Oh noes!

[wiseheart]

Where has the time gone - again? picowrimo has arrived to mid-term, and I still haven't finished either the story I wanted to finish during pico, or the Torchwood AU that simply demanded to be written. I'm so close with both, but there is a lot of transition stuff that needs to be written to reach the actual goal... *sighs*

Of course, the heat weave and the resulting commplete exhaustion isn't helping. The wave itself broke yesterday, but I still haven't recovered and am basically useless, despite the fact that by the current temperatures I can at least sleep during the night.

I've come to realize that pico is basically the only forum that appreciates quality writing. That's probably because we're a bunch of struggling writers over there, trying to make our respective projects work. So we can really enjoy each other's excerpts, the work that's being put into a story, the little touches that make it more enjoyable... that sort of stuff.

Everywhere else I have very little chance to gain readers. People either want to read short, superficially written stuff bashing their least favourite character with the subtlety of a sledgehammer, or repetitive sex scenes featuring their OTP. I find the first of those way beneath my niveau and the second one simply boring.

That doesn't mean I won't envy the hundreds of gushing comments such drivel usually gets. I do. God only knows how much I do. I'm only human, after all.

Comments

[jsks.livejournal.com]

as i type i am melting in the heat wave that has hit the ne us coast. i am not sleeping and am walking around like a non brain eating zombie. need an an hour or two to feel human at work
while enjoying a bit of sledgehammer gwen bash fic and a good janto smutfest i find that there are a bit like cheesecake to much is not so good. for me a finely reserched and detailed plot that engages the brain are pure joys.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

There's nothing wrong with a good Janto smutfeast - I enjoy it occasionally, too. I'm just a bit depressed about how man people (save from you, dr_doomsduck, aviv_b and a handful of others) have no interest for anything else. It's discouraging when you put so much love and work and research in your writing and so very few people like it.

It's not a solely Torchwood phenomenon, either. I make the same experience in all my fandoms, and I'm writing in at least a dozen different ones from time to time. And yeah, I know most people are fed up with my whining, but, well, it bloody hurts sometimes.