Rob_Royale
with cheese
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I haven't posted a story for feedback since my first, but this one puzzled me.
Dreams of Him is my latest. It's in the mature category and it's about a wife who has been dreaming about her daughter's fiancé.
When it was posted a few days ago, I looked at my responses the next morning to find that after 40 votes, I had a 3.3 star rating.
Now I'm not bragging when I say that's unusual. Even my Loving Wives story got a better initial reaction. After a few days, it has climbed up to 100 votes and a 4.32 rating and that's fine, but it is still struggling. The rating drops and recovers.
I'm not concerned with the rating. It's a gauge of how the readers enjoyed the story. At this point, it seems most people did. Mission accomplished. But those first 40 or so votes at 3.3 are a real anomaly to me. I have seven glowing comments and no negative ones.
The numbers suggest that there is something about the story that people either don't like or are on the fence about. If you have a few minutes to kill would you mind checking out the story and helping me figure out where I dropped the ball on this one? It is 8.3k words.
Thanks in advance, and I'll be happy to talk about any criticism you might have. I'm a big boy, I can take it.
Dreams of Him is my latest. It's in the mature category and it's about a wife who has been dreaming about her daughter's fiancé.
When it was posted a few days ago, I looked at my responses the next morning to find that after 40 votes, I had a 3.3 star rating.
Now I'm not bragging when I say that's unusual. Even my Loving Wives story got a better initial reaction. After a few days, it has climbed up to 100 votes and a 4.32 rating and that's fine, but it is still struggling. The rating drops and recovers.
I'm not concerned with the rating. It's a gauge of how the readers enjoyed the story. At this point, it seems most people did. Mission accomplished. But those first 40 or so votes at 3.3 are a real anomaly to me. I have seven glowing comments and no negative ones.
The numbers suggest that there is something about the story that people either don't like or are on the fence about. If you have a few minutes to kill would you mind checking out the story and helping me figure out where I dropped the ball on this one? It is 8.3k words.
Thanks in advance, and I'll be happy to talk about any criticism you might have. I'm a big boy, I can take it.