I'm glad I decided not to go with that fan fiction website that expressed interest in putting my stories on there...I'd have to write a new complete story every single month--and it's not that I couldn't do that, but, would I even want to?

I have two fan fiction blogs, devoted to Dr Who. One, is older stories from 2006-2007, the other is newer fiction...all "ten" stories, written for the most part within the last 12 months. While nearly all this fiction had been previously posted on various blogs and two fan-fic websites, in June I decided to put them altogether...the older fic on one blog, the new stuff on another.

I looked at the stats for those two websites. On the newer Dr Who fiction website, in the last 7 months, I've had a sum total of 412 visitors. Even tho' I'm mathematically disabled, I do figure that to average about a half a visitor a day. The most popular post, "Rain of Terror" (probably only because it's first on the list), in 7 months, has been looked at (but not necessarily read) 214 times. I reckon that comes out to almost one whole visit to that story a day, in the last roughly 200+ days. Wow, aren't I a popular fan-fiction author??? ;D

Maybe I should send a sample portfolio to Russell T. Davies. :wave:

Erm--maybe not. |-|

I'm not complaining, honest. Every few months or so, someone comes along and tells me he or she enjoyed one of my stories, and that never fails to knock my socks off, in sheer amazement. I mean, I just get so chuffed when someone says I made them happy 'cos I wrote some daft thing I made up at (usually) two or three O'clock in the morning.

Really, I am not a popular fan-fic writer, partly 'cos I don't do "Who-porn," but, mostly I think, because I nearly always prefer to write in actual proper (if slightly shorter) paragraphs--I REFUSE to dumb down my writing for a certain segment of educationally lazy Dr Who fans. I figure I was reading proper books with proper paragraphs by age 9, and I don't reckon today's kids are stupid, and they do the same...it's, sadly, some of the teens to adults that seem to have a serious problem reading paragraphs online. No idea why...I read boooks and newspapers online all the time...with proper paragraphs.

Another reason I'm not a popular Who-fic author, is that I sometimes write quite long stories, and some people prefer short-short stories...which is fine. I sometimes do, as well. I mean, one time I may be engrossed in a short story by Raymond Chandler ("Goldfish," "Nevada Gas") or Mary E. Wilkins Freeman ("The Revolt of Mother," "Old Woman Magoun"), and then another time, prefer something lighter, like from Louis L'Amour ("The Sixth Shotgun," "Off the Mangrove Coast")... or even Dave Eggers' short-short stories in the Guardian. :roll:

Heck, I'll even read the back of a cereal box, or the Sun online, if I get desperate enough. :yes:

Also, I really never have spent any time in the classroom, studying how to write fiction...I honestly haven't a clue, so I my fiction stories can be written a bit haphazardly. Sometimes, writing is a joy, and sometimes...it just feels like work. And, I'm guessing that that may show up in my writing sometimes as well...like with chapter two of Evil Waters that I posted on here yesterday morning--well, this morning, it's not even 9 o'clock at night here, yet. I wrote it, 'cos I just wanted to get on with it, and I imagine that it would reflect that.

Someone suggested I transfer my stories from Wordpress to blog.co.uk--not sure why. If anyone is actually reading this post, and would like to give their opinon of this idea, I'd welcome the feedback.