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Do you ever feel like just packing it all in?
Sakabelle:
I feel like that sometimes too. My best friend and I used to write fics together all the time, and now we hardly talk to each other anymore. So sometimes that really makes me unmotivated. I've noticed readers disappear too which makes me wonder if they lost interest in my stories because they aren't good, or they aren't written well enough, so then I get really paranoid. Eventually I get out of the slump... but yeah, it sucks..
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: julilly on January 17, 2008, 07:50:20 AM ---I must be a freak because I never want to check my reviews. I have to make an honest to god effort to go and reply to them to make people feel like I read them when I don't really want to. I've had a whole story that only had two or three reviews out of 21 chapters but it didn't really bug me... like I said.. a freak
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lol I like to respond as a way of thanking them for taking the time to read and review. :)
It's just strange to have people who regularly read your stuff and then regularly review it not say anything. :(
julilly:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on January 17, 2008, 08:10:30 PM ---lol I like to respond as a way of thanking them for taking the time to read and review. :)
It's just strange to have people who regularly read your stuff and then regularly review it not say anything. :(
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I want to thank them for reviewing but at the same time I don't want to know what it says. Sure it could be glorious and praising but at the same time they could be saying it was crap, and I just don't wanna know lol
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: julilly on January 17, 2008, 08:12:26 PM ---I want to thank them for reviewing but at the same time I don't want to know what it says. Sure it could be glorious and praising but at the same time they could be saying it was crap, and I just don't wanna know lol
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Well you should know by now that you're a good enough author that no one will be calling your work "crap." :P
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: nicksgal on January 17, 2008, 08:10:30 PM ---lol I like to respond as a way of thanking them for taking the time to read and review. :)
It's just strange to have people who regularly read your stuff and then regularly review it not say anything. :(
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Honestly, Dee, it's probably not you or your story. It's probably them. I have readers disappear on me all the time and then email me months later apologizing cause they haven't sent feedback in so long. It's usually because of work or school or moving or something like that - real life getting in the way. They end up getting caught up and sending feedback again though. It's always nice to know they're still around after all.
I'm not sure if this is the case with you or not, but if it's been six months since you last updated (I know you said you had writer's block for six months anyway), who knows what your readers have been up to in that time. They might not even know Pbox has been updated again.
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