scottishfae

It's posted over at MediaMiner.org, I believe in it's complete form.

I read this story ages ago, and I don't remember most of it. Just bits of scenes, really. I remember there being a tiger tribe threatening Koga's clan that they were constantly fighting with. At some point (for whatever reason, i don't remember) Kagome ends up with Koga's clan and they fall for each other (I remember he sleeping in a bed of furs). Then, the tiger tribe kidnaps Kagome while trying to hurt Koga & he rushes after her to save him. That's all I have in my brain. Sorry. I hope someone recognizes it.

I think it all depends on the effort you want to put into it. I post at a lot of places (um...6 places w/ general interests, and then a handful of ones with specific themes/fandoms/etc) and it takes me close to 30 minutes to format my fics/chapters as each site specifies. And while I often have to post on the fly given my current schedule, I can't bring myself to stop posting to all those sites because I have people who follow my fics only on certain sites.

I've been writing in lots of other fandoms between my updates, b/c those are usually short stories that I can pop out in a day two. UE is something that takes a lot more to it, and the fact that I'm (now) putting a lot of research into it--which is kind of what I"m doing for all my works that I"m basing in Japan now. I"m noticing that a lot of people don't cross fandoms though. They kind of stick to one or two at the most, and for that, I'm possibly happy. I'm thinking a lot of this drama is completely unique to the IY fandom. A friend of mine listened to vent and then told me that other drama has been happening in the fandom similar or a lot worse. I'm kind of wondering if the fandom will slow down and thin out now that the series is over with; or perhaps it already has and the drama is caused by the people left.

As frustrated as I get at times, I don't think I could ever hold my own fic for hostage. I have gotten to the point where I've wanted to quit writing (though that was mostly for my own self-depreciation more than outside forces) or stop publishing on certain sites. As much as I love AFF and many of the people here (especially you, DemonGoddess061, who has become one of my dearest friends), sometimes the way people act make me just want to pull my stories. I don't b/c there are a lot of people here who aren't so self-absorbed and that would be unfair to them. I find it's pretty rare for people to not update for a long time w/o a reason. They don't always share it with readers, but there is usually something foregrounding the lapse. So while I'm sure readers may lose interest after a while, sometimes it just can't be helped. As quirkyslayer pointed out, most writers aren't "writing robots" we don't all have the expendable time, budget, energy, resources or even creativity to pound out 10-20 page chapters every couple of days. And with that said, I do want to say that I'm on both sides of this situation. I'm a reader just as much as a writer and I get just as frustrated when people don't update. But the big difference is I know when to walk away and be mature about it. If I see the author wrote a new story, I wouldn't immediately flame it b/c it isn't the story s/he wants. I'm not always very proud of my stories (again, self-depreciation queen, right here!) but the one that was flamed I am very much in love with. To see it not even get a chance kind of hit my buttons, which caused this thread.

I had a professor in undergrad who looked like Ron Jeremy. That is, his outside, fully clothed, appearance. I wasn't going to see if all of him matched. *gags just thinking about it*