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Fanfiction progress
19 July 2018 01:34 amAn Unfair Advantagewas far more successful on fanfiction.net than I'd expected (for some reason my one-shots always seem to do better than my longer stories; maybe people find them more accessible for casual browsing?), with 119 visitors and ten reviews in two days. And people actually seemed to find it funny (unlike my previous attempts at 'humour', which were more a matter of ironic situations).
I still don't think it's as good as my other one-shots, but for a story that features their beloved Phantom being bested by a minor character it seems to have gone down amazingly well in the fandom. Admittedly the summary and opening scene are deliberately misleading in terms of E/C cliché, but the high number of appreciative reviews suggests that people genuinely were enjoying it (as well as actually bothering to click on it in the first place, which tends not to happen for updates to my multi-chapter fanfic!)
I've completed one chapter of Nautical Raoul for the Swedish story, roughly corresponding to the first sentence of plot point seven, although since all the material covering the next few weeks is basically an extraneous patch job to cover up the geographical error in the original plot, I'm not going to be able to tick much of it off for a long time...
I did hope that writing Raoul would be less laborious than writing ad nauseam about Christine and Erik's situation, but I'm not sure it is -- I've just got to the stage in the book at which everything feels like a long haul. ( new characters )
I still don't think it's as good as my other one-shots, but for a story that features their beloved Phantom being bested by a minor character it seems to have gone down amazingly well in the fandom. Admittedly the summary and opening scene are deliberately misleading in terms of E/C cliché, but the high number of appreciative reviews suggests that people genuinely were enjoying it (as well as actually bothering to click on it in the first place, which tends not to happen for updates to my multi-chapter fanfic!)
I've completed one chapter of Nautical Raoul for the Swedish story, roughly corresponding to the first sentence of plot point seven, although since all the material covering the next few weeks is basically an extraneous patch job to cover up the geographical error in the original plot, I'm not going to be able to tick much of it off for a long time...
I did hope that writing Raoul would be less laborious than writing ad nauseam about Christine and Erik's situation, but I'm not sure it is -- I've just got to the stage in the book at which everything feels like a long haul. ( new characters )