December Daily: favorite feedback

[resonant]

mergatrude - "favourite bit of feedback you've received on a fic?"

I remember once someone told me that something or other I had written had jumpstarted their sex life with their partner. That was ... I mean, maybe more than I wanted to know, but definitely a compliment.

I got a comment on Tolleranza from Theresa Neilson-Hayden. She told me my secondary characters pop. That was a thrill, I'll tell you.

The best thing anybody ever said about Breaking and Entering was that they learned the truth about what Eames was feeling at precisely the same time Eames learned it, on the last page of the story.

Recently someone bookmarked Transfig with a note that said, "An important historical artifact."

I also love it when people get semi-coherent -- a note that says "These idiots" or "HOO BOY" or "wait whaaaaaat." Or when they talk back to the "You have already left kudos here" sign.

I think my very favorite thing is when I've put something into the story that I'm not 100% confident I've gotten across -- like in my head the non-POV character is going through a thing, but the POV character doesn't fully realize it -- and then I get feedback that tells me someone noticed. That makes me so ridiculously happy.



Specify a date if you want; otherwise I'll just answer them whenever.

This year, in addition to the usual kinds of questions, I'd also love to get storyish prompts. Storyish meaning you never know what you might get: two sentences of a story, or a description of a story that will never exist, or a love song about how much I like that trope, or a rant about my pet peeve about that trope, or I know nothing about that canon except what I see on social media and here's what I think it might be about, or Ten Reasons Why I Love/Hate/Am Indifferent To that character, canon, or trope, or ...

As always, I'd love to hear about it if you're doing the meme too.


12. marginaliana - ghost stories
13. runpunkrun - "a new thing you tried "
14. isis and clevermanka and trobadora - longhand?!
15. china_shop - Guardian as described by someone who only knows it via social media
16. kiezh following up with - "What have you heard about MDZS/The Untamed, and what did you think of what you heard?"
17. ride4ever's birthday prompt - "Storyish prompt: for any due South fic you've written, write a prequel or sequel snippet for the fic or meta about the before-or-after that can be imagined about the fic's story arc."
18. mific - "the genderswap trope where a character's gender is changed. Yes? No? Maybe?"
19. runpunkrun - "fake dating: yes or no"
20. minoanmiss - "One of my favorite tropes is Then Let Me Be Evil. What do you think of it/have you explored it/so on and so forth?"
21. hypertwink - "21. Now that you've come back, is there a fandom that you want to dip your toe into? (Follow up: Are you apprehensive/excited about it?)"
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24. runpunkrun - "John and Rodney in 2020"
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26. ride4ever - "for any dS or C6D pairing that you ship, how that ship is doing in 2020."
27. reginagiraffe - "Hermione/Harry/Ron from Bed and Board in 2020"
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Comments

[adafrog]

<3

[minoanmiss]

I think my very favorite thing is when I've put something into the story that I'm not 100% confident I've gotten across -- like in my head the non-POV character is going through a thing, but the POV character doesn't fully realize it -- and then I get feedback that tells me someone noticed. That makes me so ridiculously happy.

THIS IS THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD

[lunabee34]

Those would make me happy too!

[clevermanka]

my very favorite thing is when I've put something into the story that I'm not 100% confident I've gotten across -- like in my head the non-POV character is going through a thing, but the POV character doesn't fully realize it -- and then I get feedback that tells me someone noticed
♥♥♥ BEST FEELING ♥♥♥

[mergatrude]

<3

Thank you, this is lovely to hear about.