, and sometimes amazing writers can't write summaries. Do you write in your summary that you can't write them?

-x-liv

[iluvroadrunner6.livejournal.com]

no.

but then again i never saw the point of summaries to begin with. i understand that you'd like to know what you're going to be reading, but to me, that's what the pairing and the warnings and the ratings are for.

to me, anyway.

Your Answer

[darkmagic-luvr.livejournal.com]

No. No you don't tell the world you can't write summaries. you give the facts in your summaries, disclaimers,warnings, the whole shabang.You tell the reader everything they could want to know about what they're reading, that's a damn good summary to me. Summs it up quiet nicely.

-x-liv ♥

Re: Your Answer

[iluvroadrunner6.livejournal.com]

yes, but there are some points where i don't know how to summarize it right away, and i'm ready to just go forget this, and give them no summary at all.

especially when the title feels really self explanatory.

Re: Your Answer

[darkmagic-luvr.livejournal.com]

exactly.

I used to use lines from the story i'd write.

Re: Your Answer

[iluvroadrunner6.livejournal.com]

i did that too. and then i did song lyrics, and then i just gave up entirely and stuck to saying what happened.

on my more introspective pieces though, like for Stuff of Legends (http://iluvroadrunner6.livejournal.com/tag/stuff+of+legends) and stuff like that, i still use lines from the story. because that seems to say it better than anything else.