About half of my fic is there, actually, but all of it will be in future. I can't count AO3 comments even if I want to, because I have had around 200 hits and NO comments. And they must be enjoying it, because 1/3 of the hits are on part 3 of a fic.
Yes, I sort off feel the same - if I have hits on the last part of a series, I feel pleased. Even if the first part had, say, 10 hits and the last has 3.
I give thoughtful comments (no matter what the origin) more weight than *squee*s)
That is a good point... I am still thrilled with a squee or a yay or a 'thanks, this was good' or whatever. I do not seem to write the sort of fic that gets, as I said on soundingsea's post on feedback, the sort of replies that are almost longer than the fic itself. :)
I have about half my fic there, I went on an importing spree and then ran out of steam :D
I decided a long time ago that I was going to write whatever I liked, no matter whether it got any comments or not.
BUT EVEN SO at first when I had stats turned on for Yuletide last year and saw how many views vs. comments I had, I was shocked (and hurt too, inexplicably, because I KNOW how these things work). So I turned 'em off and have been happier ever since.
I like any kind of comment. Let me amend, I LOVE any kind of comment. But I can't let it stop me writing my weird, sometimes unpopular, little fics :D
I'm with you on that one - I sweat the whole idea of writing 'for' someone, if it takes me out of my comfy place. I've done it more than a few times - and I've managed to be pleased more or less with the results - but I get a lot of pleasure writing something that makes me happy, even if no one says anything about it in reply.
*smishes you* I understand how it can be hurtful to see 25 hits and no comments. I think the nature of AO3 is that you can happily skip from tab to tab and fic to fandom with no comments because there are so many people there... if that makes any sense at all.
I keep meaning to add more of my fic, but get overwhelmed by how much of it there is and because I want to fix the formatting on some of them and so on. Much like my attempt to go through my journal and tag everything I want to, I don't know that this will ever be accomplished. :)
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I can't count AO3 comments even if I want to, because I have had around 200 hits and NO comments. And they must be enjoying it, because 1/3 of the hits are on part 3 of a fic.
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I give thoughtful comments (no matter what the origin) more weight than *squee*s)
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That is a good point... I am still thrilled with a squee or a yay or a 'thanks, this was good' or whatever. I do not seem to write the sort of fic that gets, as I said on soundingsea's post on feedback, the sort of replies that are almost longer than the fic itself. :)
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I decided a long time ago that I was going to write whatever I liked, no matter whether it got any comments or not.
BUT EVEN SO at first when I had stats turned on for Yuletide last year and saw how many views vs. comments I had, I was shocked (and hurt too, inexplicably, because I KNOW how these things work). So I turned 'em off and have been happier ever since.
I like any kind of comment. Let me amend, I LOVE any kind of comment. But I can't let it stop me writing my weird, sometimes unpopular, little fics :D
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*smishes you* I understand how it can be hurtful to see 25 hits and no comments. I think the nature of AO3 is that you can happily skip from tab to tab and fic to fandom with no comments because there are so many people there... if that makes any sense at all.
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