I have to agree with Whimsy about fanfiction.net.  It's weird seeing  people 
consider it the end-all-be-all of fanfics.  Seriously, have you seen  some of 
the entries?  And they don't need C+C?
 
Please.
 
The way I see the FFML, it's first and foremost a place to show your work,  
like fanfiction.net is a place to show your work, albeit to a larger  audience. 
People can still comment on your fic in both places, no  problem.  The only 
real difference is that the FFML is more readily geared  towards line-by-line 
scrutiny.  True, you don't really get the same thing  from fanfiction.net, but 
the trade-in to that is there will be a lot more  general comments made to you 
fic. 
 
It's all well and good to know what's wrong with your work, but it just as  
important to know what you're doing RIGHT with it.  I've seen tons of C+C  
that's 99% or greater criticism and 1% oe less comments about the  fic.  Almost 
anything positive is beneficial, be it good grammar  interesting word choices, 
or excellent characterization.  It's like  training a boxer.  If you do nothing 
but scold the dog, it'll do things  because it knows a punishment will come, 
but once you turn your back, it'll slip  into destructive patterns faster than 
you can say "Harry Potter/Ranma  Xovers."
 
Anyone feeling slighted that an author puts up work on the FFML and posts  to 
fanfiction.net at the same time should get over such narrowminded  
preconceptions (or stop using it as an excuse to not C+C because they didn't  want to in 
the first place) and just C+C it regardless. If you had no intentions  of 
commenting on the fic in the first place, then be quiet, because no one cares  
about what you MIGHT have said.
 
Adrian Moten

"Patience and perseverance have a magical  effect before which difficulties 
disappear and obstacles vanish." John Quincy Adams

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