On Sun, 15 Jun 1997 11:12:48 -0400, Monica Shin wrote:

At 08:18 PM 6/15/97 +1000, Andrew wrote:

A couple of days ago I sent chapter 4 of my Iczer fic "Guardian Angel" to
the FFML. Since that time, however, I have recieved ABSOLUTELY NO FEEDBACK
WHATSOEVER! Now I realize that there are not a great amount of people (even
amongst the anime community) who like the Iczer series as much as I do, but
at least somebody out there must have read it. PLEASE, SOMEBODY TELL ME WHAT
YOU THOUGHT OF IT!  SEND A FLAME IF YOU WANT TO, BUT TELL ME YOUR OPINION!

*Sweatdrop...
Well, get used to it. Not to be offensive or anything, but typically,
feedback is somewhat nil on anything not Ranma, BGC or Sailor Moon. Trust
me, I know... 
*monica looks at the RGVeda, LoGH and RuKen fics she sent to die a bit of a
death on the FFML... 

It may surprise you, but feedback is often not all that great on Ranma
stories either, unless they are by superstar authors. I've sent Ranma
stuff before and gotten no response at all, and I suspect my average is
better than a lot of authors.

Now let me ask *you* something: (This is generally directed at all those
authors who are unhappy with the amount of C&C they get; *not*
specifically to Andrew & Monica.)


-- How often do you take a chance and read something by an author you
aren't familiar with?

-- When you read something, how often do you take the time to respond?
How often do you take the time to send some constructive criticism?


If your answer to these is "hardly ever", then your complaints about not
getting enough response yourself doesn't carry much weight, IMO. C&C
UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM C&C UNTO YOU!! If you have time to
write, and time to read what the popular authors put out, then you have
time once in a while to read something by an unknown writer and respond
to it.


Just my little counter-rant...

Gary Kleppe
kleppe@execpc.com, Home page http://www.execpc.com/~kleppe
My fanfics and the FFML map are on my comics/manga page,
       http://www.execpc.com/~kleppe/comics