Realizing just how poorly I write. · 11:08pm Jun 12th, 2016
Today I went through my assorted stats.
52 posted stories
6847 story views
178 total likes
50 even dislikes
120 comments, of which only four were in any way asking for more of a character or series.
I do not know how to find out how many of my stories have been marked as favorites.
Not many, I guess.
That works out to about 2.6% of my readers liked any of my stories enough to click on the LIKE button.
The MOST LIKES FOR ANY OF MY STORIES IS FOR ERIS, INC. ONLY 10, balanced by 9 DISLIKES, of which 8 were posted BEFORE THERE WERE ANY STORY VIEWS!
The above tells the whole story.
I simply have nothing to offer that any of you like well enough to click a button on a page.
Sorry that I have been wasting your time.
If anyone has anything to add, I am on tumblr. Ask the Old Writer. Feel free to send me any asks or messages.
Yes.
As wonderfully original and fancifully fun as your work is... That's it.
Original and fantastical writing is fun for the author, but a test for the audience: a test of imagination, of envisioning new templates in the mind's eye.
That means that your books are on everyone's to-read list, to be read when they feel they have the energy and focus to read your very interesting books without running out of steam part-way...
Those who do run out of steam, will decide your writing is "not bad, but not for me", or will decide "this story is too original for me; thumbs down so i don't forget", or will decide "these characterizations and descriptions aren't what i expected; i can't get invested enough to think of a decent comment so i'll down vote and move on."
I hoped you were writing for yourself, but i can see how highly-visible stats can cause mal-focus and depression without any conscious instigation.
Be well. I hope you let your heart heal from this ordeal.