wherein Liz briefly contemplates ff.net

[edenfalling]

I think ff.net's alert function is broken. You know how I know this? Because over the past two days, I've seen new chapters from two authors I have on author alert, but I got no email notification. Also, I posted chapter 7 of "Lemonade" over there a few hours ago, but I didn't get the auto-copy of the notification email.

I am peeved.

It's funny. I have various reasons (some petty, some less so) for disliking ff.net, but it serves a very necessary function in bringing so many different fandoms together and letting people explore and post and review and jump around with relative ease. We need that site to exist. The positives outweigh the negatives.

...

Anyway, I'm heading home to fry up some chicken and onions and read some more of Storm Front by Jim Butcher. (A few months back, I read a Spider-Man book he wrote and liked his writing enough -- engaging narrative voice, good grasp of characterization, deft touch with plot -- that I decided to look into his original stories. So far, Harry Dresden does not disappoint. *grin*)

Comments

[yuenoclow.livejournal.com]

Frankly, the author/story alert is one of the few things I like about ff.net. ...I really hope that there aren't any bugs in that. I got waaaay too many fics I'm watching to manually keep track of them all. x.x

[askerian]

I've only received a handful of notifications in the last few days, when I know I should have gotten more, so... yeah. ~__~ *grumbles*

[deralte.livejournal.com]

I've been getting my chapter notifications, but only some of my review notifications. Ff.net periodically breaks down this way in my experience. It really is a pain.

[valles-uf.livejournal.com]

Yes... Mr. Butcher is good for that. I've gotten to number 4 in the series, and have noted not even the slightest bit of slippage in the quality. More than that, there is a distict, noticable continuity between books, and, and, and the best part?

It's planned. The climax, hell, the entire plot of book three was set up, foreshadowed, in the first half of book one.

This man is not just making it up as he goes along. He knows exactly what he's doing.

Leave Sookie Stackhouse be, forget Anita Blake, and set aside Lackey's SERRAted Edge stuff, this is the modern fantasy series to watch.

Ja, -n
(definitely a convert)

[arkeus.livejournal.com]

Ahh... but the alerts are back. Sadly, they put one alert every ten minutes, so it's pretty slow coming :/

Apart from that, isn't jim butcher the author of fury of calderon something? i can't remember...i like mercedes lackey, it is a fun read, and very relaxing- the story is written well enough to be engaging, and not that cringe worthy. of course, i haven't read the Serratege books- they don't sell it where i live.

it's kind of sad that most of what i read since two years ago is fanfiction :/ I used to read two or three books a week, but i just don't have that energy anymore... Must be the meds :/

Sorry for rambling

[drich.livejournal.com]

Dresden Files is great stuff.

Jim Butcher also has an LJ that he use for sporadic posting of writing advice:

http://jimbutcher.livejournal.com/