Requests: better than the trash can.

[icarus]

Every now and then I get requests. I have a few approaches to requests:

- Requests for stories, pairings, etc., I listen to. If they spark a new fic I write it down in my notes, and often credit the requestor. Sometimes the idea rumbles and it's six months or a year before anything comes of it.

- Requests for sequels, updates... surprisingly, that's very effective. I get the usual pang of guilt, yes, but if the request is accompanied by a review it renews my interest in the story, draws my attention to it. I pick up steam when people tell me they're interested. Which, okay, 90% of the time doesn't produce another part of the fic. But there's always that rare 10%.

- Requests that I do things that are painful and difficult for me (running a Fic-A-Thon, website changes to Percyness, etc., etc.) all get a standard, "Heck, I don't have time. But if you'd like to do the staggering amount of work involved -- go for it!"

Oddly, if the project's a real pain in the ass, I don't get a lot of volunteers. In fact usually (although they were quick to ask me to do it) I don't hear back at all.

*smirks*

Comments

[lillian78.livejournal.com]

I'd request John/Rodney every day five times a day if you'd continue to write in that fandom. *bats eyelashes*

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I'm actually having trouble keeping up with the ideas. I now have three stories rolling at the same time:

- The "John screws up" Gen story
- The skating!fic (can't wait to work on this this weekend)
- The long, long, long porn story (and by that I mean that 90% of the story is the sex, in very explicit detail)

I'd better keep up.

Icarus

[lillian78.livejournal.com]

Need I say I love the skating fic, but the 90% sex story sounds just about right for the two of them. Heh.