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Just looking at the reception for "Andromeda Smith". I've been Beavering away and so far, have the beginning of 5 chapters. If the reception does not get warmer, I won't bother with further posting.
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Comments
timing?
I know I haven't looked at it because I'm still behind on reading contest entries. As a long time sci-fan I'll probably read it eventually though there doesn't always seem to be time to read everything before it slips off the front page and out of mind.
Reception
Gwen/Ahabidah,
The first chapter of your story has been viewed by 479 readers as I write. That's not a bad start. Many a good story gets a far more lukewarm reception than that. I cannot explain the lack of comments, but many good writers fare much worse.
Don't take it personally
Based upon discussions that took place around the beginning of the year, the site is a lot quieter than once it was. There may be a variety of reasons for this (we're all ageing out, for one thing...) but the simple upshot is that you're not going to get as many clicks as you did years ago. There are a lot more things competing for eyeball time than there were twenty-five years ago; a decline in readership shouldn't necessarily be interpreted as a dislike for your material.
I've hardly read a thing, lately, because if I did there'd be no time for writing. Apologies, everyone, and happy reading if your own leisure time is more congenial.
Bx
Sugar and Spiiice – TG Fiction by Bryony Marsh
Chapter 2 almost ready.
I hope to post it Saturday or Sunday...
We each write (and publish) for our own reasons.
Sure, Kudos are nice, and comments (almost always) better.
As someone else noted, for us readers, it can be Time. I have something like 5-7 browser -windows- full of tabs to BCTS stories. And one of those windows 'Jammed' - I added a new tab ... and then I could not see the tab. Murphy's Law hit, said tab was playing a video. And the video was so rude as to be looping ... I had to turn off my speakers while trying to find it ...
So.
Time for reading.
Time for kuduing.
And much more time for sensible commenting ...
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Not every story will be, or can be, an "instant hit".
'Poor reception' can be from a lot of things ...
You needed to change your Name here, so you have misplaced your "reputation". Can't see why you needed a name change, ask Admins for help. Or even a joined Name" New Name (aka Old name.)
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Piers Anthony stopped writing stories. Instead he sent the outline to his Publisher, If the publisher liked it, only then did Piers write the full story.
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In my 'other life', I post a lot of stuff to Flaky-Blarg. I think some is Important - like "How to keep the Next Pandemic at bay." Some is as fluffy as some of my stuff here. Some are deliberately provocative (insulting a domineering political party ... )
Typical 'Likes' from my 4,500+ FloodBrain 'friends' runs in single digits - and often that single digit is very round ... Comments? Snort! They run around 1/day to 2-3 per week.
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Keep on writing.
But. Write for yourself. If we like it, as they say, "cool beans."
Heck, even write stories that are, uhm, 'self-therapeutic.'
Write the stories that won't leave you alone until you turn them from brain sparks into computer sparks.
Or a story from 'Way Back When': "Listen up, younglings. I was born when humans had nothing in orbit. Zip. Zilch. Nada. And I gotta tell ya, Sputnik really munged up my education ..."
Keep on writing. Write for your Most Important Reader. You.