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in which i try not to feel sorry for myself :-)
I wrote Romeo/Mercutio in blank verse for my first ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
yuletide in 2004, so I've been fine ever since then with the idea that I started at the top and the only way to go was down. I know better than to expect everything I write for yuletide to be comprehensively praised and recced all over yuletidedom and and and. But, but -- the pinch-hit I did that year got props too, and my entry in 2005 as well, and my entry in 2006, much to my surprise and delight.
This year, having written a fic that I happen to think is better than last year's, no recs yet (which I'm 99% fine with, really, only a little disappointed to break my streak [g]), and only one comment!, and that not from the recipient, who on the one hand didn't say she was going to be away -- but on the other hand, hasn't commented on the Treat someone else wrote for her either. (I believe she is away, and just didn't say so in the thread. That's all I'm willing to say about that without Revealing Too Much.) The one comment I've gotten wasn't e-mailed to me, so I keep refreshing the comments page in the hope that the count will go up, but it keeps not happening.
I think the X factor is the fandom. This may be the most obscure fandom I've written foryuletide, so lots of my 1200+ cohorts may be browsing right past it. But, but, the same thing was true in 2005 -- the obscurity of the fandoms is too close to call, I think -- and that story got more love than this one.
Sigh.
I am enjoying the archive, don't get me wrong!, when I have time to read a couple of things from it. May get two or three more read today -- oh, there goes the shower, so I've got a little time now while I'm in the queue. :-)
[eta: And in contrast to the last few days before I left Oxford, I'm not at all disappointed in the fact that I'm glad it's not just me. ;-)]
yuletide in 2004, so I've been fine ever since then with the idea that I started at the top and the only way to go was down. I know better than to expect everything I write for yuletide to be comprehensively praised and recced all over yuletidedom and and and. But, but -- the pinch-hit I did that year got props too, and my entry in 2005 as well, and my entry in 2006, much to my surprise and delight.This year, having written a fic that I happen to think is better than last year's, no recs yet (which I'm 99% fine with, really, only a little disappointed to break my streak [g]), and only one comment!, and that not from the recipient, who on the one hand didn't say she was going to be away -- but on the other hand, hasn't commented on the Treat someone else wrote for her either. (I believe she is away, and just didn't say so in the thread. That's all I'm willing to say about that without Revealing Too Much.) The one comment I've gotten wasn't e-mailed to me, so I keep refreshing the comments page in the hope that the count will go up, but it keeps not happening.
I think the X factor is the fandom. This may be the most obscure fandom I've written for
yuletide, so lots of my 1200+ cohorts may be browsing right past it. But, but, the same thing was true in 2005 -- the obscurity of the fandoms is too close to call, I think -- and that story got more love than this one.Sigh.
I am enjoying the archive, don't get me wrong!, when I have time to read a couple of things from it. May get two or three more read today -- oh, there goes the shower, so I've got a little time now while I'm in the queue. :-)
[eta: And in contrast to the last few days before I left Oxford, I'm not at all disappointed in the fact that I'm glad it's not just me. ;-)]