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A Lonely fic
Mar. 18th, 2020 10:16 pmSometimes a story resonates with people and you get a lot of readers/feedback. Sometimes all you get are a few clicks and silence...
Back in 2011 for NaNoWriMo I wrote a story called "The Dragon Hunter's Daughter"
I'm fairly proud of that story. It's my first completed NaNoWriMo entry (I've finished something every year since, but it was the first.)
It's really a stand-alone story, unlike the Mega Crossover space opera I've been writing since then every year. I'd like, some day, to turn it into a real story, something people might pay for, though I suspect it might never happen at this point.
I've since repurposed parts of it into something one of the characters in my Glee/BtVS crossover series tells (not my space opera). Not sure I'll ever finish that version. It is more work than I expected to extract just parts of a story as a story within a story.
But with this whole COVID-19 thing going on, and feeling extremely pessimistic (because while I'm not OLD, I am in more than one of the high risk groups. Not sure I'll survive a bout of COVID-19.) I decided to start posting the original story to AO3. It's ostensibly a Glee fan fic with Brittany introducing the different chapters in sort of a 'campfire tale' format.
Given that it was written over 8 years ago, and needs some minor tweaking, I think it is turning out fairly well.
But, it doesn't seem to be attracting an audience (except on Twisting the Hellmouth where I am also posting it). A couple clicks on AO3, and dead silence.
Sure, most of my stories as posted on AO3 don't get much attention (probably because I don't write anything explicit (no Slash, and only femslash in a roundabout subtextual kind of way, if at all) or in one of the mega-popular fandoms. But it's slightly disappointing that this one story is being ignored. (Maybe because I have it flagged as requiring an AO3 login to read? Was feeling a trifle protective of this one story.)
We'll see how it goes when I've finished posting it - Saturday hopefully..
Curious? You can find it here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/23123167
Back in 2011 for NaNoWriMo I wrote a story called "The Dragon Hunter's Daughter"
I'm fairly proud of that story. It's my first completed NaNoWriMo entry (I've finished something every year since, but it was the first.)
It's really a stand-alone story, unlike the Mega Crossover space opera I've been writing since then every year. I'd like, some day, to turn it into a real story, something people might pay for, though I suspect it might never happen at this point.
I've since repurposed parts of it into something one of the characters in my Glee/BtVS crossover series tells (not my space opera). Not sure I'll ever finish that version. It is more work than I expected to extract just parts of a story as a story within a story.
But with this whole COVID-19 thing going on, and feeling extremely pessimistic (because while I'm not OLD, I am in more than one of the high risk groups. Not sure I'll survive a bout of COVID-19.) I decided to start posting the original story to AO3. It's ostensibly a Glee fan fic with Brittany introducing the different chapters in sort of a 'campfire tale' format.
Given that it was written over 8 years ago, and needs some minor tweaking, I think it is turning out fairly well.
But, it doesn't seem to be attracting an audience (except on Twisting the Hellmouth where I am also posting it). A couple clicks on AO3, and dead silence.
Sure, most of my stories as posted on AO3 don't get much attention (probably because I don't write anything explicit (no Slash, and only femslash in a roundabout subtextual kind of way, if at all) or in one of the mega-popular fandoms. But it's slightly disappointing that this one story is being ignored. (Maybe because I have it flagged as requiring an AO3 login to read? Was feeling a trifle protective of this one story.)
We'll see how it goes when I've finished posting it - Saturday hopefully..
Curious? You can find it here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/23123167
