Sorry for the delay...

[wiseheart]

I really, honestly inteded to write some more about our wonderful trip, but I'm still trying to catch up with everything that has happened during my absence. Plus, I thought posting the next installment of the Torchwood Wedding story and uploading some stuff to make it available on FF.Net was more urgent. I shouldn't have bothered, honestly. It really doesn't matter when it gets mostly ignored, save the faithful three or four people who actually do read it. :(

In any case, heat wave is depressing, school has restarted (even though without the kids, for the time being), the flat is a mess, but at least I've managed to get some writing done. Not much, but since it's mostly a l'art pour l'art act - it isn't so as if my fans would break my door down for the next update - I'm vaguely pleased with myself.

I've caught up with some of my favourite Merlin and Torchwood stories - it was actually an intelligent move to put them to story alert, considering the fact how flooded both fandoms are with poorly written, mediocre shit that gets enthusiastic welcome - and I'm just about to move on to Stories of Arda where there are some long-ongoing train wrecks I cannot resist reding. Again, the sort that gets enthusiastic welcome.

Well, yeah, life is unfair, but at least I'm having fun. Sometimes.

OTOH, I'm currently re-watching Alien Nation - thanks the_wild_iris to hunt it down for me! - and am still amazed how excellent that show still is. C'mon folks,it's been decades, and it's still 300% better than anything current television comes up with in the sci-fi category.

Comments

[jsks.livejournal.com]

sorry about the lack of reviews i finally have full internet back after over 9 days without.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Believe me, I know the feeling. I was without internet for 11 days, I felt like an amputated limb. ;)

No need to apologize, I knew you would come back sooner or later. You're one of the faithful few, actually. *hugs*

[aviv-b.livejournal.com]

I love your stories! Some people just don't know quality. I can't remember - do you post your stories on AGA? If you don't, you should!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I post update alerts and link every new chapter - for all the good that it brings me. At least I can reach you and a handful other people tht way.

[aviv-b.livejournal.com]

Do you ever look at the number of people who come to your journal? Lots of people read but don't want to comment or if you restrict comments then people without journals can't. I never got more than a handful of comments for my Treachery series (the same 10 -15 people every chapter) but the pdf has been downloaded over 100 times. So you never know.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I don't restrict comments... and have no idea where to look for the numbers.

[aviv-b.livejournal.com]

I think this is only available if you have a paid account. Go to your home page, click profile and choose stats/myguests. You can see how many people view your pages from anywhere on LJ, and how many actually come to your journal.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Oh, I see. Thanks.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

Sounds like a very good idea to put stories on alert - digging through ff.net is very depressing in most fandoms, but there do seem to be good stories there that aren't elsewhere.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Usually, if I find an author whose writing I like, I put them on author alert. Most of them write in more than one fandom, and that way I can track various sorts of good stuff.

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry you don't get more reviews as you are an excellent storyteller. I agree the quality on ff.net is dire, but SOA is supposed to be quality. It took me a long time to get accepted! I agree I find some of the stories boring, but then any LOTR story without Aragorn usually sends me to sleep!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Quite frankly, I've seen a lot of poorly-written, grammatically insulting stuff on SoA, too. Or well-written, grammatically correct (as far as I can tell) but pretentious and annoying stuff. The train wrecks I've been following for quite some time belongs to the latter sort: interesting premise, but overblown, condescending and in some parts downright off-putting. I still can't stop reading them, not even after 100-plus merciless chapters, because a) I'm not the person who quits easily, and b)I really want to know how they end.

I used to like Aragorn, but then the movies came. I no longer despise him as much as I did after the first movie, but I'm afraid both him and Galadriel are ruined for me, forever.

[lhun-dweller.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear that it's so hot and that folks aren't reviewing. And school has started, too? [sigh]

The university where I work starts classes 5 September. I don't teach, so not a big thing for me, but it does mean more folks will be around again soon, getting ready to teach.

Just now, however, we are having a hurricane. The first bands of heavey rain are here -- the Earthpig and I got wet walking half a block.

The few bits of Alien Nation I saw I did like. It seemed pretty innovative and very much focused on the cross-cultural issues, which I enjoyed. I liked that there were both human "groupies" and human bigots, the full range of human responses to strangers.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

A hurricane? Yikes! Try to stay safe, will you?