Requests: better than the trash can.
Apr. 21st, 2006 11:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icarusEvery 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*
- 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*
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Date: 2006-04-21 07:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-21 07:20 pm (UTC)- 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
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Date: 2006-04-21 07:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-27 11:10 am (UTC)Sometimes it's nice to get requests, but other times they just make me feel guilty.
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Date: 2006-04-27 04:50 pm (UTC)*sheepish*
Icarus