It’s a nice feeling when people binge your stories!

[Zeronix]

Just had someone discover my stories and then go on an absolute tear through my collection! First time it’s happened for me, and it feels good I might finally be finding my audience.

 

[StillStunned]

Congratulations! There's no feeling quite like it when you realise that someone's thinking to themselves, "Wow, I want to read everything they've written!"

 

[Rob_Royale]

It is an excellent feeling. Congrats.

 

[BobbyBrandt]

Favorites are rewarding.

The readers have taken your story and placed on their virtual bookshelf, not just perused it and moved on. Having your stories taking up an entire shelf says something. Congratulations.

 

[Bassytian]

Yeah, it is, congrats! This happens to me every once in a while, it's always very nice!

 

[ElectricBlue]

Favorites are rewarding.

The readers have taken your story and placed on their virtual bookshelf, not just perused it and moved on. Having your stories taking up an entire shelf says something. Congratulations.

I'm less enthusiastic. When I get blocks of stories favorited, they're generally all within the same hour. They're bookmarks, it doesn't mean they've been read. When I see comments from the same person, that means they're being read.

 

[crookedletter]

Man, Vayudeva's really making a day of it.

 

[BobbyBrandt]

I'm less enthusiastic. When I get blocks of stories favorited, they're generally all within the same hour. They're bookmarks, it doesn't mean they've been read. When I see comments from the same person, that means they're being read.

We view it differently.

I consider the "Reading List" as those bookmarked by readers. Feedback that I have received indicates, at least where my stories are concerned, readers mark a story as a favorite specifically intending to read it again, and many of them claim to have done so.

 

[SinclairGroupLLP]

I have one right now that is making their way through the first series. Every hour or so I get a new "favorite" for the next chapter. Very good feeling!

 

[MillieDynamite]

Yeah, I've had readers' heart from three to ten stories in a row.

 

[TheLobster]

Whenever this happens to me, it’s usually just someone adding the stories to his “Read” list rather than actual favorite. It makes sense to do this, since it lets you easily see stories you’ve already read, but of course it says nothing about your attitude towards them.

 

[ElectricBlue]

We consider the "Reading List" as those bookmarked by readers. Feedback that I have received indicates, at least where my stories are concerned, readers mark a story as a favorite specifically intending to read it again, and many of them claim to have done so.

Favoriting half of my story list within the same hour - that's bookmarking, not reading.

 

[SimonDoom]

Based on the time gap between them being favorites, I'd say the reader actually read them and enjoyed them. That's a nice feeling.

 

[SimonDoom]

Favoriting half of my story list within the same hour - that's bookmarking, not reading.

I make this distinction as well, so when I get multiple favorites for my stories from one author I always pay attention to whether they were all favorited at the same time, or whether it appears they gave enough time between each one that it seems likely they actually read them. More often than not, they're all at the same time, so I figure they're using the favorites function as bookmarks for later reading. In the OP's case, it looks like the latter, so I think he has cause for being pleased.

 

[PapaRomantic]

I have a binge reader right now, but most of their comments are on what they don't like about my writing, which is fine, they are entitled to their opinion. But what I don't get is why they keep on reading if they are suffering so much with my writing?

Oh well...good to have all readers, I guess.

 

[BobbyBrandt]

Favoriting half of my story list within the same hour - that's bookmarking, not reading.

If someone favored my entire story list, I would agree. However if someone favored stories obviously associated with each other at the same time after reading one of them, I would view it differently.

I have at least two distinct group of followers, and they have widely divergent tastes. Yet, they still tend to favor my stories collectively in their genres.

 

[filthytrancendence]

But what I don't get is why they keep on reading if they are suffering so much with my writing?

I think there's a temptation sometimes for readers to view authors as the conduit for a story and not the creator. And I'm not sure that's entirely wrong.

But in that frame, it's easier to see why somebody might be compelled by your imagination and also feel compelled to nitpick your technical skill.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

After they read mine, they Purge.