jennickels (
jennickels) wrote2012-01-13 02:40 pm
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Baby doesn't like shameless self promotion
"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.
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If haters think spreading the fandom squee is shameless, I say let them flounce themselves into obscurity.
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I read the S/J rec thread at GateWorld but I don't post. That's how I find all the good fics to read.
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1. 'Please read & review! Reviews are LOVE! =)'
2. 'Please let me know if you liked this chapter n i will rite more if there's enuff commentz <3'
3. 'I don't know if this is allowed on this Sam/Jack community but I wrote a Maybourne/MarySue plz read & let me know you love itttt!!111!!'
FUCK YEAH SELF PROMOTION
1. Completely linked story header with spoiler & content warnings at relevant communities whose readers CRAVE the content you're posting
2. A Tweet that links to your latest blog entry or archived fan work
3. A Tumblr post announcing your latest fan work
4. Providing links to your latest fan work to a relevant fan newsletter/bulletin board
5. Archiving fan works at multiple sites in case one of them fails (I'm looking at YOU, LiveJournal)
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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.
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The other 5 have never bothered me, and are sooohelpful if you're a community mod.
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Anyway...
A lot of what I write is for prompt-challenges (like
If somebody asks something like, "does anybody know any stories with ___?" and I've written some, I'll share the links, but that's usually in a reply to one person's entry.
I know some people expect dozens and dozens of comments on their writing, but I feel pretty darn special to get eight or ten!
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Have you ever heard of him, you ask? Probably not. He's published several novels, a half-dozen volumes of poetry, and a book of short stories, but he frantically quashed his agent's scheme to get a single paragraph review of his first novel published in People magazine before it could come to pass. I knew then that he was not going to be following his buddy John Irving into the land of fantastic commercial success!
I have a terrible time pimping my own work. If I write comment fic, I view it as a bit of a gift to the recipient, and I kind of feel funny directing people off to their space to see my work, so I'd say about half of what I've written is known to only a select group of the author, and those people who came along to comment after I did.
I admire
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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!
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I don't expect anything either. I'm thrilled if I get like 2 or 3. I usually get a couple on my LJ from friends but most I get at ff.net but still I only ever get like 3 or 4. I still wonder how people end up with hundreds of reviews. Shrug. I'm not in it for my ego so I really don't care.
Getting excited squee from my friends on LJ is the best. I prefer that over a hundred "good story" at ff.net.
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Yep, exactly.