...to all fanfic authors in my f-list. How often do you get new reviews for fanfics that have been up for a while? Apart, I mean, from wholly new work?
Well, I'll put in my two cents here, even though I'm oldskool fandom and don't have anything on the internet.
Back in the fanzine-only days, editors would pass on copies of letters of comment (LOCs) to their authors, and sometimes print them in the next issue of their zine, if it was an ongoing one. I also got feedback in person when I was at cons--more than once I had a stranger hear my name and tell me they liked something I'd written, which is a nice little bit of egoboo. ;D
In non-net fandom, though, the comments would die off after a while--once a zine had been out a year or so, you didn't get much feedback unless there was a surge of new people into the fandom.
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Date: 2009-01-19 09:29 pm (UTC)Back in the fanzine-only days, editors would pass on copies of letters of comment (LOCs) to their authors, and sometimes print them in the next issue of their zine, if it was an ongoing one. I also got feedback in person when I was at cons--more than once I had a stranger hear my name and tell me they liked something I'd written, which is a nice little bit of egoboo. ;D
In non-net fandom, though, the comments would die off after a while--once a zine had been out a year or so, you didn't get much feedback unless there was a surge of new people into the fandom.