You have 18,000+ hits for Collected Works. You have 7,000+ for a four part fic. It's not that much of an anomaly.
Collected Works...like I said, I can't explain. Memento Mori has been up for a year and a half, and received a lot of attention when it was first posted.
If you want to hear something weird (and maybe this will help explain why I feel the way I do about the hits/reviews/awards ratio), its this: the fic I feel is most balanced between the three is Fragments. It has way fewer views than Fleeting, but the review ratio is better and thus, subjectively, it feels like its earned at least some of the awards that have been heaped upon it. The response I've had for Fragments is the one I'd hoped to have for Fleeting, so its weird for me that it didn't happen...but it did, at the same time. LOL, if that makes any sense.
Have you asked them, or do you just assume that they are not reading because they don't comment?
Some of them are no longer speaking to me. Some of them aren't commenting anymore. This combined list represents a large cross-section of people who used to follow me at Dokuga and added alerts at FF.net for whatever reason (don't ask me to explain why they do that, because I can't).
I wish you luck! I hate seeing my friends make themselves miserable, especially when it's something that doesn't much matter in the long run.
LOL thanks :) Yeah, it is stupid, but we all get bogged down in the dumbest things sometimes. I acknowledge that about 60% of my fandom crises generally have less to do with fandom than with other things, and I've certainly had enough of that to keep my busy of late.
You know I'll support you on that issue, too. It really is okay to take as much time as you need to get an update done. If you take longer but it makes the fic better in the end, then it's more than worth the wait.
I didn't mean to imply she's my only support system, just that she's the one who basically hears the most of it. And, sometimes, you just need someone else to assure you what you want to do is okay, you know?
But you are getting feedback
For already established stories. Which is a shame, since I've mostly been working on 'independent' things lately. It's a little disappointing when others don't seem to enjoy your fic as much as you do, but hey - at least the last couple of things I've posted up I've really enjoyed. That's the point, no?
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Collected Works...like I said, I can't explain. Memento Mori has been up for a year and a half, and received a lot of attention when it was first posted.
If you want to hear something weird (and maybe this will help explain why I feel the way I do about the hits/reviews/awards ratio), its this: the fic I feel is most balanced between the three is Fragments. It has way fewer views than Fleeting, but the review ratio is better and thus, subjectively, it feels like its earned at least some of the awards that have been heaped upon it. The response I've had for Fragments is the one I'd hoped to have for Fleeting, so its weird for me that it didn't happen...but it did, at the same time. LOL, if that makes any sense.
Have you asked them, or do you just assume that they are not reading because they don't comment?
Some of them are no longer speaking to me. Some of them aren't commenting anymore. This combined list represents a large cross-section of people who used to follow me at Dokuga and added alerts at FF.net for whatever reason (don't ask me to explain why they do that, because I can't).
I wish you luck! I hate seeing my friends make themselves miserable, especially when it's something that doesn't much matter in the long run.
LOL thanks :) Yeah, it is stupid, but we all get bogged down in the dumbest things sometimes. I acknowledge that about 60% of my fandom crises generally have less to do with fandom than with other things, and I've certainly had enough of that to keep my busy of late.
You know I'll support you on that issue, too. It really is okay to take as much time as you need to get an update done. If you take longer but it makes the fic better in the end, then it's more than worth the wait.
I didn't mean to imply she's my only support system, just that she's the one who basically hears the most of it. And, sometimes, you just need someone else to assure you what you want to do is okay, you know?
But you are getting feedback
For already established stories. Which is a shame, since I've mostly been working on 'independent' things lately. It's a little disappointing when others don't seem to enjoy your fic as much as you do, but hey - at least the last couple of things I've posted up I've really enjoyed. That's the point, no?