Come on ff.net people ...

[sholio]

HOW hard is it to post pairing warnings/notices on your stories? This is really getting quite ridiculous. I've clicked on quite a number of promising-looking stories on ff.net lately and started reading, only to be blindsided by an unexpected pairing. And you know, this isn't just me speaking as a primarily gen-reader here; regardless of whether a person prefers reading het, gen or slash, usually they have certain preferred pairings and others that mildly squick ... it would be nice to be *warned*!

*steps off soapbox*

I finished another ficathon story today (the other "hard" one) and will have it up here in a day or two. Not sure yet if I'll post it on ff.net. This means that I have just one ficathon story to go, which is actually going to be a multi-chapter one, and I'll probably start posting chapters fairly soon.

Hard to believe I'm almost done!

After that, I have two unfinished stories to work on ("Ghost" and the "Fading Sun" au) plus a variety of others that I've started over the last few months, such as a "Running on Empty" sequel. And I really want to write a Jeannie-centric story ... maybe a sequel to "Postcards" ... oh, so many possibilities!

Comments

[blade-girl.livejournal.com]

You're right, it really IS hard to find gen stuff on LJ. And I've been tempted to volunteer to stargateficrec as well, but have the same problem you alluded to - finding the stuff! We need to form a coalition or something.

[friendshipper.livejournal.com]

Aha, it's not just me! I wonder if there's any rule on stargateficrec about not rec'ing ff.net stories, because that's where I'm finding most of the gen that I read -- but people never seem to rec ff.net on there.

We should both volunteer. Maybe the community just needs more of a gen reader presence. They do have some SG-1 gen rec'ers; there's just a real dearth of it on the SGA side.

That reminds me that I need to rec more stuff over at stargategenrec, too. Same problem though ... having trouble finding stories! (And time.)

[blade-girl.livejournal.com]

I'm also not too sure how much interest there is in gen SGA fic on LJ. Most of the community seems to prefer slash and het, if the bulk of the output we see in the newsletter is any indication.

[friendshipper.livejournal.com]

It's a little discouraging at times, to see so *little* gen available on LJ. However, I had a theory back when I was writing in anime fandoms that "if you write it, they will come" with regards to gen. Most anime fandoms are overwhelmingly focused on slash and on het pairings -- and yet I used to get really good responses to my gen stories, and so did the handful of other gen writers that I knew. It seemed as if no one was writing it, and yet everyone was hungry for it. They just didn't tend to *write* it because the community "norms" were slash or het. It was what aspiring writers saw all around them, so it was the mold in which they tended to think. People didn't break out of that very often. I wonder if something similar might be going on in SGA LJ fandom. I know that I've gotten quite a few comments on my stories along the lines of "I don't normally read gen, but I liked this" or "I haven't seen much gen, but this was good" ... stuff like that.