People wanted meta a while ago...

So I bring meta.

Be careful where you step; it is meta, after all. Doing meta often means inadvertently stepping on others who see things differently. It's not meant to. It's just meant to explain

( how I see TF gender )

Snowflake Challenge Day 14

Day 1
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Days 3 and 4 were "go meet someone" or "go comment", so uh... things happened?
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Day 14

In your own space, ask for help. Need a beta? Always wanted to learn how to make a vid? a fanmix? icons? Maybe you’d want to have someone cheering for you while you work on an upcoming big bang or fannish bingo? Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Hmm. I'm not sure this is anything I can explain well enough to come out coherent, but I have trouble finding stuff to read. I don't hang out on the kink meme because a lot of prompts squick or even trigger me, and I feel I can only dip my toes in when I'm steeled to run into something that'll really bother me. But I also really like finding new stuff to read.

So... any suggestions for any places where people don't just list fics by when they're posted (like, say, thecybertronian does), but that collect fic based a little more on what they contain? Like I can remember a while ago that someone was collecting a list of Optimus/Starscream. I don't know if people still use it as I don't ship that particular pairing much at all, but I remember really liking the concept of something encyclopedic that wasn't just all fic everywhere. Do folks know of lists like that anywhere?

Oh my goodness yes.

All of this. On concrit, and what it is, and why it's a good thing some people want it. (Some people don't. And that's fine. For some, fandom is about low-stress unwinding and having fun, and writing is more something fun to do than something to perfect. Bugging those people with nitpicking isn't cool, because it's not the point of what they're up to. But others, like me, want and strive to improve.)

That's one thing I miss from my original fiction days. In that world, concrit was common. Expected, even.

In this one, I get a lot of squee and occasional wank. Both of these are nonspecific. "This is awesome!" makes my day, and "Her work is dull and boring" makes my day sad... but neither of them tell me what I do wrong or right, what to play up and what to change.

I'd love more concrit, and almost asked for it for Snowflake. Chickened out because some fandom people think it means "I like wank." But real concrit... yeah, I'd like more of it.

And this is probably dooming myself, but those people who said I'm not that good? From the context I saw it in, I think they were most likely wanking, not talking about analyzing my style or my skill. Still, part of me has hoped ever since then that one of them would tell me what s/he finds dull about my writing, if s/he could keep it to "why this story doesn't work for me" rather than "I don't like you."

So, my friends (and my enemies too, if you can keep it civil), what do you think I could improve? What do you think I do well?