This post makes me happy because it confirms that I'm not the only person who does this.
I don't collect my feedback. In my most neurotic moments I do go back and reread stories and then pore over the comments.
I LOVE it when I get "hee!" or "yay!' or keyboard smashing. I love getting "this made me teary" or "this made me laugh". I love the feedback.
But I don't write for the feedback anymore. And I think that's why I'm growing to be less neurotic about it all. In the beginning, when I was more about the reaction, I was also more about the late, late nights trying to figure out how to get the reaction. Now I'm about the late, late nights trying to craft the story the way I want it to go.
The reaction is awesome because it confirms or denies what I thought of the story. And gives me a nice ego boost.
(Re: Starving on the Jump Down - "very bitter" was mine, wasn't it? :D)
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Date: 2007-05-17 01:49 am (UTC)I don't collect my feedback. In my most neurotic moments I do go back and reread stories and then pore over the comments.
I LOVE it when I get "hee!" or "yay!' or keyboard smashing. I love getting "this made me teary" or "this made me laugh". I love the feedback.
But I don't write for the feedback anymore. And I think that's why I'm growing to be less neurotic about it all. In the beginning, when I was more about the reaction, I was also more about the late, late nights trying to figure out how to get the reaction. Now I'm about the late, late nights trying to craft the story the way I want it to go.
The reaction is awesome because it confirms or denies what I thought of the story. And gives me a nice ego boost.
(Re: Starving on the Jump Down - "very bitter" was mine, wasn't it? :D)