A Note To My Fellow Writers--and my wonderful reviewers [personal entry]
I've recently had the opportunity to have a variation of the same conversation with three different people, all of whom contribute in some way to either the House fandom, or another fandom. One of these people hates House, but we're friends anyway ;). And hey--there's no accounting for tastes, right?
Anyway, our discussions have centered around ( Read more... )
Actually I stopped posting on LJ because of the fact that my stories got less attention here than over at the Pit. I wish LJ had a way to count the hits then i would know if it was worth it to post here. I find LJ to be more insular, you are likely to find people who search out and read and authors work or not. IMO they don't seem as open to lesser known authors here.
does it ever upset you that they favorite it, and yet don't review?
because that bothers me...
Sometimes, but if theya re favotiting it then at least they like it enough to want to read it more or again. I personally would take ten really well thought out pieces of feedback than 100 this is great ones. For some reason I don't seem to get that sort of feedback from my readers. I do it get from my betas and that is great, but usually it is more along the lines of this is good, more plase. So for me, since I don't really get conscrutive feedback I take the alerts/favorited as a better mark of how people are receiving my story.
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