And even more eggs

[wiseheart]

2 vintage variations and a purple one with silk roses:



On the other side of creativity, my stories aren't doing so grand on AO3. I'm used to have stories with more chapters than reviews, but I thing I'm heading towards a new low: stories with more chapters than hits. I think I'll disable the hit counter before the frustration gets to me too much.

Comments

[breannarose1.livejournal.com]

Beautiful!


re: I think interest in Fanfic, in general, is falling off since a) there doesn't seem to be too many new shows or movies that inspire any writers (which is odd since bad tv makes for great fanfic re-writes) and b) how much time has passed since show/movie was seen. Rather depressing as I'm just starting to find and read fanfic on a tv series from the 1990s.
What really gets me is how long some writers take to update their story. I get that real life takes priority, however even I have to stop waiting for an update after 4 years :(
Also, having an author promise that the story is complete or will be updated and no updates appear. Had to drop an interesting Ianto Lives stories after a promised posting never showed ("the story's complete" "it'll be posted soon" - Ha!)

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

bad tv makes for great fanfic re-writes

It is certainly true for Torchwood, for example. But for that formula to work, you need to get into the show in the first place, and I haven't found anything lately that could draw me in. Well, save for Lucifer, but I'm not really inspired to write fanfic for that.

As for unfinished tales, yeah, it can be frustrating. However, from the author's point of view, it isn't always a voluntary thing. I've got some stories that have been on hiatus for a decade or even longer, and while I honestly intend to finish them one day, inspiration has just not hit yet. That's why both "Atlantis Café" and "A Matter of Time" are temporarily finished, as the first, complete parts of a series that might never come to exist, as much as I want that to happen. The same is true for "Adventures of a Consulting Time Lord". I've got ideas for the next part and the one after that, but they're just that: ideas that I couldn't put into the right context yet.