So, it was you who wrote that wonderful third review? I was most touched by it, honestly, and not knowing who had gifted it upon me did bother me a bit. I've known Dwim for quite some time - we have some sort of mutual respect for each other but no personal closeness - and I know Imhiriel by name, but I couldn't recognize you by that other name. I'm glad that my little things give you such enjoyment. We all write for our readers, after all. :))
Re: categories Yeah, it's always a sorry thing with me and categories. I have a hard time to match any, particularly because I write a wide variety of Tolkienfic. Most people are interested in Elves. Or hobbits. Or Men of Gondor. Or slash. Or hate slash passionately. And when an author cannot be put into one of these categories exclusively, people have a hard time to accept him/her.
It's a sort of ghetto thinking that appears in other fandoms as well. In the Atlantis fandom, particularly, the followers of certain slash or het pairings isolate themselves in small groups and breathe fire on other small groups. In the Tolkien fandom, it might not be quite as bad, but LOTR authors and Silmficcers still count as two completely different kind, and there were times when it was really ugly.
Re: author ranking Personally, I find it insulting, even though I got honourable mentioned there, too. IMO, popularity doesn't make anyone a better author. I only know Isabeau out of the winners, and I know she's good and deserves it, but declaring that X is better as Y or Z, just because more people seem to like their stuff is, well, a bit... I don't know what it is, but it irks me very much. I never had more than a handful of very loyal readers (you are one of those few), but does it make me a worse author than those who got more gushing reviwes for a chapter than I can hope for an entire series? I don't think so. Even though I'm struggling with the fact that I have to write in a third language.
Re: Madenn I think you got it just right. "Kinswoman" was a give-away, wasn't it? And Imloth Melui, I think. I wonder who else will figure it out.
Thanks for dropping by. And thanks for the support you've been given me all these years. It's an encouragement I sorely need whenever I get the feeling that nobody cares for my stories anymore.
Re: MEFA musings, and Madenn
So, it was you who wrote that wonderful third review? I was most touched by it, honestly, and not knowing who had gifted it upon me did bother me a bit. I've known Dwim for quite some time - we have some sort of mutual respect for each other but no personal closeness - and I know Imhiriel by name, but I couldn't recognize you by that other name. I'm glad that my little things give you such enjoyment. We all write for our readers, after all. :))
Re: categories
Yeah, it's always a sorry thing with me and categories. I have a hard time to match any, particularly because I write a wide variety of Tolkienfic. Most people are interested in Elves. Or hobbits. Or Men of Gondor. Or slash. Or hate slash passionately. And when an author cannot be put into one of these categories exclusively, people have a hard time to accept him/her.
It's a sort of ghetto thinking that appears in other fandoms as well. In the Atlantis fandom, particularly, the followers of certain slash or het pairings isolate themselves in small groups and breathe fire on other small groups. In the Tolkien fandom, it might not be quite as bad, but LOTR authors and Silmficcers still count as two completely different kind, and there were times when it was really ugly.
Re: author ranking
Personally, I find it insulting, even though I got honourable mentioned there, too. IMO, popularity doesn't make anyone a better author. I only know Isabeau out of the winners, and I know she's good and deserves it, but declaring that X is better as Y or Z, just because more people seem to like their stuff is, well, a bit... I don't know what it is, but it irks me very much. I never had more than a handful of very loyal readers (you are one of those few), but does it make me a worse author than those who got more gushing reviwes for a chapter than I can hope for an entire series? I don't think so. Even though I'm struggling with the fact that I have to write in a third language.
Re: Madenn
I think you got it just right. "Kinswoman" was a give-away, wasn't it? And Imloth Melui, I think. I wonder who else will figure it out.
Thanks for dropping by. And thanks for the support you've been given me all these years. It's an encouragement I sorely need whenever I get the feeling that nobody cares for my stories anymore.