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Mar. 22nd, 2009 07:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mari4212Dear ff.net readers.
I get it, you like my Susan&Hermione story. I can tell from how many people have favorited it that it's getting pretty popular.
But really would it hurt to, say, type a five-second review as well as clicking that favorte story button? I'm now at over twice the amount of people who have favorited, compared to people who have reviewed the story.
Exasperated,
Mari
I really shouldn't be annoyed that people like my story. I know this. And I know that there is a culture that believes that favoriting a story is a form of review, an equivalent to commenting with an "I liked this." It still tends to make me go bzuh? Because I personally think that it's a courtesy to the writer to tell them why I liked it, or at least that there was some part of their story that worked well for me.
Aside from that, I have a new favorite store to go looking for presents for my father. It has lots of rocks of good quality, for very reasonable prices. So I got him a belated birthday present, and there is a Father's Day present burning a hole in my pocket. Any bets on how fast it will be before I end up giving it to him early? I'm fairly sure I won't make it all the way until June unless Mom sits on me.
I get it, you like my Susan&Hermione story. I can tell from how many people have favorited it that it's getting pretty popular.
But really would it hurt to, say, type a five-second review as well as clicking that favorte story button? I'm now at over twice the amount of people who have favorited, compared to people who have reviewed the story.
Exasperated,
Mari
I really shouldn't be annoyed that people like my story. I know this. And I know that there is a culture that believes that favoriting a story is a form of review, an equivalent to commenting with an "I liked this." It still tends to make me go bzuh? Because I personally think that it's a courtesy to the writer to tell them why I liked it, or at least that there was some part of their story that worked well for me.
Aside from that, I have a new favorite store to go looking for presents for my father. It has lots of rocks of good quality, for very reasonable prices. So I got him a belated birthday present, and there is a Father's Day present burning a hole in my pocket. Any bets on how fast it will be before I end up giving it to him early? I'm fairly sure I won't make it all the way until June unless Mom sits on me.
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Date: 2009-03-23 01:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-23 01:30 am (UTC)Because getting told "this is good" doesn't give me a place to improve on. If all I know is that people like what I'm doing so far, I'm not pushed to work harder, and I can't, from within the subjective analysis of being the writer of the work, analyze where the weak points are, where my strengths are. I end up platauing until I either absorbed from my other reading, or from the few critiques I do get, new information and better writing styles/techniques.
BTW, do I need to mention again how glad I was that you did such an in-depth beta job? That was amazing and so incredibly helpful.