That's time for one long, considered reply, and you're it. Congratulations, for what it's worth.
Thanks! I've never turned down a long, considered reply. :)
HASA causes lots of people to worry, angst, bite their fingernails, get into long, bitter online arguments with each other. . . over what? Fanfiction?
True. I still maintain (despite evidence to the contrary) that this is a hobby and should be fun. (Not that I am pegging HASA as the sole culprit in the fanfic drama/angst arena. Actually, I've only had one opportunity to become miffed since belonging over there and have had more bad experiences with other archives that shall remain unnamed.) And I'm not worried about rejection any more than I worry over my weekly postings...actually less, because the people who read AMC are generally writers whose work I greatly respect and criticism from them tends to sting worse than from an anonymous source.
It doesn't have the reputation, certainly. But it also doesn't have either the hubris or the tsuris* that seems to follow HASA wherever it goes.
I'm very much an archive gypsy. I have no undying loyalty to any single group/archive except my own SWG (and we don't have an archive...yet.) I have HASA admins on my flist...and people who can't stand the place. So I've heard a good balance from both sides and still can't say that I'm unequivocable on either one but more standing in a big shade of gray.
I do have a problem with their review system, though. I have had anti-HASA friends complain that the people there are stuck up and only take a certain kind of writing. Many of these friends are fine writers, in my opinion, and if they were rejected, that only underscores (to me) the notion that "quality" is not for any group of people to decide.
If the fact of having a short story up at HASA will make you happy, go for it.
No, it's really not, that's the thing. If it was, I'd already be there! But I do want readers for my work and so am batting around my options...and came to the question of whether I thought it would compromise my principles to send my work there. If it was rejected...well, I'd move on elsewhere. End of story, no pun intended.
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Date: 2006-02-08 11:34 pm (UTC)Thanks! I've never turned down a long, considered reply. :)
HASA causes lots of people to worry, angst, bite their fingernails, get into long, bitter online arguments with each other. . . over what? Fanfiction?
True. I still maintain (despite evidence to the contrary) that this is a hobby and should be fun. (Not that I am pegging HASA as the sole culprit in the fanfic drama/angst arena. Actually, I've only had one opportunity to become miffed since belonging over there and have had more bad experiences with other archives that shall remain unnamed.) And I'm not worried about rejection any more than I worry over my weekly postings...actually less, because the people who read AMC are generally writers whose work I greatly respect and criticism from them tends to sting worse than from an anonymous source.
It doesn't have the reputation, certainly. But it also doesn't have either the hubris or the tsuris* that seems to follow HASA wherever it goes.
I'm very much an archive gypsy. I have no undying loyalty to any single group/archive except my own SWG (and we don't have an archive...yet.) I have HASA admins on my flist...and people who can't stand the place. So I've heard a good balance from both sides and still can't say that I'm unequivocable on either one but more standing in a big shade of gray.
I do have a problem with their review system, though. I have had anti-HASA friends complain that the people there are stuck up and only take a certain kind of writing. Many of these friends are fine writers, in my opinion, and if they were rejected, that only underscores (to me) the notion that "quality" is not for any group of people to decide.
If the fact of having a short story up at HASA will make you happy, go for it.
No, it's really not, that's the thing. If it was, I'd already be there! But I do want readers for my work and so am batting around my options...and came to the question of whether I thought it would compromise my principles to send my work there. If it was rejected...well, I'd move on elsewhere. End of story, no pun intended.