I'm very glad that I'm mostly out of the (areas of) fandoms where that happens. I've seen it second-hand, but the only mailing lists I'm on are in a fandom where it doesn't happen much (there's one woman who writes gushing reviews of stuff the rest of us don't like, but I mostly ignore her).
I sometimes wonder if I should be more selective in the section of my F'List that I show my snippets of Original Fic to, because they can't all be interested. But different passages are going to appeal to different people, and it's going to be tricky working out who want to comment on what. If a passage rings true for one person (and not always the same one), then I know I'm still on the right track, and can leave the rest to my betas.
Yes, ego-stroking is nice, and I could easily get more if I went back to writing in my various fandoms. But I'd much rather write what I want to write, and hope that it's the best I can come up with.
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Date: 2004-12-28 08:17 am (UTC)I sometimes wonder if I should be more selective in the section of my F'List that I show my snippets of Original Fic to, because they can't all be interested. But different passages are going to appeal to different people, and it's going to be tricky working out who want to comment on what. If a passage rings true for one person (and not always the same one), then I know I'm still on the right track, and can leave the rest to my betas.
Yes, ego-stroking is nice, and I could easily get more if I went back to writing in my various fandoms. But I'd much rather write what I want to write, and hope that it's the best I can come up with.
Gina