steverogersnotebook:

jadegreenworks:

helly-watermelonsmellinfellon:

highfunctioningsociopath23:

withtaetae:

realgotmarkson:

goodluckdetective:

No seriously guys, comment on peoples fic.

Writers as desperate for comments. Desperate. 

I’m in a writing group with around 40 people and one of the common reasons people don’t post their work is because “no one ever comments on it, so no one is reading it” which blows because their work is amazing and instead it’s sitting in storage.

Comments lead to posting more fic. Trust me. 

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Ok but where is the lie

This is very accurate.

See, here is the problem.

You look at your fic, and it gets a good number of Favs/Kudos. The Hits/Read bar is rising in number. But you barely have any comments on your work, so you don’t know anyone’s opinion on it. And the number of Hits/Reads rises, while the Favs/Kudos begin to stagnate. And then stop altogether.

And it comes across to the writer, that all of these readers, are clicking out of the story. That they must have found something they didn’t like and decided to stop reading.

On FF.net, you actually have a page that tells you how many reads you’ve gotten for each chapter of a story and it’s disheartening to see how the first chapter will have like 54,000 reads, and then the second has 41,903 reads, and the thirds had 32,582 reads, and the numbers lower with each chapter that goes by.

And looks as if people have lost interest in your story, somewhere in between.

So with this mentality, they lose their interest in that story because obviously it isn’t getting any attention. Often times, that story never gets finished.

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