Mindless rambling...

[ostarella]

Just taking a little break from my rewrites, and I was thinking about Forest, and I looked over at the ten stories I have over at ff.net. So strange. Forest is one of my personal favorites, along with the Randy set, but that doesn't seem to be the case over there. The hands down favorite is Neverness. Forest comes in at number 8; Changeling is dead last (and by a *huge* margin), and Mon Bell Ami is 6th. Covenant, thank goodness, has been coming in 2nd for some time now; I'm almost having a competition in my head between that and Neverness  :D

It's just odd, I guess. Thinking about what my favorites are, versus what readers (at least on ff.net) seem to prefer. And why they prefer the ones they do.

Makes one have a little more sympathy for publishers.  ;-)

Comments

[ostarella.livejournal.com]

Yeah, one has to consider the length. A lot of people either aren't interested in "epics" and others, like yourself, just haven't had time to sit down for a long read.

Summaries are something I really need to take more seriously, I think. Although I wonder how many people really read them other than to see if it's something they just don't want to read, like slash, or death fics, or something like that. I don't pay that much attention to them, myself, except for those kinds of things. I want to know if it's the type of story I'm in the mood for, I guess. But I think it's the first chapter that's more important - if people don't get "hooked" after reading that, they won't come back.

[billy-shriner.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's not that I don't like long stories...I do, but I need to know I have the time to read them ;o)

I think summaries are quite important. I do read them before reading a fic. Although saying that, I don't really read much fanfic other than that that goes on the ATSB (or on here now ;o)) Again, it's time!