"Add to this that sometimes the fandom audience is actually a terrible judge of work, since it's a place where a flash of penis can outweigh actual genius (in my own case, lacking penis and genius, amusing farces generally score far higher comment counts that the few works that have more substance)."
It's true--fan fic readers like puns and word play, explicit sexual description, mentions of their favorite foods, little inside jokes--a whole catalog of sins to which I am subject as a writer that to someone serious would be targets for an editorial purge.
I guess I'm not sure why someone would ask to be be critiqued in public by friends instead of just sending them the story before it goes live. I suppose we all benefit to some degree from seeing what others consider valid critique.
Sometimes I want to go back and criticize what other people consider con crit. "You call that constructive! You didn't give any direction! That criticism is SHIT and I'm ripping your critique TO SHREDS! Rarr."
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It's true--fan fic readers like puns and word play, explicit sexual description, mentions of their favorite foods, little inside jokes--a whole catalog of sins to which I am subject as a writer that to someone serious would be targets for an editorial purge.
I guess I'm not sure why someone would ask to be be critiqued in public by friends instead of just sending them the story before it goes live. I suppose we all benefit to some degree from seeing what others consider valid critique.
Sometimes I want to go back and criticize what other people consider con crit. "You call that constructive! You didn't give any direction! That criticism is SHIT and I'm ripping your critique TO SHREDS! Rarr."