A rec from *you* is better than feedback. Better than most things in life, really. Just sayin'.
Wow. Really? Wow. That's intensely flattering to hear. Just...wow.
*blushes, blinks, re-reads the comment several more times*
Wow.
And I'm glad you're enjoying takethehouse - maybe next time you'll participate as a writer.
*snicker* Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Or, more seriously (hee!) - um, no. You don't, as host or participant, want that. Because I? Am not likely to be able to write the kind of stories recipients want. I did Yuletide (and likely will again) because the fandoms I volunteer to write have no fic in them, so I figure anything is better than nothing. But otherwise I avoid recipient-writer match challenges because I can't write the kinds of things people are hoping for. I can't, for example, write smut. (Slash or het, sure, fine, but my attempts at anything explicit read like extracts from Our Bodies, Ourselves. And that's the best-case scenario.) I also can't write angst or tear-jerkers or...well, lots of things. Most things, actually.
So it's much better for all concerned that I avoid matching-type FF challenges. And I have to keep reminding myself of that, because ones like takethehouse are so tempting. (takethehouse in particular was tough to resist, because I love this fandom, and it's relatively small, so I kept thinking, "But if I sign up, that will be one more Oceanverse story! That's good even if my story sucks!")
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Wow. Really? Wow. That's intensely flattering to hear. Just...wow.
*blushes, blinks, re-reads the comment several more times*
Wow.
And I'm glad you're enjoying
*snicker* Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Or, more seriously (hee!) - um, no. You don't, as host or participant, want that. Because I? Am not likely to be able to write the kind of stories recipients want. I did Yuletide (and likely will again) because the fandoms I volunteer to write have no fic in them, so I figure anything is better than nothing. But otherwise I avoid recipient-writer match challenges because I can't write the kinds of things people are hoping for. I can't, for example, write smut. (Slash or het, sure, fine, but my attempts at anything explicit read like extracts from Our Bodies, Ourselves. And that's the best-case scenario.) I also can't write angst or tear-jerkers or...well, lots of things. Most things, actually.
So it's much better for all concerned that I avoid matching-type FF challenges. And I have to keep reminding myself of that, because ones like