Drussius wrote...
You've come to the right place indeed. There are many talented writers in this thread, and many of us are also avid readers. And I apologize if the impression you got from my suggestion before was that posting it as a download was creepy. I was only trying to help in case the people who saw your post were paranoid - like me - and leery of downloading it. Plus, many of us have FF.net profiles, which allows us to add the story to our lists of follows or whatnot so we don't have to hunt for it later.
As for a lack of attention, you originally posted only 6 days ago, and 94,000 words is a lot to read. Maybe people simply haven't finished getting through it all yet. I know that personally, given family, kids, work, and my own writing... which takes up a lot of my free time... 94,000 words would take me a couple weeks at least to get through. And I probably will give your story a look on FF.net eventually myself. But I do have a list of fanfics I have yet to read that I promised to get to, so it may take time.
Regardless of my own time-issues, welcome to our little thread, and I'm sure someone here will inevitably have a look before long.
Oh, and side note, including links to your work in your signature line couldn't hurt either. Many of us do, and if you're active elsewhere on the forums, it couldn't hurt any to let people see the link that way.
Thanks for your response. Well, don't worry. I understand that people are reluctant to download files from pages they don't trust. It's the internet, after all, and its first rule is not to trust anyone. While I felt that rapidshare is generally a reliable and clean file host, I complied with the request to put it on FF.net as well.
And also thanks for the advice. Some sig-advertisement probably wouldn't hurt. =)
MrStoob wrote...
Hi beyondsolo
FF link doesn't work
in the post (found it through your username). Did you copy from the
temp address rather than the permanent? I'd recommend putting a link in
your signature to drum up custom.
94k words over 17 chapters is
definitely going to put some readers off, so might be worth re-jigging
to more palatable chunks. OC fan fics will usually receive less
attention than the original characters that people are interested in
reading more about. I haven't given your fic a proper read yet, but the
structure, grammar, English, spelling, speech, etc. seem fine.
This
is probably personal opinion but " They were stuck on a planet full of
bat**** crazy colonists." isn't a line I'd usually expect to see in the
narrative.
2 cents, thrown in 
Thanks for the heads-up. The link should be fixed now. I understand that it's quite a chunk to read. Originally I uploaded the whole story as one chapter, but then I decided in favor of splitting it up. But yeah, my idea was to actually write a standardish-sized novel, which deviates from what I work on otherwise.
As for the planet full of crazy colonists, if you read the whole text, you'll find that--while most of the time I stick to a rather pragmatic and standard style--sometimes the characters' own thoughts invade the voice of the narrator. So yeah, he's not a very reliable one when it comes down to perspective and judgement. ;-)
Retour en haut
Wrote close to 8500 words in my fic, wrote a small paper due next week, and finished my school-related readings for the weekend. 
