[ SECRET POST #745 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #745 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Trickster Online]


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[Sprouse twins, Mother 3]


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[Fullmetal Alchemist - Riza Hawkeye]


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[Professor Layton]


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[The Dark Tower]


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[Obama. Ozymandias of Watchmen.]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 15 pages, 357 secrets from Secret Submission Post #107.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 (is ironic) 7 8 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 2 - doing it wrong ], [ 1 - link to a random site ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[velvet-mace.livejournal.com]

151) That's not how it works. There's lots of reasons why you didn't get a big response that have nothing to do with the quality of the work.

1) You picked a lull or conversely a very active period for the community. If it was a lull, people might not check your fic until a few days later, and there's a tendency for people not to comment on a fic they perceive as being "old" (sometimes people actually apologize to me for commenting on an old fic, as if I might be offended). If the community got too active, then you might have been pushed from the first page before there was a chance to garner much of an audience.

2) You have a great fic, but a poor header. People usually spend about a second deciding whether or not to click on a link, and if your header doesn't sound really interesting, (or if it commits any number of sins of formatting) people will say, eh no.

3) Your fic is great, but it's an unpopular pairing or situation that doesn't really grab people. Your story could be either too weird that it sounds ungainly, or else too generic to be worthy of interest. Personally, I think it's best to err on the weird side, because fandom tends to be so cliched.

In fact popularity (and comments) has far more to do with content than with quality. Don't be embarrassed. Just observe and find out what stories your new fandom is actually yenning for.

OP of 151...

[(Anonymous)]

I thank you kindly for the excellent advice (and everyone else who commented with advice) and I feel kind of bad for not specifying in my secret - I'm a fanartist (there aren't that many people doing fanart in this fandom and I was trying to be very anon.) But the fact that everyone thought I was talking about fic was kind of illuminating in itself. Some fandoms are more interested in and eager for fanart than others; HP, for instance, was always hungry for fanart and the feedback reflected that. I think maybe fandoms based on television just don't have the same 'need' for fanart because they can see the characters just by watching the show.

Of course, fanartists who have huge flists and big followings still get lots of feedback, but I don't have either, so my work is judged on a piece by piece basis and that's when it gets awkward - when I post something I've worked very hard on, and I think it looks pretty sharp, but almost no one comments, I start second-guessing my own eyes. I generally bounce my artwork off a few people, and my test audience liked it, so...I don't know. But again, thanks for the well-thought out advice. Some of it, especially #1, may be helpful in the future.

Re: OP of 151...

[velvet-mace.livejournal.com]

A lot of the same things apply for fanart. If there are a ton of fanartists doing basically the same thing, you might get less response, or conversely, very few fanartists, because the fandom doesn't know quite what to make of it. Or else you choose a subject who isn't that popular, or a pose that is generic. It's surprising how important context is even in art.

Think of it this way, if you are drawing everyone's favorite character in a straight forward, arms down pose, smiling, your picture (while distinctly yours) really doesn't have anything new to offer. If however you draw your favorite character being tentacle raped by squid -- chances are they've never seen that before. You'll get a lot of responses not because of the quality, but because you've given them something new. (You don't have to do tentacle rape, but maybe having him leaping a stream or attacking an enemy or something.)

It's harder to draw dynamic poses, but also more rewarding.