A Confession...
May. 12th, 2003 10:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icarusI admit it, I would love to be a BNF.
Wouldn't that mean that people like my stories, read them, and tell other people to read them?
Better yet, wouldn't that mean that people feel 'obligated' to read my stories because they've heard so much about them?
Shit. That would be great!
Given that's the case, this test (which I am only daring because![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mctabby asked us to, for the sake of TWIB fic research) promises to be embarrassing:
1. They get name dropped.
Um. No.
2. Disproportionate influence over what is written in the fandom.
Well. People wrote a lot of smut for the Restricted Section (RS.org) sleazy fic drive. But that has more to do with the popularity RS.org than me.
I have one writer who sends me reviews like mad, and then seems to copycat my stories as soon as they come out. It's rather odd, doesn't seem deliberate, but rather they enjoyed the stories so much they wrote their own version. They're quite good, too, and I'm flattered and pleased. So if fandom = one person, then... LOL
3. Websites.
Okay, a couple of friends,resonant8 and others, were sick of picking around for my stuff and insisted I get one, strictly for their convenience.
4. Recs and fawning.
I do get recs, and a lot of reviews. However, my own statistics have demonstrated that everyone gets about a 2% review rate on novel-length stories. So that's simply a factor of promoting the story.
5. They know other BNFs.
Know them? No. Well. A couple. I think. It's hard to say, because they all insist they aren't BNFs and don't want to be.
But I have been reviewed by BNFs fairly consistently, and that I value. Because for the most part, the BNFs (at least the ones I'm sure are BNFs) are kick-ass writers. No, they may not be forwarding the Arte du Literature. But hell -- they can tell a ripping good yarn.
And that is the point of it all, isn't it?
Result: status as BNFs' occasional flavour-of-the-week 'pet' confirmed. Purrrr....
Wouldn't that mean that people like my stories, read them, and tell other people to read them?
Better yet, wouldn't that mean that people feel 'obligated' to read my stories because they've heard so much about them?
Shit. That would be great!
Given that's the case, this test (which I am only daring because
mctabby asked us to, for the sake of TWIB fic research) promises to be embarrassing:1. They get name dropped.
Um. No.
2. Disproportionate influence over what is written in the fandom.
Well. People wrote a lot of smut for the Restricted Section (RS.org) sleazy fic drive. But that has more to do with the popularity RS.org than me.
I have one writer who sends me reviews like mad, and then seems to copycat my stories as soon as they come out. It's rather odd, doesn't seem deliberate, but rather they enjoyed the stories so much they wrote their own version. They're quite good, too, and I'm flattered and pleased. So if fandom = one person, then... LOL
3. Websites.
Okay, a couple of friends,
resonant8 and others, were sick of picking around for my stuff and insisted I get one, strictly for their convenience.4. Recs and fawning.
I do get recs, and a lot of reviews. However, my own statistics have demonstrated that everyone gets about a 2% review rate on novel-length stories. So that's simply a factor of promoting the story.
5. They know other BNFs.
Know them? No. Well. A couple. I think. It's hard to say, because they all insist they aren't BNFs and don't want to be.
But I have been reviewed by BNFs fairly consistently, and that I value. Because for the most part, the BNFs (at least the ones I'm sure are BNFs) are kick-ass writers. No, they may not be forwarding the Arte du Literature. But hell -- they can tell a ripping good yarn.
And that is the point of it all, isn't it?
Result: status as BNFs' occasional flavour-of-the-week 'pet' confirmed. Purrrr....