I don't write, but I read more fic than can be healthy. I can only offer observations of my own feedbacking behavior for you to see how it fits into your patterns...
Before LJ it was a very rare event that I emailed feedback. I felt shy and more than a little lame that all I had to say was "guh" and "holy fuck I am broken now". The 4 or 5 stories I responded to that way, out of many hundreds read, were mid-length and very emotional.
My feedbacking ratio here on LJ is completely different though. On a bad day I will comment on one fic in five that I read, on a good day probably every second. Most of the time it is still a thank you, just a line or two to say I read and enjoyed, but I am increasingly comfortable with (as a non-writer) offering actual critique. This I am sure is through reading hundreds of pages of comments from other people over the last year.
This is of course made easier in LJ land because I see a much higher percentage of well written fic than I did out in the wild. I love the authors on my reading list and any fic pimped there might as well have a guarantee stamped on it.
I know myself that I am more likely to respond to something that is between 1000 words and 10,000 than anything very short or novel length that I have to read in more than one sitting. I may think more on a longer fic, and rate it highly in my head but the very complexity of them can mean that I don't know what to say to the author. One line of "god, that was a hot sex scene", or "oooh, scary twist there" is not going to cut it. I get shy.
Random things: I think perhaps more feedback can be generated by a fic with one core emotion, or a strong simple premise. It is just easier to casually respond to. Leaves the author wondering about their more complex or subtle work though, I'm sure.
I still freak about email feedback - because it is private and seems somehow intrusive...? that will just be me then.
Shagging Harmony Kendall is fab!
Ok, so this is all a little random, and I think some caffeine must have snuck into my body this morning, because I am not usually this wordy at all.
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I don't write, but I read more fic than can be healthy. I can only offer observations of my own feedbacking behavior for you to see how it fits into your patterns...
Before LJ it was a very rare event that I emailed feedback. I felt shy and more than a little lame that all I had to say was "guh" and "holy fuck I am broken now". The 4 or 5 stories I responded to that way, out of many hundreds read, were mid-length and very emotional.
My feedbacking ratio here on LJ is completely different though. On a bad day I will comment on one fic in five that I read, on a good day probably every second. Most of the time it is still a thank you, just a line or two to say I read and enjoyed, but I am increasingly comfortable with (as a non-writer) offering actual critique. This I am sure is through reading hundreds of pages of comments from other people over the last year.
This is of course made easier in LJ land because I see a much higher percentage of well written fic than I did out in the wild. I love the authors on my reading list and any fic pimped there might as well have a guarantee stamped on it.
I know myself that I am more likely to respond to something that is between 1000 words and 10,000 than anything very short or novel length that I have to read in more than one sitting. I may think more on a longer fic, and rate it highly in my head but the very complexity of them can mean that I don't know what to say to the author. One line of "god, that was a hot sex scene", or "oooh, scary twist there" is not going to cut it. I get shy.
Random things: I think perhaps more feedback can be generated by a fic with one core emotion, or a strong simple premise. It is just easier to casually respond to. Leaves the author wondering about their more complex or subtle work though, I'm sure.
I still freak about email feedback - because it is private and seems somehow intrusive...? that will just be me then.
Shagging Harmony Kendall is fab!
Ok, so this is all a little random, and I think some caffeine must have snuck into my body this morning, because I am not usually this wordy at all.