Snowflake Challenge Day 6

Day 6

Leave feedback for a fanwork. Or multiple fanworks. It can be as simple as I liked this to a detailed list of all the things you loved about the fanwork. The key is to leave some sort of feedback.

If you've already left feedback in the course of a previous challenge, it totally counts. But you're free to leave more feedback.

Afterwards, leave a comment in this post with the equivalent of "I did it!" If you feel so inclined, leave a link to the fanwork you left feedback for so others can check it out.

So, today I left a comment on the following story and I'm leaving links to it here (the story, not the comments) so that others can read it:

The Terribly Doom That Came To Honeysuckle Cottage by psychomachia - This is a P.D. Wodehouse/H.P. Lovecraft crossover that I never knew I wanted. It's a perfect mash-up of the two writers containing just the right amount of horror and romance.

Just an additional thing to mention here; every time it's suggested that comments are fuel for writers someone will shoot back with "Write for yourself!!!!" And I agree with that, I really do. We need to write for ourselves and we shouldn't feel pressured to change our style, genre, pairings/characters, or kinks/lack thereof to garner more comments and kudoes. We need to remain true to ourselves in our writing.

That being said, we may write for ourselves but we post for others. That's why it's so important for us to comment. Kudoes are great, but comments are life blood. Comments mean that the reader liked something enough to do more than poke a heart on a screen. Comments can be the difference between a fic continuing and stopping. I know that that sounds bad, but the fact of the matter is, it can be be terribly discouraging to post a fic, to see that hit counter rise, and to get no response on it. And it becomes really easy to view kudoes as nothing more than pity or "it was fine but not good enough to comment on".

I know that I'm guilty of hitting the kudoes heart rather than comment, but this year I am making a concerted effort to comment as well. It's a good habit to get into because the more we comment, the easier it becomes to comment. < / rambles>