I'm baffled

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

I just went and read The Intruder, and, speaking for myself alone, I would hesitate to say anything even mildly critical to someone who comes off as sweet as you do.

Thanks

And I always think maybe that is my problem, I'm too fucking sweet, so I write romantic drivel and even if it's shitty romantic drivel no one will tell me because they think , well she's so sweet I don't want to sound mean. LOL!!!!!

My profile picture is pretty much me, well my Sim me. (My secret obsession is I am a complete Sims junkie!) Anyway she's sweet, braids in her hair, but if you look close she has jizz all over her face, so she's not completely sweet. That is so me, I come across as so sweet but I have secrets!
And for anyone else who might play Sims, it's a mod I have, regular EA Sims games you can not walk around with cum on your body.

And dammit come on, criticize me! I might be initially put off, but I'll get over it and it could even make me a better writer.

 

[sr71plt]

Churched, now back to writing dirty stories.

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

Churched, now back to writing dirty stories.

hehehe
Perfect!

 

[Handley_Page]

Writing a 'constructive' comment is not too easy, as I don't think I know enough about writing.
All I can do is say that I liked it or whatever, and thank the author for his/her work.

 

[sr71plt]

hehehe
Perfect!

Except that I meant to put that on the coffee thread.

 

[CoffeeWithMonkeys]

Except that I meant to put that on the coffee thread.

Shhhh

If you hadn't told us, we wouldn't have known that.

 

[sr71plt]

Shhhh

If you hadn't told us, we wouldn't have known that.

Well, I could see where it might be a bit baffling.

 

[Diezi]

Why don't I get reader comments? The trend toward no comments at all seems to be growing.

My most recent story posted this morning (in I/T) and I've had a good number of views--12,000 or something so far today. To go with that I've had 60 votes and a grand total of three (count them, three) reader comments. One of those wasn't even pertinent to the story.

So that's a grand one vote for every 200 views and almost nothing for comments. This was the end of a two-part story. About one out of nine or 10 of the people who viewed this story followed the link to part one. In the absence of anything else I took that as feedback. Anything in a vacuum, right?

I actually came to Lit to get feedback on my writing. This is really annoying.

If you want feedback, I suggest joining Scribophile. The authors on that site help each other with their stories.

 

[Smokey125]

Piece(s) of friendly advice

If you're still getting views, votes and faves, consider yourself fortunate. Comments are far from the be-all end-all. Like many of the writers here have mentioned, I have gotten few comments on the whole in ratio to all the content I've put on the site. Many of them are Anonymi, which anyone could have seen coming. Some of the stories performed well, with good scores, feedback and comments all around.

But even though I've done nothing dramatically different in the last few months, my results have steadily dwindled since 2017 began. Until today, my most recent story was published. Wanna guess what's happened with it so far? Go on, guess.

Nothing. Zero. Up for seventeen hours, not one fave. Not one comment, not one feedback, and I haven't checked the score or views yet, but I'm sure the latter is unbelievably low as per now usual, and the former is skewed due to the aforementioned Anonymi. Okay, to be fair, someone did favorite it, but I suspect only to bookmark it, because he then un-favorited it just a short while ago.

So, I'm left little choice but to think Lit's gotten sick of me. Anywhere from one to three years ago, I could publish a story and pull in faves (and sometimes comments) left and right, sometimes up to ten or twenty in one day. And the first day usually is the most eventful. But Lovecraft did touch down a little on that too.

Try not to get too discouraged about the lack of comments. Unfortunately, the Lit forum is not the most encouraging bunch, as you may have noticed. But then, the entire site and community's somewhat notorious. Pilot's said zero decent things to me in my visits to the boards, but then, he's logically not an incredibly decent person. And I'm putting that generously. Although he does have occasional useful information.

Lastly, I'd say that you and I are of one mind in this regard. You and I both want feedback, and for years, I've too been wondering what's the point of posting stories if you don't want feedback. Unfortunately, other writers tend to get on you for that kind of mindset. I've been met with the same array of replies. It's annoying, I know. So...I think I'm pretty much done with Lit at this point. It's a personal decision, nothing more; you've gotta do what you've gotta do. And NO, Pilot, I'm NOT fishing for someone to say, "No, don't, keep writing!" It's okay; there are other avenues I'm thinking of exploring from here. Cheers, my friend, and proudly follow the path on which your writing journey takes you. —S

 

[NotWise]

But even though I've done nothing dramatically different in the last few months, my results have steadily dwindled since 2017 began. Until today, my most recent story was published. Wanna guess what's happened with it so far? Go on, guess.

I checked and see that your story does have a favorite now, and four votes -- still no comments.

The response I got to the last (and by far longest) chunk of Unlikely Angels got almost no reaction, and my feeling about it was similar to yours. I felt like I was done.

I got over it, but I'm still not very motivated to post more of Unlikely Angels. The most recent chunk started with a score of 3 and for two-and-a-half months and 33 more votes it has struggled upward. Someday it might make it to 4.5.

The variations in the views and responses here are large and sometimes hard to understand.

 

[Smokey125]

Yup...

Soon as I make that post, a (legit) favorite shows up. But then, it was that of an individual who favorites, well, EVERYTHING, so...not that that should take anything from it. Five votes now, and a little over 500 views. I don't wanna use the word "pathetic" or anything, but, eh, if we're bein' honest... :/

 

[DrDelirium]

Soon as I make that post, a (legit) favorite shows up. But then, it was that of an individual who favorites, well, EVERYTHING, so...not that that should take anything from it. Five votes now, and a little over 500 views. I don't wanna use the word "pathetic" or anything, but, eh, if we're bein' honest... :/

Why would we do that? We're authors, dammit!

 

[Smokey125]

Hell of a point.

^^^^^