Respect the readers!
Said that remember:
To put your fic on the net means you want someone to read it. If you don't
want it to be read don't put it in the net but keep it in your desk table.
To read a fic needs time. A person who does it doesn't get paid. He doesn't
do it for having a better culture or a personal gain except to have some
fun. So that's only natural and fair a reader could wish to give you his
feedback. That's nice if you would answer to everyone who write you at least
for thanking him/her. If you know you will never be able to answer to the
readers' feedback it would be fair to warn them with a small disclaimer at
the end of the fic. To write feedback means to spend time in the net and
spending time in the net is hardly for free.
Feedback can be negative. Not all have to like your fic. It's only in your
own maturity to accept it for improving your writing ability.
Sadly feedback can be stupid too. Many readers can disagree with what you
wrote for reasons that aren't intelligent at all and you can be thankful
when they at least choose to tell you their reasons. Sometime, sadly, they will
choose to not even try to explain themselves. Be patient and choose
how to act case by case. If someone is not agreeing with you, you can try
explaining your point of view. If someone is flaming you just cause he/she
thinks is vision of the world is the only one that deserves to exist is
better if you ignore him/her. To argue with little children means only
you're going to loose your time. You'll better wait they become mature and
then talk with them. If they are too stubborn for understanding they are being
childish or just plain annoying, well maybe you should inform them. Likely
they will not stop but at least they will learn what it means to be
criticized and that not all are willing to deal with babies.
If you're going to put in your fic contents that can be offensive or for
mature audience (lemon, yaoi, yuri, violence, swearing) warn your readers.
It avoid you flames from people who doesn't like that sort of things,
problems with children who incidentally read it and it's only fair toward
your readers. Besides doing it doesn't ask you a lot of time.
The most common language in the net is English. If you aren't English but
you can/are able to translate in English your fic do it! You will surely
have more readers and make happy people who can't read your language.
Long fics ask a lot of time for being ended. If you find out you have no
free time anymore or wish to end it warn the readers and maybe give them
a summary of how you were planning to end it. Remember is always annoying
to spend hours reading a fic, wondering on his possible end paying daily
visit to the web in which it's hosted and discover not only your curiosity
will never be satiated but that the writer chose long ago to stop writing
it.
Is someone asking you if he/she can put your fic on his/her page, use your
characters or your situations or continue your fic? Well what does it cost
answer yes? You too are using characters and situations who aren't completely
yours (Studio Pierrot and WEP are the only ones who own SB and SRaTSS.
Oh and yes maybe some companies who brought the rights from them. Everyone
else who said the contrary is simply lying.) so you can't really blame
someone who's homaging you admiring your work so much he/she wish to use
it for creating another NOT PROFIT work. Just remember asking them to give
credits to your work and maybe to put a link at it. Accepting can give life
to new wonderful work, interesting cooperation and give you suggestions
for your new works and info about how the readers see the world you created.
If you really don't feel like seeing your work used by another person (it
can happen and there's nothing wrong in it either) maybe it will be nice
if you explain him/her. You have no reason to be offended so please don't
be.
REMEMBER ALWAYS THE MOST IMPORTANT RULE:
Fans should be unite and don't argue for stupid reasons among themselves!
We're sharing a passion, let's make it productive and pleasurable and not
an excuse for starting battling between us!
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Respect the writers!
Said that remember:
Before to read the fic read the warnings. If you don't want to read a fic
with contents you don't like, aren't for your age, you think offensive
read the warnings. If you don't do it you have only yourself to blame and
surely not the author.
To write a fic means to spend time doing it. A lot of it. It isn't an easy
work at all. All that many readers ask in exchange of sharing their
intellectual work with you is to know your opinion about it. Let them know
it!
Writers haven't necessary to share your ideas about how something have
to be. To have a different vision of the world, to put together a different
couple, to create a different future can't be blamed. You can, of course
express your opinion, but remember 'different ideas' don't means 'bad fics'.
Beside nobody force you to read fics you don't like. If you can't at all
share the author's idea skip his/her works.
Write constructive feedback. It helps the author doing better works you will
be able to read after. To write 'your fic is horrible' or 'I don't like what
you write at all' means nothing. Explain your reasons or writers will think
you have no reasons at all.
Hurting feedback or flaming feedback is the most stupid thing an intelligent
being can do. Keep that in mind and prove your intelligence and maturity not
doing it.
Not all the authors have the chance to answer at your feedback or to answer
at it immediately. And not all the feedbacks arrives in the right mailbox...
(Yep, that's true. I received a couple of mails that weren't directed to me...
Remember always to type carefully the address!) If you don't receive an
answer after many days and many tentative it could simply means the author
can't answer at you. Don't take it as an offence. World is full of writers
who're anxious to answer to your feedback.
As already mentioned to write a fic ask time. A LOT OF IT (as my Latin
teacher would say 'repetita iuvant'... or something similar ^_^ In other
words 'To repeat help'). Do not expect they will pop out of nowhere. What
you read in half an hour can const days of work. Writers need time and
inspiration for doing them. And sadly the time needed can be a lot. To
write fics is not their paid work they have to deal with real life troubles
as work, school, illness, home troubles, broken pc, other activities and
yes, absences from home or holidays too. It's sad but this can means they
have the right to make you wait a lot for reading another fic from them. And
yes they can choose too to stop writing. In each moment of their life. You
can be sorry, you can be desperate (in some cases I was) but don't blame
them for that. As soon as you'll try to write a fic you'll understand what
I mean.
A fic writer can make writing errors. Maybe more of what you can consider
acceptable cause he/she could be writing in a language who isn't his/her
own. If you want to be of some help instead of blaming the author tell
him/her his/hers mistakes or the sentences you can't understand.
And, this should be obvious but there is still someone who forget it, no,
you can't declare fics as yours when they're not or use them or the
characters/situation inside them without the author's permission (and remember
the author have the right to refuse his/her permission. He/she's not forced
to say yes only cause you have all planned or whatever other reason...).
They're his/her intellectual property from which he/she is not gaining
money at all. Stealing them is rude, cruel, hurting, stupid and illegal so
please don't.
REMEMBER ALWAYS THE MOST IMPORTANT RULE:
Fans should be unite and don't argue for stupid reasons among themselves!
We're sharing a passion, let's make it productive and pleasurable and not
an excuse for starting battling between us!
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