Post by Rune Lai on Jul 18, 2014 21:00:38 GMT -5
Random thought...
I finished my Phantasy Star II fanfic Restoration a long time ago, I think right before it turned ten years old because I told myself I didn't want an unfinished fanfic that old.
But because I had taken so long, the original host site, the Phantasy Star Pages, went into stasis.
So I was thinking, is it worth setting up a Fanfiction.net account to host an old fic whose fanbase has (probably) long moved on? I mean... Phantasy Star II was a game that came out in 1989/1990 depending on region. It's having its 25th anniversary.
It's bothered me a little bit that no one else has ever read the completed story, though it was in fact completed. But then, it's been a long time so maybe no one would read it anyway and it's a lot of work to get seventy-two chapters (or whatever it turned out to be) online.
On the other hand, I'm not writing anything new (at least not under this name--I'm certainly writing under my real one) and this is the only fic that's bothering me enough I may want to re-post it. It's a big story, but once it's up that account would be going inactive.
Does FF.net allow readers to contact authors outside of reviews? Supposing new readers come and like it, I'm human enough to admit I do appreciate the occasional surprise fan mail, and admittedly I'd be doing this because no one else has finished reading it.
I finished my Phantasy Star II fanfic Restoration a long time ago, I think right before it turned ten years old because I told myself I didn't want an unfinished fanfic that old.
But because I had taken so long, the original host site, the Phantasy Star Pages, went into stasis.
So I was thinking, is it worth setting up a Fanfiction.net account to host an old fic whose fanbase has (probably) long moved on? I mean... Phantasy Star II was a game that came out in 1989/1990 depending on region. It's having its 25th anniversary.
It's bothered me a little bit that no one else has ever read the completed story, though it was in fact completed. But then, it's been a long time so maybe no one would read it anyway and it's a lot of work to get seventy-two chapters (or whatever it turned out to be) online.
On the other hand, I'm not writing anything new (at least not under this name--I'm certainly writing under my real one) and this is the only fic that's bothering me enough I may want to re-post it. It's a big story, but once it's up that account would be going inactive.
Does FF.net allow readers to contact authors outside of reviews? Supposing new readers come and like it, I'm human enough to admit I do appreciate the occasional surprise fan mail, and admittedly I'd be doing this because no one else has finished reading it.
