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Old Picture Treasure
Sep. 26th, 2020 11:24 amThe last story I posted went over like a lead balloon, which does not surprise me since it's a bit on the longer side, and I posted it to an effectively dead fandom.
That doesn't mean that I am not a bit disappointed, since I felt like it was one of my better ones for all that. It has garnered a decent number of hits (for one of my stories, anyway), but no likes or comments from anyone other than my beta reader. I suspect it's because people get about 1/3 to 1/2 of the way through, roll their eyes and click out of it again. Oh well - I knew that was a risk when I was writing it.
It's possible that readers are put off by the fact that the story uses a different narrative voice for each division.
Or it might not be as good a story as I thought.
On an unrelated note, when I was checking my mail today, I noticed that I had folders set up by year from 2007 to 2015. I think the mail client created those itself, and I was curious about why it stopped at 2015, but also to see what it had filed in those folders.
When I checked the 2008 folder, I was delighted to find these three pictures in an email that I had apparently sent to myself from work. All three were drawn by an old friend in the Lion King fandom with whom I have long lost touch. A shame, really, because he was an extraordinarily nice person.
This is Jonathon Deer, from a dark, future dystopia that I wrote about when I was experimenting with a more serious style of writing. It was a very grim story on every level, and one for which I had long been intending to write a sequel, though I wrote a couple of other shorts set in the same story universe.
It's Plonq in his natural environment! I think that AO3 supports images, and I am tempted to add this to the big Plonq story I posted last year. In other news, in spite of that story having almost zero hits on AO3, I got a nice comment on it a couple of days ago.
It's Giblet from the Plonq story universe.
That doesn't mean that I am not a bit disappointed, since I felt like it was one of my better ones for all that. It has garnered a decent number of hits (for one of my stories, anyway), but no likes or comments from anyone other than my beta reader. I suspect it's because people get about 1/3 to 1/2 of the way through, roll their eyes and click out of it again. Oh well - I knew that was a risk when I was writing it.
It's possible that readers are put off by the fact that the story uses a different narrative voice for each division.
Or it might not be as good a story as I thought.
On an unrelated note, when I was checking my mail today, I noticed that I had folders set up by year from 2007 to 2015. I think the mail client created those itself, and I was curious about why it stopped at 2015, but also to see what it had filed in those folders.
When I checked the 2008 folder, I was delighted to find these three pictures in an email that I had apparently sent to myself from work. All three were drawn by an old friend in the Lion King fandom with whom I have long lost touch. A shame, really, because he was an extraordinarily nice person.
This is Jonathon Deer, from a dark, future dystopia that I wrote about when I was experimenting with a more serious style of writing. It was a very grim story on every level, and one for which I had long been intending to write a sequel, though I wrote a couple of other shorts set in the same story universe.
It's Plonq in his natural environment! I think that AO3 supports images, and I am tempted to add this to the big Plonq story I posted last year. In other news, in spite of that story having almost zero hits on AO3, I got a nice comment on it a couple of days ago.
It's Giblet from the Plonq story universe.
