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[pez]

More comments than ever for the Rikkai doujinshi post yesterday because I asked for it. I had to ask for it! 1 in 3 viewings resulted in a comment. XD; sharpie~ I have an idea! Every month, throw people off devil_mode if they haven't commented even once during that period. And ban them from joining again. It'll give me lots of satisfaction. \XD/ (see discussion in comments!)

A quick word count revealed that I've written 64k words so far this year. In the beginning of 2008 I was aiming to reach 100k this year, like I did in 2007, but it looks like I won't reach the target. Though, I'm not too disappointed with the word count because I wrote quite a few stories I like. :3

eolo pointed out that yesterday's "writer's block" was:

Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in only six words. His response? “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” He is believed to have called it his greatest literary work ever. Can you write a story in six words?

All I can think of is, in Niou-hedgehog's style: They had a lot of sex.

Comment with your six-word story!

Comments

[themirtle.livejournal.com]

I'd second what http://firescribble.livejournal.com/ said - sometimes I open up the doujinshi, see that the plot is quite complicated for me to grasp at first sight and i am either tired or dont have enough time to look thoroughly through it, or the drawing style happens to be not exactly to my liking, so i dont say anything. At the same time I can very well see how frustrating it is for people who put their heart and effort (and money, hey) into such communities to see the readers taking their work for granted. And I totally cant understand the way some people brain works when they share stuff that was specifically requested to be used privately. This is really appalling.
So i guess the idea with the poll is very good (especially with "Pez is God" option)))))

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

It's really hard to find a way to keep all sides happy! It's bad enough with writing fanfic, but at least it's a hobby that I'd carry on even if nobody reads it, so it doesn't matter to me (at least not too badly) if people don't comment. With scans, it's my way to hopefully help maintain people's interest in PoT, introduce them to the pairings I like, and find people to squee with, etc etc. Because I don't want to be the last person left in the fandom, what with everyone moving on to other series these days.

The poll thing will be a compromise since people will get even lazier with comments then, and I've been hoping to make new friends through the comm... but it's still better than nothing, I suppose. Will try to find some way to make it work...

[animegoil.livejournal.com]

Oh my, what you said, to keep people's interest in the series since every one moves onto other ones. That's exactly what you and the other PoT girls in my flist have done. Because I've actually never watched the anime (only, what, 40 random episodes max?) or read the manga (the first couple volumes?) so everything I know about the characters, and my love of Rikkai, has pretty much come from you guys. And it's awesome, because you're right, if it wasn't for you guys, I would have moved on. there's lot of other amazing animes and mangas that I adore, but because there's no more new material (or I haven't found it) it's sort of just moved to the back of my mind.

<3 You wanted to do that, and you're doing it!

[yuki-scorpio.livejournal.com]

♥!