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Smallville feedbackathon, day 2: ALL authors !
We continue our feedbackathon with another day celebrating writers in SV fandom, today focusing on ALL authors, not simply new ones. If you haven't finished making it through the list of new authors from yesterday , by all means keep doing that. But today is also a day to celebrate established authors in the fandom.
In my head, I'm calling today procrastinator's day, because it is the day when I'm going to send feedback on all those stories that I always meant to send feedback on but somehow never did. I'm sure this never happens to you, gentle readers, but sometimes I enjoy a story very much, but end up never sending feedback, because
(A) it is posted in an archive, and it takes my mail client a hundred years to open up, when I'm reading at home, and I think "oh, I'll just send feedback later"--and then I never do.
Or:
(B) it's such a massively long and wonderfully written story that I want to send feedback that is worthy of it, you know? But I can't really think of anything coherent at the moment, and so once again I think "I'll send this later", and I never do.
Or:
(C) I really actually did mean to send feedback, but real life became insanely crazy and I never got around to it.
Or:
(D) it was posted a long time ago, and I'm embarrassed that I never got around to sending feedback on it, and so I put it off even longer.
And you know what? I know authors love getting feedback on stories, even if it's only one line saying "I loved it," even if it's months or years later--because I've had lots of authors tell me this. But sometimes I feel shy and just need to be reminded.
So, gentle reader, if any of the above describes you: CONSIDER YOURSELF REMINDED. Trust me, the author is not going to think, "wow, what a stupid piece of feedback," or "gee, how dumb is this person to be sending me feedback 2 years after posting the story." No, the author is going to feel like her day has been brightened out of the blue, and may even dance around with glee. Honestly. (Authors, feel free to testify about this in comments).
Now, for those of you out there who always send feedback on stories you love, and therefore have no back feedback to catch up on, you rock! You get one million karma points. As a reward, feel free to go in search of new stories to feedback today. May I suggest the random story generator, at SSA? (There are also random story generators at Level Three and Wild Coyote ). These have given me hours of joy, finding stories I've never read before. You might also try some rec sites;![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
svmadelyn has an terrific list of Smallville rec sites here , and don't forget to check out her amazing recommendations when you are on that page. I've also done a number of recommendation lists for SV; you can find them here and here.
Feel free to recommend your favorite author, or a specific story by her/him, in the comments. Also, authors feel free to do some self-promotion there as well.
And p.s., can I just say that all you folks promoting the feedbackathon are AWESOME! I'm overwhelmed with all the feedback-y love on my flist. You make me very happy.
We continue our feedbackathon with another day celebrating writers in SV fandom, today focusing on ALL authors, not simply new ones. If you haven't finished making it through the list of new authors from yesterday , by all means keep doing that. But today is also a day to celebrate established authors in the fandom.
In my head, I'm calling today procrastinator's day, because it is the day when I'm going to send feedback on all those stories that I always meant to send feedback on but somehow never did. I'm sure this never happens to you, gentle readers, but sometimes I enjoy a story very much, but end up never sending feedback, because
(A) it is posted in an archive, and it takes my mail client a hundred years to open up, when I'm reading at home, and I think "oh, I'll just send feedback later"--and then I never do.
Or:
(B) it's such a massively long and wonderfully written story that I want to send feedback that is worthy of it, you know? But I can't really think of anything coherent at the moment, and so once again I think "I'll send this later", and I never do.
Or:
(C) I really actually did mean to send feedback, but real life became insanely crazy and I never got around to it.
Or:
(D) it was posted a long time ago, and I'm embarrassed that I never got around to sending feedback on it, and so I put it off even longer.
And you know what? I know authors love getting feedback on stories, even if it's only one line saying "I loved it," even if it's months or years later--because I've had lots of authors tell me this. But sometimes I feel shy and just need to be reminded.
So, gentle reader, if any of the above describes you: CONSIDER YOURSELF REMINDED. Trust me, the author is not going to think, "wow, what a stupid piece of feedback," or "gee, how dumb is this person to be sending me feedback 2 years after posting the story." No, the author is going to feel like her day has been brightened out of the blue, and may even dance around with glee. Honestly. (Authors, feel free to testify about this in comments).
Now, for those of you out there who always send feedback on stories you love, and therefore have no back feedback to catch up on, you rock! You get one million karma points. As a reward, feel free to go in search of new stories to feedback today. May I suggest the random story generator, at SSA? (There are also random story generators at Level Three and Wild Coyote ). These have given me hours of joy, finding stories I've never read before. You might also try some rec sites;
svmadelyn has an terrific list of Smallville rec sites here , and don't forget to check out her amazing recommendations when you are on that page. I've also done a number of recommendation lists for SV; you can find them here and here.Feel free to recommend your favorite author, or a specific story by her/him, in the comments. Also, authors feel free to do some self-promotion there as well.
And p.s., can I just say that all you folks promoting the feedbackathon are AWESOME! I'm overwhelmed with all the feedback-y love on my flist. You make me very happy.
