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[tielan]

One of the goals I set myself earlier this year was to write 12 Teyla, team-centric, or Teyla/John longfics (over 10,000 words).

Thinking back, it was a slightly ambitious goal; I've since discarded it. In spite of people insisting that John/Teyla is now "popular", there's just no audience or enthusiasm for this pairing. Hell, I wrote a 60,000-word story for it and got maybe ten pieces of feedback - ten people who thought it was a good story. So, no, this isn't a pairing that anyone wants to encourage, which, to me, means it's not a pairing anyone wants to read. Forget about a sequel.

And no, the direction of the show (no Teyla, no John/Teyla interaction) isn't helping.

So, there'll probably be a lot less John/Teyla work coming out of me in future. In the absence of anything to be excited by, and the absence of anyone being encouraging, I'm not going to bother. I've done my time, tried to prompt people who can't be bothered to move their asses, tried to teach people who don't want to learn, tried to encourage people who are mediocre to lift their game, tried to be uplifting and cheerful and positive.

Enough.

Comments

[raksha38.livejournal.com]

Forget about a sequel.

*falls to knees* NOOOOO!!!



I hear you, though. As sad as I am to hear you say this, sometimes enough is enough. Burnout is a big problem, even in more popular corners of various fandoms, and it's an even bigger problem when you feel like you're single handedly (or at least nearly so) trying to keep everything going. Sounds like the best thing for you to do is to take a step back and give yourself some breathing room. Fuck fandom, fuck having an audience, fuck the show even. If you want to write something just because the spirit moves you (and from a selfish perspective, I hope you do from time to time), then that's fantabulous. But it sounds to me like the time has passed for you to make yourself do it for any other reason whatsoever.

(((hugs)))

[tielan]

Uh, you're not one of the people who'[ve left feedback for Astonishing Persistence Of Memory.

Ergo, I presumed you didn't like the story and didn't particularly care if there was a sequel or not.

[azure-horizon.livejournal.com]

I don't think I left feedback at the actual story but I e-mailed you about it, didn't I? :s

[raksha38.livejournal.com]

Nuh-uh, I left feedback! My real life decided to actually start resembling a life for once, so I didn't get a chance to read the story for a few days, so when I finally did and I came back to leave feedback, I got distracted by the other posts and while I was leaving writing prompts in this post (http://tielan.livejournal.com/287127.html), I decided to go ahead and put my comment there, since I was already posting anyway. I'm sorry, I thought for sure you'd see it!

I wrote:
"Also, I hope you do finish your Big Bang sequel eventually, because I would love more of that storyline! My sister came into town last week and things have been crazy, so I just today got to finish the story and DAMN! You make it hurt so good. Honestly, you could be a professional writer, and I'm not just saying that. The last person I said that to actually got published (my love isn't always the kiss of death!)."


I'll make it up to you. I'll go back and leave something more substantial, in the right post this time! But it'll have to wait until tomorrow or the day after when I get my new pain meds, cuz right now I've got to get off this computer before my arms cease functioning entirely.