I think one of the things that interested me most was that the writer is, in many ways, the typical reader. Discovered FFNet and never left it until some of her favourite writers moved to AO3 - lurks but hardly ever comments, and so on.
As a writer I am quite happy with comments that say 'I just want to let you know I am reading this and enjoying it' - and so I quite often leave that very comment. No-one has ever replied to say they think it was a waste for me to say so, and couldn't I have said something more intelligent/constructive/insightful, so I continue doing it! But on the odd occasions that I do read at the Pit I am a total lurker there....
As for the age thing - I do wonder quite how the research was done (perhaps sometime I will see if I can find out), it seems to be such a commonly held belief - and yet everyone I know is at least your age, and some of the people I know, writing not only in the Tolkien fandom but others too, are 55-60, or older.
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Date: 05/03/2013 10:04 pm (UTC)I think one of the things that interested me most was that the writer is, in many ways, the typical reader. Discovered FFNet and never left it until some of her favourite writers moved to AO3 - lurks but hardly ever comments, and so on.
As a writer I am quite happy with comments that say 'I just want to let you know I am reading this and enjoying it' - and so I quite often leave that very comment. No-one has ever replied to say they think it was a waste for me to say so, and couldn't I have said something more intelligent/constructive/insightful, so I continue doing it! But on the odd occasions that I do read at the Pit I am a total lurker there....
As for the age thing - I do wonder quite how the research was done (perhaps sometime I will see if I can find out), it seems to be such a commonly held belief - and yet everyone I know is at least your age, and some of the people I know, writing not only in the Tolkien fandom but others too, are 55-60, or older.