Re: The Pit of Voles
Jun. 18th, 2009 01:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vanillafluffyThey make me crazy: These people who have been members for a year or two, have posted maybe three stories totalling 4000 words or less---but they've got a profile containing quotes from every movie they've ever seen and some knee-jerk meme (If you love baby kittens, post this. If someone has ever made you cry, post this. If you have ever stood naked in the middle of a graveyard at midnight, post this.*) and when you compress the profile, there's nothing left but those lonely little stories, one of which probably says something like, "I suck at summeries" or "I don't want to give my excellent plot away but please read it".
Aaaaarrgh!
Okay, first of all, move the fucking endless profile over to Facebook. Now SHUT UP AND WRITE FICTION. There should be a rule that your profile can't be longer than your writing credits.
While we're at it, maybe they could make the background a different color for people who actually post stories, as opposed to the people who just favorite every goddamn thing they've ever read. Kinda like on eBay, where your star changes color the more good feedback you get.
And summaries? Geez Louise, and Thelma too---it's a sentence, or two or three. An catchy quote, a "To be or not to be?" question, a clue---just give us a clue! Is it past, present or future? What character(s) does it feature? Does it fill in a gap in canon, or is it AU? If you've really come up with a genius idea, surely you can come up with a couple lines that won't spoil us!
Next Wednesday will be the 5th anniversary of my first post over there. I have a total of 126 posted fics, thank you very much. Which isn't everything I've posted HERE, since there are a few things that are way too *ahem* intense for that venue. (Knowledge is Power would probably get me banned.)
Their loss....
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* Okay, I made that one up. I wasn't naked.
Aaaaarrgh!
Okay, first of all, move the fucking endless profile over to Facebook. Now SHUT UP AND WRITE FICTION. There should be a rule that your profile can't be longer than your writing credits.
While we're at it, maybe they could make the background a different color for people who actually post stories, as opposed to the people who just favorite every goddamn thing they've ever read. Kinda like on eBay, where your star changes color the more good feedback you get.
And summaries? Geez Louise, and Thelma too---it's a sentence, or two or three. An catchy quote, a "To be or not to be?" question, a clue---just give us a clue! Is it past, present or future? What character(s) does it feature? Does it fill in a gap in canon, or is it AU? If you've really come up with a genius idea, surely you can come up with a couple lines that won't spoil us!
Next Wednesday will be the 5th anniversary of my first post over there. I have a total of 126 posted fics, thank you very much. Which isn't everything I've posted HERE, since there are a few things that are way too *ahem* intense for that venue. (Knowledge is Power would probably get me banned.)
Their loss....
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* Okay, I made that one up. I wasn't naked.