Well, I've done it.
Jul. 11th, 2007 02:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rabidsamfanThanks everyone, for the input. I decided to break the story into four parts, and last night I went ahead and posted, knowing that the next couple of weeks are likely to be intensely on the Harry Potter side of the Force. I'm still not quite happy with the last line, but I can fix that...
The story is here, if anyone is interested. It's a New Avengers story where Purdey and Gambit first meet, based on a pre-series publicity picture and a comment Gambit made in the very first episode. I also brought in a character who shows up (very briefly) in a different episode, which was fun, but a bit angsty, since he kicks the bucket canonically.
Don't get me wrong -- I think ff.n does fandom a great service. It gives new authors a way to get out there, for one thing, and is a great place to dabble ones toes in the water.
But the limitations that are put on the files make me nuts. I couldn't even figure out how to tell the computer that I wanted extra line breaks between paragraphs to show point-of-view/time shifts, so I ended up using way too many horizontal lines.
It also frightens me to notice that, in a fandom as tiny as New Avengers, I'd had a bakers dozen of hits on the first chapter within two hours and two hardy souls had opened every chapter. It's slowed down since -- I'm not quite up to fifty hits total at the moment and some of those are my collaborator -- but still... are there people who do nothing but click on the "just in" story list over there? Or is this "spiders" or "web-bots"? No reviews yet -- the ratio of hits to reviews is always discouraging (often 1/100 or more) unless you think fondly of re-readers -- so there's no way to tell.
Hmmm.
*dives back into reading "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"*
The story is here, if anyone is interested. It's a New Avengers story where Purdey and Gambit first meet, based on a pre-series publicity picture and a comment Gambit made in the very first episode. I also brought in a character who shows up (very briefly) in a different episode, which was fun, but a bit angsty, since he kicks the bucket canonically.
Don't get me wrong -- I think ff.n does fandom a great service. It gives new authors a way to get out there, for one thing, and is a great place to dabble ones toes in the water.
But the limitations that are put on the files make me nuts. I couldn't even figure out how to tell the computer that I wanted extra line breaks between paragraphs to show point-of-view/time shifts, so I ended up using way too many horizontal lines.
It also frightens me to notice that, in a fandom as tiny as New Avengers, I'd had a bakers dozen of hits on the first chapter within two hours and two hardy souls had opened every chapter. It's slowed down since -- I'm not quite up to fifty hits total at the moment and some of those are my collaborator -- but still... are there people who do nothing but click on the "just in" story list over there? Or is this "spiders" or "web-bots"? No reviews yet -- the ratio of hits to reviews is always discouraging (often 1/100 or more) unless you think fondly of re-readers -- so there's no way to tell.
Hmmm.
*dives back into reading "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"*
