I nearly gave up on posting tonight having spent an hour or so trying to get on site. Still my readers, though perhaps not as numerous as some authors have, are important to me, so I tried one last time...
It appears I now have 150,000 kudos, as I'm not allowed to give them to myself, then they must be given by others. My thanks to all who have clicked on the little button at the end of my story postings. Thank you x 150,000, please continue clicking on them, it's the only way I know readers like my stuff, unless they choose to comment as well.
Hugs to all,
Angharad
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I too, had trouble getting on
I too, had trouble getting on this site tonight, but Ang Bike was well worth it. It is one of my days highlights to read it and tonight it was very worthwhile, especially with Si being his most romantic and charming. You deserve every kudo you do get, I would be very happy if I got that amount of kudos, and to any who think I am complaining I am very happy with the kudos I do get and they sometimes determine the style I write the next story in and I may be writing one soon as soon as some to of the ideas gel in my brain, or the characters tell me to write their story, I have trouble planning out what I am writing, the stories seem to write themselves.
I don't understand why people who read stories
Don't comment at least now and then. It only takes a minute.
That Depends
That depends on what you want to say. It often takes me up to half an hour to get the wording right. Sometimes I just give up and go back to You Tube or the BBC I-player. For every comment I post, I reckon four or five don't make it past the 'preview' stage.
Sometimes I don't have
Sometimes I don't have anything to add beyond "I read it and enjoyed it."
Generally, when I comment, I like it to have more purpose than that. Something to get off my chest, to give a theory, or engage with the author or other commenters.
I agree. I post when I think
I agree. I post when I think I have something to actually talk _about_, not just to talk. "Golly, Gee, Wow!" just doesn't do it more than occasionally.
Single stories get that sort of response, because it's a completed thing - serial stories don't get that as much, because there's much more, shall we say, life to it, than just the normal jump into the plot, introduction, story, climax, denouement, and epilogue. That's part of why Sherlock Holmes stories feel different than your standard murder mystery. They were designed around serial posting, where each one had to be relatively complete, let fit into an overarching story.
Thinking about it - no, that wasn't any sort of suggestion or even innuendo that I want the story to end :)
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
I have contributed
As is only fit, since yours is the one story that guarantees I try to log in on each and every day.
We should be thanking YOU.
With much appreciation.
Julia.
Congrats!
That's all I can say.
Comments
I have about 30K kudos and I appreciate every one of them. Comments, though, help me engage with readers. I have a number of readers who almost always comment. I have one (Ritchie) who always waits for a novel to be finished, and then sends a thank-you message. Those are the ones that really hit home, because it means that I have touched the soul of someone with a name. Bev, Dorothy, Joanne, Susan, Miranda, Kristina, Drea, Theide.... I could keep the list going, but they serves as examples. The rest of you know who you are.
I started writing for myself, as a way of making sense of the car crash of my life, of PTSD, of transition, of loneliness, and as an unexpected result real people started telling me that I had given them something, perhaps encapsulated some experience or other, and I can think of no finer result. My writing is now helping immensely in letting colleagues understand why I am what I am.
We live our own lives in our own ways. To know that some small thing we have done has rung true with another, wherever they are, is beyond price.
It's been...
It's been challenging recently... But, your stories have been among the first things I look for when I do get in.
Hopefully when they resolve the hosting issues things will improve. :-)
Thanks for your perseverance. I don't tend to hit the Kudo" button too often, but I do try to leave notes.
Annette