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[mare]

Is there any story of yours that if it was read, you'd be afraid to be judged solely by that story?

This is What Happens When Chinchillas are Bored! LOL

[Carter-Orange]

Is there any story of yours that if it was read, you'd be afraid to be judged solely by that story?

Hmm, I'm sure there are a few I'm embarrassed about, but I'll pick Forces of Nature.

[emilo]

Forever, for sure!  I like this story, and it's my "indulgent" story, but there's definitely more to me as a writer.  Once upon a time, it was my #1 aspiration to publish a novel, and it certainly wouldn't be like that particular story!

[RokofAges75]

Is there any story of yours that if it was read, you'd be afraid to be judged solely by that story?

I really don't want to be judged on anything I wrote before Broken, which would be everything I write from 2000-2002.  The ones from 2000 are especially bad.  The ones from 2001-2002, like You'll Never Walk Alone,  Identical, Beside the Ocean, and Years of Grace are not as bad, but still not up to par with the stuff I wrote after Broken.  Broken is where I draw the line, and I wouldn't even want to be judged on the beginning of that.

[FrickingKaos]

Is there any story of yours that if it was read, you'd be afraid to be judged solely by that story?

This is What Happens When Chinchillas are Bored! LOL

For me i would say Incomplete. It's full of cliches and faux pas and I don't think.anyone would want to read my stuff if they read that one first.

[julilly]

Oh, another question from a discussion happening in the confessional thread! LOL

Is there any story of yours that if it was read, you'd be afraid to be judged solely by that story?

In a way this sort of belongs in the confessional but to be honest, judgement from my peers is a big point of stress for me.

I couldn't care less about knowing that hundreds of thousands of people could potentially be listening to my voice on the radio, if I knew someone I respected was listening I would be SO nervous.

It's the same way with my fics. I have mad respect for all of you. Especially since I don't have a lot of confidence in my own writing. That being said, it terrifies me to even know that any of you have read my stories lol Posting them online was such a leap, having people read them gives me a nervous stomach. I'd prefer not to be judged at all LOL but especially not for anything I wrote between 1999 and 2004.

[RokofAges75]

^ Aww, you don't need to worry about being judged here.  You're a talented writer!  I wish you'd write more often and post it, but I'm glad to see you participating so much in these threads lately.  That's a start!

I do understand, though.  That's how I feel about people in real life reading my writing.  I am not really like that around you all, but once in awhile I do write something that I'm nervous about posting for just that reason.  And I have discovered through meeting online friends in real life that I do not like to talk about my stories in real life.  It doesn't matter how much I've talked about them with those same people online; it's still awkward face to face!

[FrickingKaos]

I'm sure it's not a secret but I am always worried what people what will think of what I have written, I am really self conscious and nervous when it comes to that....I don't know why that is...maybe due to being bullied as a kid. I am getting better at dealing with it I think anyway.

[Rose]

Please don't judge me by Lost Souls or Blind Within The Shadows. Like they got reposted here but they were originally written in like 2000/2001 and seriously I was only 14/15. The writing is just downright embarrassing lmao.


I'm like Julie though, it's weird talking about your stories in person. Like hell the two of us collab and everything constantly but we'd make our private jokes. We wouldn't talk about everything we write face to face. It's weird for some reason lol.

[RokofAges75]

I just have to remind myself that while not everyone will like everything I write, there have always been people who liked my stories... even the old crappy stories... and so no matter what I write, there's always going to be some audience for it.  The size of the audience and who's in it may vary from story to story, but someone out there is going to want to read what I write.

When I write something that I'm afraid to post because it's too weird or too sad or too gory, I remind myself of all the other scenes I've written that were really weird or sad or gory that people loved.  I haven't posted anything on AC that didn't get a good reaction from at least one person (though maybe just one, for some stories LOL).  I figure as long as I can please just one other person than me, it's worth posting.

[RokofAges75]

Along the lines of what I said in my last post...

On AC, go into your Account Info and Reviews Received and look at your stats.  What is your highest-reviewed story?  How about your lowest-reviewed?  Why do you think these two stories got the amount of reviews they did?

[Rose]

My highest reviewed (solo/not collab) story is Remember Me This Way. While it's a total Nick angst fest it's really about the bromance too. I'd like to think it's so well reviewed because people loved the story. I've said this repeatedly but I feel like my best writing (or some of) went into that.

My highest reviewed fic over all is Song For The Undead and I think Julie and I have just done a great job. Like trend wise it's against all of them. It's AU, it's horror, it's long, and there's 5 original main characters along with the Boys. So I think that stands up on the writing we've done together since it was started BEFORE my fave show Walking Dead got everyone on the zombie train lol.

My lowest reviewed story is a fic called "Lost Souls" (that has a legit amount of chapters and isn't a oneshot). And that's pretty much because I was a very new writer in fanfic, only like 14/15 years old. So I was an unknown, I didn't know as much as I do now... lots of reasons really. It's a mess lol.

[RokofAges75]

My highest-reviewed is Curtain Call with 1,172 reviews.  It was helped by the fact that it's pretty long (90 chapters), although not Broken/BMS long.  But a lot of people just really liked that story!  It had a loyal following that left me reviews til the bitter end, and I guess that's how it racked up so many.  I'm very grateful!

My lowest-reviewed is a tie between two of my one-shots, Adelaide and Seduction of Evil, which both have 2 reviews.  Neither surprises me, since they're both old stories.  Adelaide is original fiction, so I didn't see the fanfic crowd getting into that one, and Seduction of Evil is kind of like a bad R.L. Stine story, so again... not surprised.  I think I only posted that one because I was one story away from having a nice round number next to my name on AC LOL.

My lowest-reviewed novel is Identical, with 5 reviews.  I think the main reason that number is so low is that I posted the whole story at once back in 2005, several years after I wrote it, so it wasn't like I was ever updating it on AC.  It's not my best work, either, but it's not a bad story.  It got pretty good feedback on my site back in the day.

[FrickingKaos]

my highest reviewed story is Figured You Out with a total of 309 reviews.

my lowest is my one shot challenge story Howie Snaps, it only has four...probabl y cause it is a Howie story and it is only two chapters long *shrugs*

It doesn't surprise me that FYO had so many reviews, it was well liked and a lot of people read it so I am quite pleased. I am just happy to even get one review, I never expected so many to like that story because I was scared to death to post it when I started to write it.

[Rose]

My lowest reviewed oneshot is a tie between one called "A New Era" which was about Nick's POV post Unbreakable. Which, I don't think it's bad. It's just thoughtful. Not sure why it went unnoticed lol.

The other is an AJ one called "Tough Lover" which is basically a psycho fan having AJ hostage told from her POV. I liked it but who knows why it got two reviews. I was shocked when it got nominated for something just because of that haha.