Shameless Plug Time

[auronlu]

Okay, while I'm banging away on the Epic Battle chapter of LHaD (coming along nicely) -- stats time!
Chapters: 40 (40 is sitting on my HD being polished)
Words: ~90,000 (ack!)
Started: Dec. 14, 2007
One-shot that started it all: "Alternate Universe" posted on pyre_flies in Apr 2006. 1030 words.

FF.Net Stats: 11,300 hits; after initial die-off ~150 read to the end; 116 comments.
LJ Stats: 425 comments since Dec '07, of which about a third are my replies.

MUCHO thanks to all my reviewers/critics! Your feedback has made it 500% the story it would've been. Especial gratitude to my diehard commenters: trekqueen, cumuluscastle, muggy_mountain, owlmoose, melchar, jlsigman, vandevere

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Now. Shameless Plug and/or PSA!

The Genesis Awards keeps postponing the final awards for Final Fantasy X, and I'm guessing it's because not enough fics have been nominated in some categories. Partly for selfish reasons (LHaD was nominated, but can't compete if there's no contest), and partly because I absolutely want more of the fabulous Final Fantasy writers out there to get the credit they deserve, I am encouraging everybody to nominate one Final Fantasy X Fanfiction story that they think deserves some notice!

This is the first year the Genesis Awards has recognized any fandom besides FFVII, so I am eager to see FFX fic well-represented. (Apologies for sounding like a broken record.)

Comments

[samuraiter.livejournal.com]

*applause*

I am curious: Do you intend to throw a party once you hit the big 100,000? :-)

[trekqueen.livejournal.com]

if not at her house, I'll host it - I just crammed 34 people in my house on Saturday for a baby shower. I think I can manage the auronlu fanbase who decides to come! we can also link in via skype the peeps who can't make it. lol

Heh. Thanks.

[auronlu.livejournal.com]

Assuming that Livejournal/FF.net still exist fifty years from now, sure! :D

Oh, wait, you mean wordcount, not hits.

Nah. I can't celebrate LHAD until it's done. I've never finished anything this long, except for the godsawful fantasy novel I wrote in high school. Thank goodness the net didn't exist in those days.