10-06-2008

I'm currently reading a really fabulous WIP—Helen Pattskyn's Torchwood story "Forget Me Not" (/s/4567675/1/ForgetNotMe). It's everything I usually avoid in fan fiction, AU, set WAY in the future, brutal, sad, but it's incredibly well written, touching and gripping. (You do need to be familiar with Torchwood and there are references to things from her previous stories, so there's a lot to read before you get to this tale, but believe me, it's worth the effort. And maybe by the time you read the rest of her stuff, this story will be finished so unlike me, you won't have to be obsessively checking your e-mail to see if there's a new chapter posted.) It was published a week ago and has (as of this moment) 51 reviews, almost all begging for her to write quickly.

Now, I've written four stories, and between them, they've gotten more than 23,000 hits. And a total of 37 reviews, many of them from the same wonderful reviewers. It occurs to me that as I post the stories as complete tales and don't beg for reviews, that there's not much incentive to comment. It would kind of be nice to know if I'm just spinning my wheels, though. I mean, I figure by the time you've slogged through somewhere between seven and 30,000 words, you must have an opinion. Mind letting me know whether you've enjoyed the stories or feel like you just wasted your time? Worth writing more?

Oh, and if you're a Torchwood /Janto fan, even if, like me, AU and crossovers are not your thing, check out Helen Pattskyn. I think you'll be glad you did.

BTW, if you've already ready my stories, I haven't updated the stories themselves, just added comments and made some formatting changes, so don't work too hard looking for the changes.