Phoenix Blade is actively being revised and there are plans for more stories set in that universe once that's done and Forthright is just as productive as ever (how on Earth does she do it?)
I only named that one because its the first one that came to mind, that would fulfill the requirements for all the wank - a (seemingly) never-ending story, written over the course of three years, by a well-known author, which kept sweeping all the awards it was nominated for. Goodness knows its not the only fic like that, LOL. But I seem to recall that around the time it ended, there were some other 'big' stories that drew to a close as well.
Forthy does it because she participates in a bunch of LJ communities. I've seen my own productivity shoot up by participating in the weekly comms, but I don't know that my writing as gotten all that much better LOL.
I'd be making recs at IYFG but I don't like posting to a list unless I've read all the posts. I break that rule from time to time if I think nobody else is likely to have said what I have to say but nobody wants three people all recommending the same fic so I hold off. If it's like other quarters by the time I DO get caught up the rec period will be over.
Well, let me just say that *NOBODY* has been making recs to the guild, in the last few quarters even. I'm sure folks wouldn't mind a break from the bitching if they could get a few leads on some good stories, LOL :P
My biggest problem with IYFG isn't the wank, lord knows it has more than its share, but the antique list serve structure that Yahoo uses. I'm on dialup and I can either wait for each...individual...post...to...load or try to follow the conversation in the digest where things aren't always in order. Moving to LJ isn't a solution since it isn't designed to do the same things that a forum does but if I can get caught up in time to make the recommendation I think moving to Delphi Forums or some other host with a better format would make a difference.
I agree that Yahoo is kinda outdated for the Guild's needs. Even LJ at least threads things, and you can skip the threads you aren't interested in reading...but goodness knows there will be a rage-ful outcry if the mods even contemplate moving away from Yahoo (eyeroll).
A forum would be the best bet, but considering how much of an issue control already is, it's probably for the best that no one person owns or administrates the server for the guild. I only forsee danger and even more copious amounts of wank if that comes to pass...
You get that with Sesshoumaru/Kagome but there are still enough people willing to put in the hard work of dealing with them as themselves and still getting them together that I don't automatically skip over all the stories about the pairing.
It seems Sess/Kag inspires some extreme emotion in most, though - either love it or hate it. Maybe some people who only like the canon pairings are upset that there's been a boost in Sess/Kag stories? Again - just speculation, but it seems there is a strong anti-Sess/Kag bias at the IYFG. Which is fine; that's what Dokuga is for right LOL?
You may be right about people only seeing one small corner of fandom and thinking it's the whole thing. I follow stuff at LJ, FF.Net, Media Miner, Yahoo, Paper Demon, Y!Gallery, and some private sites and I'm still out of the loop on some things, like the contest communities, that I simply don't have time for. It may be that people who haven't been fans for 6 or 7 years just don't know what's out there.
That's more than I keep up with! :P I mostly read stuff here on LJ, or take recs for fics on MM.org or FF.net, but I rarely go searching through the great piles of fic to find new stuff. It's terrible, but I just don't have the time or energy to do that! (And I feel bad, because it wasn't so long ago that *I* was that new author hoping someone would give my stuff a chance...)
Perhaps a directory or links page would be a good idea for the IYFG website if they don't have one already.
The whole website needs to be overhauled in my opinion, but it does actually have a link to (some of) the archives out there.
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Date: 2008-12-21 09:11 pm (UTC)I only named that one because its the first one that came to mind, that would fulfill the requirements for all the wank - a (seemingly) never-ending story, written over the course of three years, by a well-known author, which kept sweeping all the awards it was nominated for. Goodness knows its not the only fic like that, LOL. But I seem to recall that around the time it ended, there were some other 'big' stories that drew to a close as well.
Forthy does it because she participates in a bunch of LJ communities. I've seen my own productivity shoot up by participating in the weekly comms, but I don't know that my writing as gotten all that much better LOL.
I'd be making recs at IYFG but I don't like posting to a list unless I've read all the posts. I break that rule from time to time if I think nobody else is likely to have said what I have to say but nobody wants three people all recommending the same fic so I hold off. If it's like other quarters by the time I DO get caught up the rec period will be over.
Well, let me just say that *NOBODY* has been making recs to the guild, in the last few quarters even. I'm sure folks wouldn't mind a break from the bitching if they could get a few leads on some good stories, LOL :P
My biggest problem with IYFG isn't the wank, lord knows it has more than its share, but the antique list serve structure that Yahoo uses. I'm on dialup and I can either wait for each...individual...post...to...load or try to follow the conversation in the digest where things aren't always in order. Moving to LJ isn't a solution since it isn't designed to do the same things that a forum does but if I can get caught up in time to make the recommendation I think moving to Delphi Forums or some other host with a better format would make a difference.
I agree that Yahoo is kinda outdated for the Guild's needs. Even LJ at least threads things, and you can skip the threads you aren't interested in reading...but goodness knows there will be a rage-ful outcry if the mods even contemplate moving away from Yahoo (eyeroll).
A forum would be the best bet, but considering how much of an issue control already is, it's probably for the best that no one person owns or administrates the server for the guild. I only forsee danger and even more copious amounts of wank if that comes to pass...
You get that with Sesshoumaru/Kagome but there are still enough people willing to put in the hard work of dealing with them as themselves and still getting them together that I don't automatically skip over all the stories about the pairing.
It seems Sess/Kag inspires some extreme emotion in most, though - either love it or hate it. Maybe some people who only like the canon pairings are upset that there's been a boost in Sess/Kag stories? Again - just speculation, but it seems there is a strong anti-Sess/Kag bias at the IYFG. Which is fine; that's what Dokuga is for right LOL?
You may be right about people only seeing one small corner of fandom and thinking it's the whole thing. I follow stuff at LJ, FF.Net, Media Miner, Yahoo, Paper Demon, Y!Gallery, and some private sites and I'm still out of the loop on some things, like the contest communities, that I simply don't have time for. It may be that people who haven't been fans for 6 or 7 years just don't know what's out there.
That's more than I keep up with! :P I mostly read stuff here on LJ, or take recs for fics on MM.org or FF.net, but I rarely go searching through the great piles of fic to find new stuff. It's terrible, but I just don't have the time or energy to do that! (And I feel bad, because it wasn't so long ago that *I* was that new author hoping someone would give my stuff a chance...)
Perhaps a directory or links page would be a good idea for the IYFG website if they don't have one already.
The whole website needs to be overhauled in my opinion, but it does actually have a link to (some of) the archives out there.