Feeling stupid about this, but...

[camwyn]

Guys? Those of you who've read any of the VicMage.Asia stuff... would you please comment on it, or something? Tell me what you think. Tell me it sucks. Tell me what you want to see. Tell me if any of it makes any sense, or if I'm being too obscure, or if you wanna play in it, or if I'm putting too much effort into something that only I and one other person care about. Anything. Please. I put it out here to find out what people think about it, and right now I'm running on two paged MUSH comments and a conversation with someone who will never be involved in the game. I don't care how savage you get about it if you dislike it, just tell me what you think of it. In detail. So I can fix it, or do whatever to it.

You have no idea how much I want to run this game, or write real fiction in this setting - although the fiction is mostly surfacing because I know I can't run the game until cadhla's game is over. But I want to know someone else is at least vaguely interested in it, and what, specifically, they're interested in or want to see...

*sigh* Sorry. I'll go get a drink of water now. I hate it when I get this worked up, I always feel like the world's biggest moron afterwards for making mountains of insecurity out of molehills of legitimate things. I'm really sorry.

Comments

[kyrielle]

I enjoy the stories, in a sort of casual way. I think they're well-presented, the tone is fascinating, and I hope you'll right more.

I don't, generally, get very tempted by mage - I had to sort of coax myself to try signing up for a game and, as far as I can tell, that game's not going to happen. Couple that with a relative lack of interest in Asia, and I'm very unlikely to play in the game, or to get as much out of the fiction pieces as others will.

But I do find them enjoyable.

[kyrielle]

I also think I need to learn to spell "write". *blushing*

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

Sorry. I haven't been commenting here in weeks. I've barely been reading. Not really sure what's wrong with me...I haven't been doing /anything/.

The first story....I don't really remember, honestly. I remember thinking I didn't really know what was going on. The second story was very good in terms of characterization. I'd be very excited about it, because that bodes well for NPCs...except, well, I'm not being very excited about /anything/ right now. Blah.

I am really looking forward to the game, though. And I do eagerly read anything you put up.

[camwyn]

Well, the first story was a little weird anyway. I mean, all I was getting was the dialogue. I'll keep that in mind for future, though. Thank you.

[lwood.livejournal.com]

I liked them! And they were so very clearly *yours*, I could imagine you, even after all these years, reading them and they sounded right coming from yoru mouth.

But don't be surprised if you don't get much feedback from tacking original fiction up. Most of my friends list is made up of fanfic writers, for example, who all know full well the value of feedback, but they're lousy at giving it too -- hang in there!

Because in the end, the story you'll tell is the story what needs tellin', the one that you can't not tell.

How went that novel you were working on, the one where I wanted to name that planet Feh and you (wisely!) whapped me?

-- Lorrie

[camwyn]

Still working on it, albeit in a horribly different form. SF novel set in the next century or so. Systems and their components tend to get named within the cultural mythos of whoever noticed and accurately described the planets first; in this case it was all Celtic names, so you've got a star named Tara, and planets named Coblynau, Sidh, and Dagda (that last is a gas giant). There was one world that got a Norse name instead after they discovered how incredibly weird it was, it's an awfully cold world with wrong-way-round proteins, they call it Hoder... but no Feh.

I loved it.

[quintus.livejournal.com]

Sorry for not commenting sooner, have been at the bottom of a mental well.

It's wonderful stuff, I am envious!

Re: I loved it.

[camwyn]

That's all right, hon, it happens. I just wasn't sure if anyone was even reading, let alone giving a rat's bum. It's not like I can attach a counter to the story or anything, yanno?

[porpentine.livejournal.com]

Given I am the king of down, no need to apologize here or feel bad afterward, as far as I'm concerned. I'm liking reading a lot, I've just been swamped and not really responding to much at all. Hoping to do more than just read at some point too, just don't have any mental wherewithal to even come close to having an idea of -what-.

But...I know what it's like to not get any responses at all to stuff you're working so hard on, either. sorry. Will pull head up and be more vocal in the future.

[camwyn]

Heh. That's okay, I didn't even realize you were reading it. Thank you for offering to respond, though, I really do appreciate that...

Okay, it's 4:33 and my office's server seems to be relatively okay with regards to the Klez virus, so I AM GOING HOME NOW. The system will have to do without me for a while.

Thanks again, though. Seriously.

[penguinzero.livejournal.com]

I not only enjoyed both stories, but they've got me contemplating joining in the game, if I have the time. Quite possibly as a native character of some sort -- Ainu wanderer, tinkering Chinese alchemist, itenerant sage of one religion or another, that sort of thing. Despite the fact that I'm only vaguely conversant with the setting. Just little things like towing your enemy's capital city home with you tend to spark my imagination...