SV feedbackathon day 1: new authors

[norwich36]

The Smallville feedbackathon is here!

The feedbackathon is an eight-day celebration of everyone who gives us fannish joy. All you need to do to participate is send feedback to someone in Smallville fandom who has enriched your fannish experience somehow, with their stories, art, icons, vids, meta, livejournal posts, or other activities in support of the fandom. So go forth and feedback! If you'd like, take one of our official icons (though that is certainly not required.)

I'll be posting suggestions every day for the benefit of those who like a little structure in their feedbackathon. So the theme for today is: Encourage a new author .

New authors in a fandom do not necessarily get a lot of attention, and sometimes getting positive feedback from a few people makes the difference between those authors who stay in the fandom, continue writing and become our new favorite authors, and those who get discouraged and stop writing or leave fandom.

This is not to say that the search for new authors to encourage is an entirely unselfish act--I myself am making my way through the list below, and I've already found three amazing stories I haven't read before. And I've barely started!

So where do you find these new authors?

Here are lists compiled from the Wild Coyote, Level Three, and Smallville Slash Archives. My scientific method involved writing down all the authors who've posted a story within the past year and then cross-checking to see who *hadn't* posted a story before last year. I may have inadvertantly included a few folks who've been writing in the fandom longer but only recently archived their stories, but I couldn't figure out a more efficient way to do this.

The new authors at Wild Coyote (the het archive) were :

Ferd, Irish guy, June, Katie, Letia, Miss D, Niping, onelittlesleep, snarky1

The new authors at Level Three (the gen and all-pairing archive) were:

Darkwing Duck, Glacis, June, Letia, Ni Ping

The new authors at the Smallville Slash Archive were:

amberjack, Anita, annakas, Antigone, Audra Rose, Ballistic Liz, Belladonna, Bellat, Betsanne, bitchy grrl, chimosa, ciaan, clarkoholic, clexAddict, colored ink, dehc, Devin, Ditzy, Eletryxx, Erynn, Fan_Spagle, Fancyspinner, HRD, JMA, Kate Lewis, keikokin, kHo, knightmare, Lasha, LBM, lilibel, lostmarble, Magdelena, Mindige), MorrPhyc, Polexen, Psychi, Rise Again Phoenix, sc182, Shadowstar, shattered, slash bunny, Smallvilles Girl, Sori, Sorrel, Sterling Dragonfly, Supercaptain182, Super Woobie, Suture, toadstoolsmiles, trieduntrue, Vivian Darkbloom, Yevgenie

The new authors recommended by folks on my f-list were
allzugern, whose stories are here
audrarose, whose story is here.
bop_radar, whose story is here .
carcassi, whose stories are here and here.
theclexfactor, whose first story is here and whose icon-stories are here.
chimosa, whose stories are here .
coloredink, whose stories are here.
EllenF, who posts on her blog here .
estrella30, whose stories are here.
khohen1, whose stories are here .
kristiinthedark, whose stories are here.
lexsbabymama, whose stories are here.
mskatej, whose stories are here.
robynadele0406, whose stories are at K-site. You can find one of them here .
sadiekate, whose stories are here.
sori1773, whose stories are here .
stir_of_echoes, whose stories are here .
strlngdragonfly, whose stories are here .
supercaptain182, whose stories are here .
teot, whose stories are here .
toadstoolsmiles, whose stories are here.
voldything, whose stories are here .
(I know there is some overlap with the lists above, but since not all of the stories by these authors are posted on the archives, I decided not to worry about duplication).

A couple recommended new authors whose fanfic is posted at other places are:

kdsch123, whose stories are here: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1018002/
Lucy Wiggin, whose stories are here: http://www.fanfiction.net/u/198088/


Know a new author who's not on this list and should be? Comment, and I will add them. Feel free to promote yourself!

So, what are you waiting for? Go send some feedback!

Comments

[althea-astrea.livejournal.com]

I'm sending lot's of feedback to herohunter, I know she's not a new writer, but since I just joined this LJ world yesterday, I didn't know her...

I'll try to check one of the authors you proposed, though. I'm enjoying this very much!! :)

[sadface.livejournal.com]

Weeee! It's so exciting! I will go forth and comment. YAY.

Seriously, you're a peach for doing this. *hugs*

[myownghost.livejournal.com]

i think this is great! i'll work on feedback later on this morning. :)

[skuf.livejournal.com]

I couldn't quite decide whether to mention allzugern, since technically she started the story in 2004. But I thin she is sort of new, so I'm nominating her!

Her fics (or fic + sequel) are here: http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=allzugern&keyword=Smallville+Fiction&filter=all

[yavannauk.livejournal.com]

Yay, thanks to this list I found a Clex author I didn't know and feedback has been duly given! Woot!

[voldything.livejournal.com]

You're awesome for doing this! Yay you!

[rakshanda.livejournal.com]

LJ person audrarose is new, but has only one fic I found, Transition (http://www.audrarose.com/Transition.html)

[cinderella81.livejournal.com]

I am a semi new author .... I have four fics on the SSA under Smallvilles Girl :)

But, supercaptian182 and toadstoolsmiles have really awesome fics!

[coloredink.livejournal.com]

I woke up this morning to feedback for some of my older stories and had no idea what was going on. Then I was led back here! So. Um. Thank you!

[digitalwave]

This is a wonderful thing that you're doing here, sweetie. It's always good to spread all of the support that we can around.

*hugs*

[clexzone.livejournal.com]

I chose theclexfactor for my feedback. I know all her drawings but not her fic (it's a shame because I love what she writes).
Your feedbackathon rocks!!

One little problem!

[althea-astrea.livejournal.com]

Ok, so I pic lexsbabymama from the list above and went to her LJ. Read a fic and tried to post feedback, but, only friends can comment on her LJ!!!

I friended her so I could comment on her LJ, but... how do I get her to friend me back??

[ciaan]

I sent feedback emails. I tend to comment when I read something on LJ, but I basically never do if it's on an archive. So I emailed about one story by someone off that list that I had read previously but not replied to, and another email to someone I'd never heard of before.

[blisstasteful.livejournal.com]

urgh!
the feedbackathon has stolen my sleep!
just got so caught up in all the new fics, you're an evil genius sweetie!
you should make this an annual event!

[barbaragray1212.livejournal.com]

I have got to send love to HEROHUNTER. What happened to her is just not on.

Thanks, Norwich!

[tasabian.livejournal.com]

This is a very nice idea - and much appreciated by a newbie writer like myself! Thanks, Norwich!

Vivian Darkbloom

[treetracer]

Wow, lotsa new folks. *bookmarks* Thanks for doing this!

[(Anonymous)]

It would be nice if people would send feedback to authors who don't have lj's. It's very discouraging to post a story on SSA and get 2-3 comments. Or none. Of course, that might just be because I suck, but I don't think that's it. SV is so lj-based that those of us without them are wandering around in the dark, lost and alone. I don't write for feedback, but it's sure wonderful to get it.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you! That's a very sweet offer to make to an anonymous. As soon as I figure out lj, I'll take you up on it. ps I'm not a new author, I'm an old, not very prolific one.

[allzugern.livejournal.com]

Hey, thanks for the pimp and for the great resource! You are making our jobs at the sv_ledger so much easier :-)

Thanks!

[(Anonymous)]

Hey, thanks for listing me. How nice to see that someone recommended me:-).

EllenF

[fan-spagle.livejournal.com]

I have to say that I tried to write for this fandom. I maybe got one or two comments on LJ and one on SSA. I have actually taken others off my LJ because no one sent any feedback at all.

I have written three huge clex novellas that I have never posted because I worked so hard on them and it would break my heart when no one sent any feedback...maybe it's because I'm not a very good writer, but it's hard to keep writing when it seems no one cares to read it.

[kdsch123.livejournal.com]

I hope a heartfelt thank you is never actually 'late'. I just wanted to say how much I appreciated being included this year in the Feedbackathon! The tardiness in my gratitude is because I just pretty much discovered I'd been included!! Thank you, thank you!! (And I've friended you, too!!)

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