Baby doesn't like shameless self promotion

[jennickels]

"I'm uncomfortable with this on so many levels..."

Anyone else have a thing against advertising their fic?  It just seems weird to paste links to my stuff all over (like in the rec comms and stuff).  I don't know why.  If I ever became a published author I'd be screwed with all the publicity stuff.  I hate it.  Maybe I'm just weird.

Of course, I also get very few reviews on my stories but oh, well.  Just wondering if I was alone?

Also because I wanted an excuse to post this video from iCarly.  It cracks me up.

Yes, I'm easily amused.

Comments

[jennickels.livejournal.com]

LOL, I hate it when people do those first 3. Ugh.

My public LJ posts automatically get sent to my twitter so I guess I have that. Maybe I should start posting to the Sam/Jack comms here.

[campylobacter.livejournal.com]

Nothing makes me wanna smack someone like those 1st 3 do. Especially the "blackmail readers for praise by not posting the next chapter of a WiP" ploy.

The other 5 have never bothered me, and are sooohelpful if you're a community mod.

[thothmes.livejournal.com]

WORD about those first 3. Blackmail is just wrong, but then I think of my writing as a gift to people, and saying I won't post unless people review would be imitating my daughter (she of my default icon, seen here) at 18 months. We tried to teach her to say thank you at a tender age by playing the "Thank You Game" where we would take turns accepting a toy from her and saying "Thank you!" and handing it back to her, so she could do the same. The result was that at 18 months, if you had something she wanted, she would march up to you, hold out one hand, frown, and say "Thank you!" in increasingly demanding tones until you handed it over. Not the manners success we were hoping for, although a tendency to develop sudden deafness when faced with this tactic soon rid us of that obnoxious (but adorably earnest) behavior.

The other kind of self-promotion is the sort that I try to follow through with (minus the Tweet or Tumblr, since I don't maintain accounts) if I'm doing a ficathon/Five Things post/or similar. It seems only polite to pimp your host.

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Edited for egregious spelling errors!