Yet Another Post About Feedback and Ficathons

[melwil]

femslash06 fics are beginning to trickle in, and although I did not participate, I am enjoying reading the fics.

Most of the time I'm leaving feedback. Mostly of the 'yay! glee!' type, because I really don't have anything insightful to say. Sometimes I'm not - I can't really think of anything highly positive to say, and I don't know the people at all, so I don't feel comfortable leaving constructive crit.

(I wonder if it would be different if I'd participated?)

Which made me think about ficathons and feedback. I read almost everything, and gave feedback on everything I wrote for the Spooks ficathon - but then that was a small ficathon which turned out brilliant stories.

As for remix, I actually haven't yet read any of them. Again I didn't participate, and the idea of picking out stories from such a big collection is quite overwhelming.

This really doesn't have a point . . . just thoughts.

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I have a small collection of My Scene dolls on my desk - Lindsey Lohan, A 't-shirt' doll, a party boy and two street smart girls. The street smarts are my new favourites. They have streaks, tattoos, mobile phones and belly button rings. And sitting on my desk, they're just about writing the slash (while Lindsey keeps looking on knowingly)

Comments

[kannaophelia.livejournal.com]

I think feedback is a difficult thing when it comes to ficathons. I have no hesitation at all in leaving concrit, or harsh reviews for stories I felt needed a gell of a lot more work and thought, in general. But ficathon stories are written generally under pressure, and as gifts, and it's an entirely different cup of tea. Squeeing is really teh best reponse.

There was one story in particular for yuletide that I detested, but under the circumstances I couldn't really say "This is widly OOC and feels like you've cut and posted details into a Harlequin romance novel and, by the way, the sex sucks", so I said nothing at all.

[melwil.livejournal.com]

That's it exactly. How can you say to someone that their characterisations are strange and there's no real ending, when they've written it for someone, they've got it in on time and you don't know them.