Write new stories and your back catalogue will always see movement.
It's fun to play with numbers.
If you're only "writing for yourself", why bother publishing anything?
Because we are social creatures?
Now that's scary. I contemplate solipsism, you illustrate it. Simultaneously.
Call me Elisha Gray.
I guess it’s just me but I figure if I write for myself, I am never disappointed.Because we are social creatures?
Because many of us have written for ages or since we were young and there were few outlets for *this* sort of material and to litmus test whether or not we write authentically on a fundamental human experience?
Yes, there are those who overdo accolade chasing here but the assumption that any interest in the statistics poisons the well of the art is also overdoing it.
For a wide swath of the writing populace here, I assume writing for yourself has to top the list simply b/c all the effort required and motivation to see a project to its end is mostly unsustainable by the promise of adulation alone (especial here where the vote system is archaic and reader interactions limited by subject matter)
Most of us write to engender a feeling in our readers. We discuss the metrics we are limited to b/c they are also can be the tools that help us figure out if we accomplished any of what we set out to do.
My "I write for me" drawer is therapeutic but also a god damn ghost town, population my singular crazy ass.
Yes, this. Most of my stories are exercises in empathy. Can I imagine the experience of a person I am not, doing a thing I have not? Can I give a compelling account of that experience to another person?
It's a healthy attitude and if it's working, don't change a thing.
Water keeps you alive. Too much of it will kill you.
I'd say I never heard of such a big number, but I recently learned there are actually 215 million brazillion people in a certain South American country.
True but they all seem bummed out by their views, their ratings and all that stuff. All I see are people complaining and trying to figure out they can manipulate things to get higher scores. They remind me of people in college who don’t learn anything except scrounging for grades. That’s what it’s all about????
I think of myself more as the guy bummed out to realize he didn't learn the material as well as he thought he had.
View counts vs. date for some of my stand-alone stories:
Mmmm I checked out your profile! No stories you have written?
Some people like to be appreciated. It drives some people to write more. A little clout is nice, even if you aren't writing for it. Most of us write for ourselves in a way. I tell the stories I wanna read, and share with others.
Lit has been around close to 25 years so I think the "few outlets" argument sailed a long time ago. There are authors here who have had lit since they began writing and have always known it.Because we are social creatures?
Because many of us have written for ages or since we were young and there were few outlets for *this* sort of material and to litmus test whether or not we write authentically on a fundamental human experience?
Yes, there are those who overdo accolade chasing here but the assumption that any interest in the statistics poisons the well of the art is also overdoing it.
For a wide swath of the writing populace here, I assume writing for yourself has to top the list simply b/c all the effort required and motivation to see a project to its end is mostly unsustainable by the promise of adulation alone (especial here where the vote system is archaic and reader interactions limited by subject matter)
Most of us write to engender a feeling in our readers. We discuss the metrics we are limited to b/c they are also can be the tools that help us figure out if we accomplished any of what we set out to do.
My "I write for me" drawer is therapeutic but also a god damn ghost town, population my singular crazy ass.
