Hi! :) I'd forgotten that I'd talked about the comm at Writercon. I'm not officially associated with the comm, but it's a fantastic resource and I find so many new stories this way, especially dealing with characters and pairings that I don't normally read.
I do get the whole feeling-self-conscious thing because I feel that way too; I find it harder to write recs for a big comm like this one than to rec things in my own journal. Which was something I wanted to mention in my tips post ... that there's nothing wrong with just writing a few lines of "squee! I loved this story! and here's why!" -- a rec doesn't have to be a detailed review of the story. (Though I suck at taking my own advice.)
You actually only need four recs in a month -- that's the minimum that they ask you to rec if you sign up, and while you *can* certainly post more, I usually don't post more than 4-5 ... if I have more than that, I just carry them over to the next month, figuring it's better to spread things out than to inundate people with recs one month and then have nothing the next month.
When I remember, I save links to stories I want to rec as I go through my regular fanfic reading ... which is one of the tips I wanted to mention. It's so much easier to rec when you have a big stack of stories already saved aside to rec rather than having to hunt through your bookmarks and saved stuff, trying to find fics that haven't already been recced!
I guess I should go write that post rather than trying to summarize it here. *g*
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I do get the whole feeling-self-conscious thing because I feel that way too; I find it harder to write recs for a big comm like this one than to rec things in my own journal. Which was something I wanted to mention in my tips post ... that there's nothing wrong with just writing a few lines of "squee! I loved this story! and here's why!" -- a rec doesn't have to be a detailed review of the story. (Though I suck at taking my own advice.)
You actually only need four recs in a month -- that's the minimum that they ask you to rec if you sign up, and while you *can* certainly post more, I usually don't post more than 4-5 ... if I have more than that, I just carry them over to the next month, figuring it's better to spread things out than to inundate people with recs one month and then have nothing the next month.
When I remember, I save links to stories I want to rec as I go through my regular fanfic reading ... which is one of the tips I wanted to mention. It's so much easier to rec when you have a big stack of stories already saved aside to rec rather than having to hunt through your bookmarks and saved stuff, trying to find fics that haven't already been recced!
I guess I should go write that post rather than trying to summarize it here. *g*