Holy frelling dren!

[hmpf]

I just checked my website stats. I'll be honest: I wanted to see if the rec I got at the crack_van recently had resulted in any more recs, and since reccers rarely (I'm tempted to say 'never', as none of mine has ever told me, but there may be the occasional reccer - me, for instance *g* - who sends the authors a mail when they rec something) tell you they've recced your stuff, checking the website visitor stats is pretty much the only way to find out...

Usually I have visitor numbers ranging from 40 hits on a bad day to 200 on a *very* good day.

On Thursday the 2nd of June, the day I got recced, I got 1400 hits.

1400.

One thousand four hundred hits. In one single day.

That's the great part.

Now for the depressing part: from those 1400 hits resulted one, I repeat, *one* bit of feedback. (Not counting feedback from friends, 'cause, you know, that doesn't really count.)

I should probably clarify that that extremely high number of hits does *not* mean 1400 people read my fic. The fic in question is split into 20 pages, and I can follow pretty well how many people actually read all of it by checking how many people read the last page: 75 people endured all of 'Endure'. *g* But still, that's 75 people who read it, and only one new person who gave feedback.

Maybe the other 70 or so didn't like it. But then, why did they keep reading?

Ah well. I'm happy it got recced and happy for the feedback I got. But sometimes, I can't help wondering. :-)

Comments

Re: Quick reply (on the run) ;-)

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

>Please don't skewer me with a sonic screwdriver.

I'm not even sure that's physically possible. ;-)

>And realised that I had to bugger up the comments section to say something, anything because this is just perfect. Your attraction/fascination/obsession is just fabulous to read about and I've been there. I know what this is like, I've cried when tapes got mangled or moments of a show didn't tape. Don't think I went hungry but I have been there ;-)

Thanks. Actually that's the piece of fannish writing I get the most feedback for - even after so many years (it was written in 1998 and put online in 1999, I think). I think I really struck a nerve with that one.

>and similar types attract much as in real life.

I hope I'm not attracted by similar types in Real Life... All the fictional guys I've been attracted to have been mentally unstable, aliens, immortals, mass murderers... etc.

Then again, if I really am only attracted to those kinds of men, that *would* explain why I'm still single at nearly 29... everyone 'real' and well-balanced just is too boring for me...

Arrgh, I'm so frelled up. I seriously need to learn how to fancy normal people.

>Read "Endure" well read about 1/2 which f-ing broke me. Thank you very much, you write poetic, descriptive, sparse prose. It's haunting and painful and turns survival into a nightmare. Thank you very much. *sobs heart-brokenly*

Heh. Why do I always get feedback that ends with people crying? *sadistic grin* And I think that's the first time my prose has been called sparse. But, thanks. I hope you can bring yourself to read the second half sometime - there *is* some progression there, it doesn't just go on and on like it started.

>I just wanted to say that I love the fact feedback seems to motivate you much like deadlines motivate other writers.

Oh, deadlines motivate me, too, but I've been too busy to participate in the last few lyric wheel challenges. Also, I generally find I'm able to deliver better work without a deadline, even though it may take years to finish a story.

But as for feedback motivating me - doesn't it motivate everyone? I don't mean that in a 'I write for feedback' way - but isn't it natural to get a burst of enthusiasm if someone tells you they like what you're doing? I would have thought that was pretty much human nature...

Re: Quick reply (on the run) ;-)

[boji.livejournal.com]

I seriously need to learn how to fancy normal people.

Oh I know that one. Haven't solved it either

I hope I'm not attracted by similar types in Real Life... All the fictional guys I've been attracted to have been mentally unstable, aliens, immortals, mass murderers... etc.

Please... don't you mean, sarcastic, highly-intelligent, cynical, (covering a warm heart that's been broken once too often?) slightly misanthropic survivors? Not to mention being elegant, sexy...

Re: Quick reply (on the run) ;-)

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

>Please... don't you mean, sarcastic, highly-intelligent, cynical, (covering a warm heart that's been broken once too often?) slightly misanthropic survivors? Not to mention being elegant, sexy...

Yeah, that too... The problem is that I find their more unsavoury/impossible traits even more attractive than their more 'mundane' ones...

Re: Quick reply (on the run) ;-)

[boji.livejournal.com]

Fangs & Katana-space? :-P