Views are pretty good for Crazy for Daisies. I can't complain. 22,870, six comments, and good feedback so far, and it's only been up since last Tuesday. Of course, the score is LOW - at least, low enough to lose it's H with the slightest breeze. We'll see how it does after the contest is over. Scores usually jump up after a contest. Strange how that works, eh?
Unless you win, and then they magically drop. Drastically.
That'll work
Unless you win, and then they magically drop. Drastically.
Typically, they recover over time, however. Not usually to the high at the time of winning the contest, but back into the same general range. All the 1 bombs drop off in sweeps, but the 4s and such from people seeing it prominantly linked on the front page of the site still drop the score some.
The exposure is well worth losing a few points on a story
Loving Wives isn't always that bad. My very first story ever on Lit was actually in the category, and I had yet to even post in the AH before that story went up. But it's got a red H (at least I think it still does), so I guess I didn't follow the formula for pissing off the readers.
Haven't had an LW story since, though. Nothing I've been inspired to write would fit there.
Btw, I checked. Unfortunately, you lost the red H for your one and only LW story. There's no pleasing that crowd and I'm not going to even try. Writing is hard work, and the work that comes after that is even harder, and I don't want my stories to be attacked as if I'd written a revision of Satan's Bible.{Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm a coward - and proud of it!
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Not really! More than half my loving wives stories do.You two made me go back an check on some of my H's in loving wifes. I still have around 45 with red H's in that category. Probably because I have a zillion stories.
I write what comes into my crazy old mind. I was in the middle of writing a loving wife/interacial story when I thought of a romantic Earth Day story. I stopped my crazy story and wrote the Earth Day story. Now I have to wait for my mind to decide wher my other story is going. Probably in the unfinished pile.
Candlelight, love your little smilies.
Best to you both. Sorry to listen in on your conversation.
DG
It's an open and public thread, so no need to apologize - and you know it.
I maintain that any author who writes in the LW category has to be incredibly brave. When I grow up, I wanna be just like you, just like them.
But I'm not there yet.
The exposure is well worth losing a few points on a story
The best way to do it is to just pull up your panties real tight and dive in head first. It only hurts for a second or two.
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It only hurts for a second or two.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm a score-whore.
