-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Kleppe <KLEPPE@execpc.com>
To: fanfic list <ffml@fanfic.com>
Date: Thursday, May 21, 1998 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: [FFML] Sarcastic Challange

RPM - acct 3/5 <rpm39788@Bayou.UH.EDU> wrote:

Now that this little spamfest is in full bloom, I'd
like to ask all you aspiring and suddenly prolific
writers something.

Write a story.  Write a full blown story.  I'm talking
about something at least 20K in size.  Something with
a modest plot to it.

You folks have dipped your feet in the writing pool,
now it's time to swim.  Okay?

So, Rod, does this mean you're volunteering to C&C some of the stuff
that these new authors will be putting out?

 I should hope so.  It's so difficult to get responses if you're a new
author.  It's really intimidating, coming to the ML and seeing as how the
most active members always C&C and talk to each other, where as new authors
who post fics get hardly any response at all.

I do understand that people read their favorites first.  If I saw the next
part of "The Pursuit of Happiness" or "Hearts of Ice", and then someone who
I never heard of, I'd read TPOH or HoI.  Just it'd be nice if the more
established authors, when they had a little extra time, would read a fic or
two by a relatively unknown  people, and make suggestions.  I know I've
posted maybe... 3 or 4 FFIV fics, and have gotten replies from Azusa and
Phillip Masters... that's it.  I also got one reply for a Ronin Warriors fic
I posted.  This isn't to say that no one's reading them (which... actually
is probably true ^_^) but that's what some people assume.

Besides, how do you become an "established" author, if no one reads your fic
to begin with?

^_^

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