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

[billy-shriner.livejournal.com]

okay, neither of you were rambling...you made perfect sense to me ;o)

I don't think I read enough fanfic to really comment. Mostly I read what's put on the ATSB, or as much as I can with time allows. (I always worry I'm choosing favourites, and I wanted to try and read everyone's on there..but it's not always possible) and JFM's...just because she had her own site, the writing and stories are great and she writes pretty much the kind of stories I like to read. But I've found a new website I need to work through ;o) (Finished Forest Primeval last night...will email you!) ...which is good, coz I've pretty much read all of JFM's work now lol!

I have read enough to know that there is some crap out there... even to the point I've thought, blimey, even I can write better than this. And I by no means think my writing is that good ;o) and constantly worry that my plots are weak!

I do tune out a bit on Slash.

[ostarella.livejournal.com]

Slash is something that I absolutely refused to read at first. In fact, the very first fanfic I read was slash, but I didn't know what that meant - what a shock! LOL But then I thought, well, I'll take a look. And there were quite a few really good stories, and some that were pretty good if you swept over the slashy parts (that's where they seemed to lose it), and others that were just crap. But lately, even the good authors in it seem to have gotten stuck in a rut - I read a couple recently from an author that's usually pretty good, and I could practically tell the story before I read it. :(