And as I mentioned, I don't have much since the forum I planned to focus on isn't as active--at least in the fanfic-specific part--as I'd thought it was (my post asking for feedback on my fic has received exactly 0 replies, even though 16 people have read it). Anyway, my focus has changed or narrowed a bit, or at least I hope it has; because I find fandom in general and fanfiction in particular fascinating as a community-based writing practice and as a discourse/literacy in its own right, I'll still be looking at that, but I'll do so in the context of my own writing in the Doctor Who fandom. I'll probably still do some of that at Gallifrey Base, but since I'm very new there and the fanfiction board isn't terribly active except for established writers, I'll be interacting elsewhere as well. I already post fanfic (well...when I finish it, and...I haven't finished one since last July. That is sad) at Fanfiction.net, a multifandom fanfic site, and at A Teaspoon and an Open Mind, a Doctor Who fanfiction site; I also maintain my own personal writing journal, which hosts all my fanfics, plus fanmixes and original writing (my original fiction is behind a friends-lock for copyright purposes, but anything published elsewhere is public). This personal journal tends to be the most versatile, since Livejournal is host to hundreds of fandom-specific communities where members can post their fanfiction for feedback, allowing me to link easily between posts there and my original posts at my journal. I've listed these cross-postings in each entry--for instance, "The Lost Boy," a Doctor Who/Harry Potter crossover, is cross-posted at two general fanfiction communities, one Doctor Who community, one Harry Potter fanfic community, two communities dedicated to Doctor Who crossovers, and two more for all crossovers.
Having my fanfics posted even at three different locations around the internet makes things a little complicated, since I get different reviews from different people at each place; that's why I started the writing journal on Livejournal in the first place, since it allowed me to gather more of my fanfic in one place and link to it there. Still, my few existing Doctor Who fics do allow me to compile some data, which I'll be able to continue with as I write more and interact in these various communities. Just from glancing over my statistics at each site, I've noticed something interesting: at ff.net, my three Doctor Who fics are about equally popular (13 reviews each for two crossovers, 9 reviews for a shorter single-fandom fic). On my personal journal, the shorter, more recently written crossover experienced decent popularity: almost 20 positive comments, a recommendation on the personal journal of someone I didn't know, and an award in the Best Crossover category at a multifandom fanfic award site. The other two have no reviews, despite having cross-posted the longer crossover to almost as many communities as the shorter one (the remaining fic hasn't been cross-posted to any communities yet). At Teaspoon, however, the situation is almost the opposite: "The Lost Boy," the crossover popular elsewhere, has 0 reviews; the longer crossover has 2, while the single-fandom Doctor Who fic has 9 positive reviews.
There are plenty of variables here, of course, like the people who happened to stumble across each fic when it was originally posted, the number of places to which I cross-posted them, the length of each fic, and so on. It does appear at first glance, though, that--if nothing else--Teaspoon is less friendly to crossovers than multifandom archives tend to be...but then, I don't really have enough data to state that at all firmly. I'd be interested in looking at this more as I write and post more fic, though, especially since I have two fics I can think of that are semi-close to being finished--one is a long crossover, and the other is a shorter single-fandom Doctor Who fic.
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