{"id":146156,"date":"2015-07-10T23:25:53","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T23:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/07\/10\/author-appreciation-week\/"},"modified":"2015-07-10T23:25:53","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T23:25:53","slug":"author-appreciation-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/07\/10\/author-appreciation-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Appreciation Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

biotictrash<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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After seeing how successful Love Your Artist week was, and all the love that went around there, I thought it might be nice to keep some of that going, and do something cool, specifically for fic authors.<\/p>\n

Fan fiction authors give so much to fandoms, whether they post fics once a day or once every couple of months. It takes a lot of effort and guts to not only write pieces, but to share them with the internet, however, they do often go under appreciated.<\/p>\n

Fic writers typically don\u2019t ask for commissions like other artists do and put the same amount of effort into their work for completely free, their writing gets far less notes than a piece of fan art would, and they don\u2019t get the same exposure or even personal feedback. Of course, artists of all types are extremely talented and fantastic, but there is definitely an imbalance.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For the week of Monday July 13th – Sunday July 19th, we should try to take part in a week that will give authors a chance to hear from their readers and fans!<\/p>\n

And here\u2019s a few ways to do that:<\/p>\n