Demons I get…
Originally published at blog.scribblesinink.com. You can comment here or there.
… people are crazy.
Or at the very least, unpredictable. Especially fanfic readers. Some stats:
Ten days ago I posted Look Beyond the Road We’re Driving, a one-chaptered story to mooncross_fic and to ff.net. It garnered 6 reviews at LJ (most before it was mentioned in the spnnewsletter, I might add) and 5 at ff.net (out of 180 hits).
Yesterday, I posted the first chapter of The Day The World Went Away (hmm, my titles are growing longer along with the stories, methinks…), also both to LJ and ff.net. Within 24 hours it garnered 0 reviews at LJ (well, one comment from the beta, but that doesn’t really count
) and 13 (yes, thirteen!) reviews at ff.net. Out of only 259 hits.
What is this? Is it easier to comment to a story that’s not yet finished? Safer? More satisfying because you can tell the author “please continue” and lo and behold, they (often) do?
Weird… Not that I’m complaining about the attention in any way…
But note that I’m only talking quantity here, not quality…
Because I’ve no idea what I’m supposed to make of
Um this story looks kinda odd yet I am kinda intrigued.