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The future of Brokeback Fanfic
RouxB:
I'm going to come back to this topic when my sanity returns but I just wanted to give a shout out to Cameron. I just starting reading your stuff and I'm really (really) enjoying it. So, even if I haven't commented on LJ, it's still true. I know it's tough to be the newbie and I just want you to know that your fans are surely out there.
Mel, I know what you mean about the negativity-it is depressing. I get more depressed when some posts about how sad it is that pick-an-author left. There is lots of good writing and good reading out there and, yes, it's sad when established writers leave but it is joyous when new ones arrive.
back to the cave...
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MaineWriter:
I did want to expand a little bit on what I mentioned in my other post, about having some sort of a hit counter. There are lots of them out there but the one I use is rite counter, http://www.ritecounter.com/
It's free. You just register and they give you the code you need to use. Every page you post on your LJ, add the code to the bottom. Then you can go to rite counter, log in, and see how many people are accessing your site. There are lots of different options for viewing and did I say, it's FREE.
Cameron and others, sometimes this gives you a well needed ego boost...to know that even if people aren't commenting, they are still hitting your pages (and I assume, reading).
If you are posting on fanfiction.net, that server has a count function built in. Go to the stats section and hunt around. There are a variety of reports you can look at.
Leslie
mvansand76:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on October 18, 2007, 08:34:46 am ---I did want to expand a little bit on what I mentioned in my other post, about having some sort of a hit counter. There are lots of them out there but the one I use is rite counter, http://www.ritecounter.com/
It's free. You just register and they give you the code you need to use. Every page you post on your LJ, add the code to the bottom. Then you can go to rite counter, log in, and see how many people are accessing your site. There are lots of different options for viewing and did I say, it's FREE.
Cameron and others, sometimes this gives you a well needed ego boost...to know that even if people aren't commenting, they are still hitting your pages (and I assume, reading).
If you are posting on fanfiction.net, that server has a count function built in. Go to the stats section and hunt around. There are a variety of reports you can look at.
Leslie
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Thanks Leslie for that. I still need to figure out how to use it though... I guess it's supposed to be realllly easy, but I am not that good at this... :-\ ;)
I think what comes out of all your replies is the thing that we need to avoid is retorting to negativity, because that scares away the authors who are still writing, even if they are only updating once in a while. The number of stories that are actually abandoned and will never be finished is not that high! I took a look at the story threads on here and came up with these, please add when you know another one!
Stories abandoned:
Turbulence
The Bull and its rider
To be alone with you (and two more by Marakeshsparrow, she wrote on her lj a while ago that she is going to focus on her original stories, just like Amy)
(hey what's with that 't' huh? ;))
Apparantly abandoned (not confirmed by author, but last update months ago):
Rawhide
Tainted Evidence
Compared to the number of stories that have actually been finished, that's not a lot! :D
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: Snavel del Snork Snater Snuit on November 04, 2007, 03:41:03 pm ---Thanks Leslie for that. I still need to figure out how to use it though... I guess it's supposed to be realllly easy, but I am not that good at this... :-\ ;)
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Go to www.ritecounter.com and register for an account.
Once you do that, they will give you a bunch of lines of code. Looks sort of like garbage, you'll never be able to memorize so do what I do: copy and paste into a Word document which you can name "ritecounter."
When you post something in LJ, create an entry the usual way. Then, before you hit "post" do this...
Open your "ritecounter" word file
Do ctrl-a (to select all), then ctrl-c to copy
Go to LJ and at the end of your entry, do ctrl-v to paste
That's it! Then when you go to your ritecounter account, you'll be able to see how many hits and hosts you have. For example, today, I have someone doing a marathon read of ALBFS. 116 hits from one host! From the URLs, I know ALBFS is the story the person is reading.
Leslie
MaineWriter:
--- Quote from: Snavel del Snork Snater Snuit on November 04, 2007, 03:41:03 pm ---
Stories abandoned:
Turbulence
The Bull and its rider
To be alone with you (and two more by Marakeshsparrow, she wrote on her lj a while ago that she is going to focus on her original stories, just like Amy)
(hey what's with that 't' huh? ;))
Apparantly abandoned (not confirmed by author, but last update months ago):
Rawhide
Tainted Evidence
Compared to the number of stories that have actually been finished, that's not a lot! :D
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Widower for One Year also seems to have been abandoned.
Have there been any updates to Alexis's stories? The Ties That Bind and Fortunate Son?
L
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