Bob Schroeck wrote:

Raye Johnsen wrote:

I do believe I can be forgiven for
deciding that the FFML is no longer a place where I
will find decent concrit.  And at least FFN doesn't
pretend that IT is.

I haven't actually found it to be hostile as you have (with
one or two specific exceptions), just ... apathetic.  Like I
said elsewhere, the list is little more than a distribution
channel as far as I'm concerned.

	Which is definitely sad, b/c one of the things that attracted me to the 
FFML in the first place (IIRC, I stumbled into it via one of the 
archives whilst Googling for this new phenomenon 'fanfiction', which I'd 
also stumbled across by way of Eyrie and Chris Davies, but I digress) 
was the commentary exchanges -- the multi-party conversations between 
author and C&Cers that could spring up when some really good exchanges 
got going.  One of my favorite archived pieces is actually Don 
Granberry's (wish he'd write more) C&C of Susan Doenime's (*really* wish 
she'd write again) "PastPresent: Tourism."  The commentary was nearly as 
fun to read as the story itself.
	That interaction, which is much rarer but still happens these days, was 
*the* main thing that drew me to the FFML.  I wish I knew how to bring 
it back (aside from C&Cing more myself, which I *want* to do, but am 
restricted by RL time pressures...)



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