As some of you (well, probably all ten of you.  Yes, I apparently have ten people reading my blog.  That is nine more than I had expected) are probably aware, I’m a bit of a masochist in regards to my creative ventures.  As you’re probably also aware, I can afford to – humble I am not.  I mean, christ, you’re reading the words of the girl who wrote crack!fic for the lawls and to piss off a fandom.  Sadly, I (mostly) failed.  I got one person crazy pissed at me, but she was a superfan of my other fics.  Yes, I was a fifteen year old writing crappy Artemis Fowl fanfics and I had superfans.  Superfans that stalked me for years.  Don’t ask me to explain it – I don’t get it myself.  Travis says it’s because I’m better at writing than I give myself credit for.  I, personally, attribute it to my ability to write for my audience… since my audience is myself and apparently there are people like me in the world.  That, and my rarely tapped ability to be charming.

So, yeah, ego.  An ego that was stroked for years due to being the one artist and writer in one group of friends and then further fueled by the interwebs.  Needless to say, I’m an excellent candidate for experimenting on creative groups – I have more interest in the numbers and what they represent than how they reflect on my own work.  Hence my current experiment on the Castle fandom regarding review to read ratios, speed of reading and quality of reviews between FF.Net and the castle_fic LJ comm.  I mean, hey, if I’m going to be writing Castle fic like the fantard that I am, I may as well get some data out of it.

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