Hope of the written word! <positive post>

[Milo_Grigsby]

I joined Literotica 30 days ago after getting very limited response to my story postings on DeviantArt. What I am truly astounded by, and very pleased with, is the amount of exposure and response my stories are getting here!

On average one of my visual artworks on that other site gets about 1K views, even though I have 715 postings and over 650 followers. And that's after being a posting member for almost 1 year. By comparison, after just 30 days one of my stories here gets two to three times the views of one of my pictures, and in one astounding case 20X.

I find this amazing, especially given the greater time commitment it takes to read a story versus just looking at a picture. This gives me tremendous hope for the written word!

Thank you all for welcoming me to this community in such a marvelous manner.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Welcome again!

(Great images, BTW.)

 

[TxRad]

Welcome to the madhouse.

There is also an art forum one floor down run by a guy named Throbbs but don't hold that against him. He's pretty good at scratching out them dirty drawings.

 

[SimonDoom]

Definitely check out the Visual Art forum. Welcome.

 

[Milo_Grigsby]

You know I would love to contribute to the Visual Arts Forum because I think some of my stuff is pretty good but in scanning though it there seems to be a definite, in some cases bordering on extreme, dislike for and resistance to any form of digital art. I want to be respectful of that.

 

[TxRad]

PM throbbs and have a talk with him. I think you will find digital art is acceptable there.

 

[Djmac1031]

Welcome. Glad you're enjoying the positive response.

Just keep in mind it's not always love and roses here. You'll get your share of haters, too.

Don't let them discourage you when it happens.

 

[pink_silk_glove]

I find this amazing, especially given the greater time commitment it takes to read a story versus just looking at a picture. This gives me tremendous hope for the written word!

Not trying to rain on your parade but the vast majority of your hits are just that - click, skim, meh, close. Not to memtion bots and spiders.

 

[Milo_Grigsby]

Not trying to rain on your parade but the vast majority of your hits are just that - click, skim, meh, close. Not to memtion bots and spiders.

Ouch.

 

[TxRad]

The bots and spiders are far, far less than they were years back.

 

[SimonDoom]

Ouch.

My goodness. Talk about a Debbie Downer post. What Pink said may or may not be true (how do we really know?) but if so it's true everywhere. What you said at the beginning is correct: this Site offers far more exposure for your work than other places, with all the good and the bad that it implies. Enjoy the good. Ignore the not so good.

 

[SimonDoom]

The bots and spiders are far, far less than they were years back.

I like your version of Nietzche's quote. There are some other good ones:

Joker from The Dark Knight: "Whatever doesn't kill you, makes you stranger."

Conan O'Brien in a commencement speech: "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. What he failed to stress is that it ALMOST kills you."

 

[pink_silk_glove]

My goodness. Talk about a Debbie Downer post. What Pink said may or may not be true (how do we really know?) but if so it's true everywhere. What you said at the beginning is correct: this Site offers far more exposure for your work than other places, with all the good and the bad that it implies. Enjoy the good. Ignore the not so good.

Sure, we don't know for sure. So you're trying to tell me that when there are 1000 views, 20 votes 3 comments and 2 faves that there's actually a chance that the other 980 people genuinely hit this, read every word and soaked it all in? I would guess that if 25% of all views were full reads you'd be doing exremely well, even if you had a long-earned following here.

 

[SimonDoom]

Sure, we don't know for sure. So you're trying to tell me that when there are 1000 views, 20 votes 3 comments and 2 faves that there's actually a chance that the other 980 people genuinely hit this, read every word and soaked it all in? I would guess that if 25% of all views were full reads you'd be doing exremely well, even if you had a long-earned following here.

No, I'm not saying that. My guess is that on average fewer than 25% of those who "view" a story actually read it all the way through. But that's not a "bummer." It's probably true everywhere. It is still the case that this Site enjoys a higher readership than others. It's all relative. But this place is relatively better.

 

[TxRad]

Years ago, stories would have as many as three or four hundred views before they ever posted. All those bots and spiders have gone away. So yes, things are much better than they used to be. Perfect? No way to tell.