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Aug. 15th, 2003 10:48 amYou know, for all the yammering going on about how awful SV fen are . . . I have yet to have a bad experience with any of them.
Everyone I've been lucky enough to interact with has been unfailingly pleasant, unbelievably helpful, and unswervingly kind.
I have yet to meet anyone who seems to be gratuitously cruel, outrageously mean, or slavishly nasty.
Then again, I'm not as closely involved in fandom as are many others. I don't participate in discussion lists ( having long ago wearied of flame wars ) and I'm pretty much just hanging out on LJ, going, "Ooh, pretty." Some fic from time to time, but nothing huge.
And speaking of fic, SV has the reputation, apparently, as the fandom that eats its young writers.
Nobody's tried to eat me. Maybe I should be disappointed?
When I've asked for responses, I've received them. When I've requested constructive criticism, I've gotten that. When I've looked for betas, people have jumped up to help out . . . and if I'm a little grouchy about their suggestions, it's only because I'm lazy and fixing the story means doing more work.
So in sum . . . I blow kisses in the direction of all the SV people I know.
Because it sounds like you probably need them. :)>
Everyone I've been lucky enough to interact with has been unfailingly pleasant, unbelievably helpful, and unswervingly kind.
I have yet to meet anyone who seems to be gratuitously cruel, outrageously mean, or slavishly nasty.
Then again, I'm not as closely involved in fandom as are many others. I don't participate in discussion lists ( having long ago wearied of flame wars ) and I'm pretty much just hanging out on LJ, going, "Ooh, pretty." Some fic from time to time, but nothing huge.
And speaking of fic, SV has the reputation, apparently, as the fandom that eats its young writers.
Nobody's tried to eat me. Maybe I should be disappointed?
When I've asked for responses, I've received them. When I've requested constructive criticism, I've gotten that. When I've looked for betas, people have jumped up to help out . . . and if I'm a little grouchy about their suggestions, it's only because I'm lazy and fixing the story means doing more work.
So in sum . . . I blow kisses in the direction of all the SV people I know.
Because it sounds like you probably need them. :)>
