Snowflake Challenge: Day 2
Jan. 3rd, 2015 05:54 pmYesterday's Snowflake Challenge was to ask for three things I want. It comes timely, as ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
jae has a post about the lack of fannish conversation (I paraphrase *incredibly*, so take a look), which reminds me that I want people to talk to one another on DW (or LJ) instead of talking past one another on Tumblr.
I also want feedback. There should be more feedback, I feel, since it's the way we fans 'pay' each other for the effort of creating wonderful things. I am trying to resolve to leave an actual comment whenever I read a fic that I enjoy, rather than clicking the kudos button and moving on. Kudos are nice, but comments are better, and thoughtful comments are golden. I think I've got into selfish ways, just clicking and quite often bookmarking, but not actually leaving worthwhile comments, and I can do better. Who's with me?
Anyone wanting to commit to the feedback thing has a couple of days to send feedback to the Make The Yuletide Gay challenge while stories are still anonymous—which is always the most fun, I think. Have a go! Last year I got eight comments for each story (I wrote two), same as the year before, but there's a way to go this year.
Today's Challenge is about the creative process, and I'm not sure I can do anything about that at the moment. Have to let it brew a while.
jae has a post about the lack of fannish conversation (I paraphrase *incredibly*, so take a look), which reminds me that I want people to talk to one another on DW (or LJ) instead of talking past one another on Tumblr.I also want feedback. There should be more feedback, I feel, since it's the way we fans 'pay' each other for the effort of creating wonderful things. I am trying to resolve to leave an actual comment whenever I read a fic that I enjoy, rather than clicking the kudos button and moving on. Kudos are nice, but comments are better, and thoughtful comments are golden. I think I've got into selfish ways, just clicking and quite often bookmarking, but not actually leaving worthwhile comments, and I can do better. Who's with me?
Anyone wanting to commit to the feedback thing has a couple of days to send feedback to the Make The Yuletide Gay challenge while stories are still anonymous—which is always the most fun, I think. Have a go! Last year I got eight comments for each story (I wrote two), same as the year before, but there's a way to go this year.
Today's Challenge is about the creative process, and I'm not sure I can do anything about that at the moment. Have to let it brew a while.