Write Every Day: 04 November 02019

[silveradept]

Greetings! This is the Write Every Day Check-In Post for 4 November 02019.

A lot got done today, which is why I'm feeling somewhat run-down physically. Thank you to all of you that answered yesterday's question about exchange letters. As with many things, it turns out we all do it our own way, and that's the best way that works for us. I'm looking forward to receiving the assignment and going to work on it.

I got a couple of nice comments on old fic and new fic all the same, which is heartening. As December approaches, I'm going to start looking at my counts of various things and come to the conclusion that the Miraculous Ladybug fandom is singlehandedly responsible for a significant amount of my kudos count. Which is good, in that it's a big fandom, and big fandoms have lots of kudos to give. It also helps me put in perspective some things that start to creep in around writing - some things will have low hits and kudos counts, but they'll have great comments and people really enjoyed them. And exchange writing, it seems, tends toward smaller counts of everything, perhaps because there's not a lot of people who find it after the anonymity period is done.

Or maybe I'm just weird and multifannish and taking a little bit from everywhere instead of concentrating in a big fandom until it dies out or the stories all get told, and then moving on to a new space. (It might also be that I don't have a Tumblr, since that still seems to be where a lot of fannish energy is, even after the crackdown.)

Today, in writing, I put a few more words down on an assignment, getting it to a position right before the fun really begins. And by "fun," I mean "a person is going to have something happen to them that they're going to continually dismiss as coincidence or other factors, because their belief that the thing could do what it's doing is nil."

Here's the tally so far:

Day One: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, bladespark, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, ofmonstrouswords, sanguinity, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Day Two: alexcat, alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, bladespark, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, ofmonstrouswords, redsixwing, sakana17, sanguinity, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, teigh_corvus, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Day Three: alexseanchai, auroracloud, azurelunatic, bladespark, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, redsixwing, sakana17, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, st_aurafina, sylvanwitch, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Day Four: alexseanchai, azurelunatic, bladespark, carenejeans, chanter1944, china_shop, cornerofmadness, lferion, nafs, redsixwing, sanguinity, sierranovembr, silveradept, sylvanwitch, umadoshi, yasaman, ysilme

Comments

[sanguinity]

Nov. 4: wrote.

In my experience, the niche fic gets the most ardent love, because the people who wanted that exact fic count themselves very fortunate to have gotten it, and want to make sure you know your efforts are appreciated. I'd keep on writing niche fic anyway, because I write them as much for me as for anyone, but those heartfelt comments mean a lot.

[silveradept]

The heartfelt comments and the giant squee really do help make it a good exercise. I love a good comment, but I'm surprised in the amounts of kudos some of my work is collecting over time. I think it's a function of the size of the fandom, sometimes.