Popularity and variety

[jtav]

When I started writing fanfic, I read several articles about how to market fanfic. One of the more frequent pieces of advice was to write one character/pairing exclusively if you're just starting out. I broke that rule. Sometimes I wonder if it did affect my readership. On the one hand, I think I'd go nuts if I wrote nothing but Luna or H/L, but I worry about disappointing people who friended me or put me on alert on the basis of my MWPP fic. Does it bother you if an author writes a variety of characters or pairings?

Comments

[phil-urich.livejournal.com]

I personally don't mind if an author writes a variety of characters or pairings since I tend to do the same thing. In some ways you could be hindering yourself by just writing the same character because it might limit your audience to people who just read that character. Just my thought though.