For all my complaints, I suddenly miss ffnet...

[valis2]

I've just completed chapter 57...and I'm very happy. I uploaded it last night to SH and faorg. FFnet is still having problems, unfortunately.

Usually I receive instant gratification because it is up and on ffnet after only 15 minutes or so, and I get three or four reviews there relatively quickly. Then within 24 hrs I get a few reviews on SH, and within 48-72 hours I generally get five or six reviews on faorg. Right now I'm waiting for it to be validated, so I won't see any reviews for a little bit, and I suddenly realized what makes me like ffnet so much...it really is the quick reply to whatever I've written. I can usually look forward to three days of reviews...okay, enough whining. I just hope that they can get it all together and figure it out.

Chapter 57 turned out to be the biggest chapter of them all...3,000 words. I know that's nothing to junediamanti and mariannelee, but for me it's something to shout about. I agonized over a lot in this chapter too. I hate having to write without an outline...somehow I ended up with a week of nothing on my outline, and now I have to flesh it out without a framework. I threw in a new plot twist which is likely to cause a teeny bit of surprise, but I'm still trying to regain my footing. Chapter 58 will be one of those rare fun chapters...I am eager to write it, as there will be a bit of comedy in it. Can't write everything dark, depressing, and meaningful, or it just gets campy after awhile, I think. Though some people can do it. See, I love melodrama...love it love it love it, and I have to remember to tone it down, because it becomes laughable if the dial is set too high.

I have been wondering what happens when a WIP is finally finished...I've been wondering if there is a small segment of the fandom that waits for WIPs to be finished before they read them, and whether there are many of these in the SS/OC fandom. Hey, webbapettigrew, if you're reading, did you find you received an extra bunch of reviews just after you finished parts of the Devil's series? Anyone else see a sudden spike after they finished a long WIP?

I'm also trying to decide if I want to do a little PR work...I was thinking about finding a few relevant comms and attempting to write up a little summary to drum up a bit of interest. Hmmm.

Finally received my 200th review on ffnet...up to 450+ on faorg, though at least eighty are mine, signalling new chapters and please review here...43 on SH...and it looks like I have 31 people getting updates on ffnet, about 150-200 reading each chapter on faorg, and 80-90 on SH...I'm very pleased so far with the level of reviews.

Okay, enough whining, and babbling about reviews.

Comments

[webbapettigrew.livejournal.com]

Personally, I didn't see a spike when I finished "Dilemma", but I did have spikes on certain chapters. Without giving away spoilers, in chapter 24 of "Dilemma" something happens that nobody would have ever expected and it turned out to be much more controversial that I thought It'd be, and I got tons of reviews on that chapter, whereas the next one, you could almost hear the lone wolf howling in the distance...nobody seemed to care! :-D

[valis2.livejournal.com]

Very, very interesting. I've seen something similar...I had a couple chapters with a lot of action that saw 15 or so reviews...but most chapters range from 3-8 for each archive.