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janecarnall (janecarnall) wrote,
@ 2009-09-06 20:37:00

Current mood:	amused
Entry tags:	mas*h, meta, my fanfic

An odd side-effect of SurveyFail
A while ago, Dusk Petersen noted to me that a problem with my website was that none of my stories had blurbs: I acknowledged that I write lousy blurbs and prefer "none" to "lousy".

One of the questions in SurveyFail (Q54) was "If you write m/m slash, how do you study male anatomy and physiology in order to write more convincing stories?"

and as both the question and all of the multiple-choice answers contained too many false assumptions to be answerable, in comments to a post discussing that and other poorly-worded questions, I listed the topics I researched for Sins & Virtues.

Six people in the next six days asked me for a link to the story. To give perspective, I think the total number of people who ever read Sins & Virtues prior to 1st September this year is something like 15. (I sent out a dozen hard copies: not all of those got read...)

Okay. I really do need to write blurbs. Even crappy blurbs which consist entirely of a list of research topics.

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	duskpeterson 2009-09-20 04:51 am UTC (link)
	"I think the total number of people who ever read Sins & Virtues prior to 1st September this year is something like 15." (One of the 15 waves hand wildly.) (Reply to this) (Thread)

	janecarnall 2009-09-20 09:42 am UTC (link)
	Really? Oh well, 16 then. beams Did you like it? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	duskpeterson 2009-09-26 05:57 pm UTC (link)
	Loved it. It's stored away on my hard drive for future rereading. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	I've got a horrible MASH jones, sherrold.dreamwidth.org 2009-10-21 10:26 pm UTC (link)
	the link to "Fidelity is in the Heart" is still to Greatest Journal, and blurb or no blurb, I'm curious. Any chance you have a copy to go on your website? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Oh, and I read Sins and Virtues long ago sherrold.dreamwidth.org 2009-10-21 10:28 pm UTC (link)
	and have the horrible feeling I never loc'd, despite loving it terribly. It completely changed my view of practically every character in it; basically you rewired the way I see the canon, and not many stories can do that. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Did you? Good grief

janecarnall
2009-11-12 08:44 pm UTC (link)

and have the horrible feeling I never loc'd,

No, you never did. I wasn't aware you were even into M*A*S*H. As far I know - based on locs and verbal comments - there were about 15 people who read Sins and Virtues start to finish. Nobody rec'd it, aside from

whatho at my request on the M*A*S*Hslash community on livejournal. I'd come to think, really, that it was just as well I liked it so much, because I spent two years working on it and then it just kind of sank without a trace - not even all of the people I sent paper copies to read it.

despite loving it terribly. It completely changed my view of practically every character in it; basically you rewired the way I see the canon, and not many stories can do that.

Very cool! Oh well, it's nice to know now you liked it - plus, you know, all that rewiring work. I suspect that's probably why it sank, and so few people finished reading it and no one wanted to recommend it to anyone - it was just too long and too complicated and too out-there and too different.

Someone shrieked at me when I mentioned years ago I was getting into House that I must absolutely stay away, I'd already spoiled M*A*S*H and what would I do to House? Ironically, (a) I have never had a drier spell of writing without actually being blocked, and (b) when it comes to House as far as I can tell I am rigidly conventional ... it's the first fandom in years where I've actually been mainly a fan of the main pairing.

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	Re: I've got a horrible MASH jones, altissima 2009-11-12 07:17 pm UTC (link)
	It's here on IJ at http://janecarnall.insanejournal.com/24247.html [relurks] (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Thank you! janecarnall 2009-11-12 08:45 pm UTC (link)
	Thanks! For some reason, I didn't get these two comments from Sherrold in my mail. :-( (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Re: I've got a horrible MASH jones, janecarnall 2009-11-12 08:48 pm UTC (link)
	Sorry - I didn't get this via Squeaky, I don't know why. (Reply to this) (Parent)