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hmpfI'm looking at logfiles again (while I'm eating, but I'll go back to work in a moment), and apparently my most 'popular' story, in terms of hits, is "Flaking Paint"/"Rock Bottom" (both are working titles), with 39 hits a month at rank 8 of all pages of my website. Incidentally that is also a story I got the last (make that only) feedback for (again, except for when posting bits of it on forums) in early 2000 or so (started writing in 1999). It is, in terms of accomplishment, very much one of my worse efforts - hey, it was my first attempt at fanfic! It is also not at the top of the list on my writing page, so it's unlikely people will click it first, I think. Oh, and it's unfinished.
So, why the many hits, I wonder? There are two possible explanations, I think. First the pessimistic one: for unfathomable reasons it *is* the first story that most people read, and they decide they don't like my writing based on that, and leave my page, hence the few hits for other stories.
The optimistic interpretation? Those 39 hits, or a few of them, are people who read the story (what there is of it), liked it, and keep checking back, occasionally, to see if it's been updated. Hmm.
Second most popular story according to hits is Together, with 23 hits a month. Followed by Sometimes We Believe (16 hits), Names (13), Endure and Rise and Shine (both 11), This is your Time (9) - damn, people are still reading that? I should take it down. *shudder* - Epilogue and Zusammen (8), and A River in Egypt (7).
Those are the stats for February, but they're more or less consistent, with some variation in the lower ranks, with those for January.
And, speaking of ego surfing... I just checked fanfiction.net for the first time in months, and the girl who thought Rise and Shine was a comedy put me on her author alert list. Wellllllll..... Actually, she may even be sort of confirmed in her misperception by the next part of that series (if I'm ever going to finish it), because the next one *is* meant to be a bit more comical. Which is why I seem to be unable to write it. Can't do comedy. (Unless, apparently, accidentally.)
So, why the many hits, I wonder? There are two possible explanations, I think. First the pessimistic one: for unfathomable reasons it *is* the first story that most people read, and they decide they don't like my writing based on that, and leave my page, hence the few hits for other stories.
The optimistic interpretation? Those 39 hits, or a few of them, are people who read the story (what there is of it), liked it, and keep checking back, occasionally, to see if it's been updated. Hmm.
Second most popular story according to hits is Together, with 23 hits a month. Followed by Sometimes We Believe (16 hits), Names (13), Endure and Rise and Shine (both 11), This is your Time (9) - damn, people are still reading that? I should take it down. *shudder* - Epilogue and Zusammen (8), and A River in Egypt (7).
Those are the stats for February, but they're more or less consistent, with some variation in the lower ranks, with those for January.
And, speaking of ego surfing... I just checked fanfiction.net for the first time in months, and the girl who thought Rise and Shine was a comedy put me on her author alert list. Wellllllll..... Actually, she may even be sort of confirmed in her misperception by the next part of that series (if I'm ever going to finish it), because the next one *is* meant to be a bit more comical. Which is why I seem to be unable to write it. Can't do comedy. (Unless, apparently, accidentally.)
