is it okay to ask for reviews?
I've been kind of wondering about this today, and I was curious over what you guys thought on the matter.
So as some of you know, I've been writing exclusively for another fandom for quite some time now. The current multi-chapter that I'm working on is twenty-three chapters long and has been fairly successful, for the most part. It's getting pretty ( Read more... )
So as some of you know, I've been writing exclusively for another fandom for quite some time now. The current multi-chapter that I'm working on is twenty-three chapters long and has been fairly successful, for the most part. It's getting pretty ( Read more... )
This. My longest stories have only barely broken 100 reviews, so I've learned not to care so much about the number and more about the effort and thought that people are putting into the reviews I do get. When there are subscriber alerts and hit counts to tell me how much it's getting read, what difference does it really make to get fifteen additional reviews per chapter that are all pretty much the same non-specific and brief feedback like "I love this, keep up the good work"?
Not that I don't appreciate those. It's just that I know that sometimes as a reader who's already left reviews on several previous chapters, I just don't have anything in particular to say after reading the latest chapter of something except for more of the same positive opinion of the fic in general. After a certain point in writing a long story I have to tell myself not to expect so much constant positive reinforcement of feedback except when I come to major scenes or changes in the story, which I do hope for more of a vocal reaction to.
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