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Just wondering: Is my story Portia and the Double Whammy really that bad? Sixty reads, and not one kudo, not even a negative comment. Maybe the kudos aren't working. I guess real life situations are not that popular. Oh well, back to the drawing board.
Portia
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Portia
I kudoed it after the first chapter. Maybe it's the kudo glitch Nick blogged about...
An audacious bit of fun, writing yourself into a Cynthia story. Ryan and Sarah
seem like neat people and I for one am glad to meet them...
I'm gonna write, read some more, write some more, and comment after I finish it, like I do
(I LOVE finding chapters in stories, easy to find my place. TY for that!)
~~~hugs, Veronica
What borders on stupidity?
Canada and Mexico.
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Huh?
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Where's the "real life situations" you mention? :)
I think you need to be a bit more patient, the people who like your stories are likely all doing their daytime thing. It's been like two hours since you posted. Most authors will go a lot longer than this before getting their first comment. As for kudos - I suggest you ignore those completely as a totally random, unquantifiable measure.
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Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until they speak.
I went outside once. The graphics weren' that great.
I Feel a Bit Better Now
I think I had an attack of depression comming on. Maybe I need chocolate, or a hug.
Portia
Portia
Damned right
you need chocolate and a hug. An English hug is still a hug, so consider yourself hugged.
S.
I'm Mostly English
My grandfather was born in St. Ives. There are Barringers and Titus's in my ancestory, too. My name is probably derived from a small blue flower. There's nearly a page of us in the St. Ives - Penzance phone directory. The hug was warmly felt.
Portia
Portia
Well
As a Sennen and Bosigran climber I know that area well. But I aten'tn't readed yer story yet.....
Have patience!
As of now, you're up to two hundred and six reads, seven kudos and one comment. Bear in mind that many readers work full-time, so bearing in mind the story posting time of 5:03pm GMT; most Americans would still be at work (nearly lunchtime on the East coast, mid morning elsewhere) and most Europeans would be leaving work and travelling home.
Wait a day or two and see what happens - posting it on a Friday means that it might get seen by those sufficiently addicted to the stories here to log in during weekend daytime, so may accrue several more reads / votes / comments before Monday.
Oh, and as for me? Loaded up in a new tab, ready to read straight after the serials.
There are 10 kinds of people in the world - those who understand binary and those who don't...
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
Per my usual
I hit, downloaded, and run, to read it at a later date. I imagine many readers do this, especially with all the works that are available. I give kudos after I actually read it. Same for many others, I believe.
Me again...
You story doesn't suck, but...
When Stephen Hawking was setting out to write A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME someone warned him that for every equation he used he would lose half his readers...
I've noticed in TG fiction the same principal applies to stories that require intimate knowledge of other stories. When I rave about Julie O's stories. some people tell me they just don't enjoy having to untangle all these intertwining plotlines and characters. She has gotten rather convoluted with this. Back around 2008 I was planning on have all my stories take place in Star City in the fictitious west coast state of Jefferson, and have a lot more interconnection between them, now I'm glad I didn't. And some of them that do take place in Star City (Veronica on the Cross, I Love Lucidity, Silence of the Night) barely mention this fact, and don't have as much crossover of characters as I'd once planned...
I've read most of the CYNTHIA AND... stories, so at halfway thru I'm digging it---I'm a sucker for wizards and magically transformed girl golfers and talking kitties---but I imagine anyone who hasn't wouldn't be able to make heads or tails of it. Sit down and write one that has your usual well-developed characters & magical highjinx that isn't connected to your many other tales, and watch the comments and kudos pile up. Then, having proven to yourself that YOU DONT SUCK as a writer, go back and write the kind you enjoy writing, knowing that while your readership might not be huge, all eight of us really love your stuff...
My own dearth of readers (compared to more popular authors here) comes, I think, from my dismally sporadic posting schedule. By the time I post another PLAY NICE it will have been a full year since the last one. Most of the people who were raving about the early chapters will have abandoned it by now. It doesn't make me a bad writer or the story a bad one, it's just another way we can sabotage our public reception in a "marketplace" where people have more stories to chose from than they have hours to read in. Somebody remind me of that when I post my own blog lamenting my abject suckiness as an author & my hankering to go eat worms...
~~~hugs again, Veronica
What borders on stupidity?
Canada and Mexico.
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I kudo'd AND commented!
You know I love your stuff! I enjoyed this one, too. I want to see more! Maybe you got hit by the Kudo Jinx?
Wren
I tried to Kudo the story
I tried to Kudo the story but it didn't do what it should. The button was pale already and didn't respond to being pressed. So I suspect it is a glitch. The story was pretty good, I thought.
CaroL
CaroL
Late kudos
It has taken me quite a long time, but I have finally read every single one of the stories leading up to and including that one and have now given kudos to all.
As long as that wizard is alive on the computer I will always read and eventually kudo his stories.
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