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[aidenfire]

I review a lot. Basically, one can be safe assuming that if I read something and liked it, (something on LJ, or FA, or some other place where reviewing is easy), I reviewed it. And, as most of the things I read are on recs or from great authors (here's looking at you, flist! <3<3), I like most of them. However, I don't write a lot, or spectacularly, so I'm not sure how writers respond to people like me--people I've termed serial reviewers. After a certain point, do reviews from the same person start to lose your interest? If a person has reviewed your work five times? or ten? Do you think that the person is simply reviewing to review, or does each individual review make you happy? Also, if you had a long, chaptered, novel-length, would reviews on each chapter irritate you, or would they make you think the reader really enjoyed the fic? What if you were friends with the reader? Would that make you value their reviews more or less?

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Comments

[aidenfire]

Oh my god! I loved your fic! I have two Harry-writings that I really love, and you got one of them spot-on: the confused, slightly naive, scared-shitless-and-trying-to-hide-it, utterly adorbable, and for all of that, still passionate as hell Harry (The other one is almost his antithesis--the angry, stubborn, knows-what-he-wants-and-GETS-it-goddammit Harry). I loved your first paragraph! I haven't read any of your stuff yet, because I've got more fic to catch up than I know what to do with (I just finished my finals, so I hadn't been online much), so honestly I had no idea what sort of author you were. I clicked on the link, read the first line or two, and smiled and thought 'This is going to be good!' and read them again. The first conversation with Ron was great! It made me laugh, beacuse I could totally see Harry and Ron having that conversation. And then we met your Draco and I went all melty. God, he was hot. So sexy, and suave, and mmmmmm. And then! Wall!sex! Does fic GET better than this? Great, great job, and I'm off to read the sequel. *g*

Ahh. That explains more than it doesn't about skyehawke. I could never quite fathom why it went down all the time, with as many users as it has, but that makes sense--the very amount of users is its problem. Ah, well, it's up now! Heh.

[silentauror.livejournal.com]

EEEEEEE! I'm somewhat beside myself here, you know! I honestly wasn't expecting that you actually would read my fic, let alone its sequels! :) I sent you a longish response to all three of your reviews from skyehawke - apologies in advance for the formatting. In an ironic twist of fate, their auto-review system seems to like inserting slashes into the responses. In place of apostrophes, perhaps? Oh, well. I'm all for inserting slash, myself! :)

*hugs*