I'm doing my (now) normal Sunday writing extravaganza. I am plugging away at the long fic and getting chapter 30 of RBTL ready. But yesterday, I got caught up on my review replies and then started going through my PMs. I noticed a few annoying trends.

People keep asking me to review their stories even though they have never once reviewed anything of mine. That's fine and all, no one is obligated to review anything I write but it certainly doesn't make me rush over like I would for one of my regular reviewers. The really annoying thing though -- most aren't even stories within the ships that I write for. I don't really want to read about Jake and Nessie or Alice and someone who isn't Jasper. Am I wrong for being kind of annoyed by that? Maybe it's just because I'm so busy so any reading time that I can find is precious. I understand that they want more reviews but I kind of feel like they are just PMing any author with a high review count.

So another thing that I know I'm justified in being annoyed by -- some people (again, not any of my regular reviewers) have been getting annoyed when I don't write their suggestions fast enough. I mean, what the hell? I try to be nice about it but...this is MY story and I write what I want to write at the moment. I welcome the suggestions whole-heartedly but I get so so many, plus I have my own ideas so some just won't get written and some are way too vague to spark my interest. I started having people clarify their suggestions in the last batch. I have a few readers who are brilliant at suggesting things in a way that makes me want to write it immediately. When Yvaughn asked for the baseball chapter, I could just see the moment in my mind. When someone asks for "something during Eclipse," it doesn't really get my mind working.

RBTL has been getting more and more hits and reviews with each chapter which is great but having been in the fanfic world since the days of the Star Wars 'zines, there is some degree of etiquette that should be followed. I write because it's fun for me and the only reason I'd stop writing is if it isn't fun anymore. Luckily, most of my reviewers keep it fun and interesting and challenging and make me forget about the ones that don't.

Anyway, rant over. I got past my big deadline at work, took a day off and slept the day away. This weekend, I started getting caught back up on everything fanfic related. I'm actually excited about RBTL again for the first time in awhile. I have a lot of ideas in the works. I'm definitely in for the next ten...we'll re-evaluate at 40. :)