Well, that was about due.
I was hoping to get back to posting again after I get my gears running. Heck, with the tapering off a few years ago, I thought it would be earlier.
Anyway, the FFML was/is a nice place though as always in any community you'll have to have a bit of luck with the audience to get good responses. Plus, if your fic isn't exactly to anyone's taste they get open season to rip it apart. Posting to the FFML is like playing Russian Roullete with an unknown amount of barrels and an unknown number of bullets. And some of those bullets are dum-dums and some are made of chocolate.
I thank the gods that some of the stories I posted clicked with the right people and got them to provide good commentary. Otherwise, all you'll get is the "keep up the good work" ego fodder which is nice but won't exactly help in making the fic better. But the massaged ego is great. ^_^
Another good thing about the FFML is the higher minimum standard. Just imagine a majority of the FF.net authors posting on the FFML... hmmm, the smell of burning badfic authors. At the very least, they get broken, them or their bad habits, early before they spread.
Anyway, I'll just try to post a fic regularly after all the hubbub. I need some ego massaging. ^_^
I was hoping to get back to posting again after I get my gears running. Heck, with the tapering off a few years ago, I thought it would be earlier.
Anyway, the FFML was/is a nice place though as always in any community you'll have to have a bit of luck with the audience to get good responses. Plus, if your fic isn't exactly to anyone's taste they get open season to rip it apart. Posting to the FFML is like playing Russian Roullete with an unknown amount of barrels and an unknown number of bullets. And some of those bullets are dum-dums and some are made of chocolate.
I thank the gods that some of the stories I posted clicked with the right people and got them to provide good commentary. Otherwise, all you'll get is the "keep up the good work" ego fodder which is nice but won't exactly help in making the fic better. But the massaged ego is great. ^_^
Another good thing about the FFML is the higher minimum standard. Just imagine a majority of the FF.net authors posting on the FFML... hmmm, the smell of burning badfic authors. At the very least, they get broken, them or their bad habits, early before they spread.
Anyway, I'll just try to post a fic regularly after all the hubbub. I need some ego massaging. ^_^