Re: Various

Date: 2005-08-02 11:53 am (UTC)
Hey, if you'd like to join our phenom, just say so. :D Also feel free to pass on any comments; Palace gets even less feedback than a regular story, by a couple of orders of magnitude. [rueful smile] I'm Johnny, Liam and Michael (Praed), with occasional appearances by Alan Rickman and Judith Tarr, plus a cast of about 75 NPCs. [duck] New writers are always welcome, though, so if you'd like to give it a try we'd be happy to have you.

LOL! about the spam thing. :P I was never quite that bad -- I started out in the online writing thing in a service sort of like AOL (but lots better of course ;) ) where you posted a story and got feedback right there, or in e-mail if you were writing something smutty and folks were too shy to comment in public. But I started out knowing that writers love comments. When I came to LJ I read a lot of back-posts, in the journals of writers who became my favorites, and some of the coms, and at first I didn't post comments on really old stories, like a year or more, figuring the writer would just be kind of annoyed or something.... Actually I don't know what I was thinking. :P Maybe I was just shy or something, but I finally rented myself a clue and started commenting on whatever struck me as commentable.

It's funny, though -- I've always just assumed that anyone who posts a story in public welcomes comments. Heck, I've always just assumed that anyone who posts anything in public welcomes comments from anyone who might read it. I mean, if you don't want random strangers wandering by and maybe commenting, then why is it public, right? Well, [livejournal.com profile] isiscolo did a survey and 31 people (18.3%) said that they "get weirded out when someone not on my flist comments in my journal." [blinkblink] I'll grant you it's less than twenty percent, but still, the fact that it's that high just weirded me out. I guess it's like people getting angry when someone friends their journal without begging permission -- I always thought that one was strange too.

And yeah, I've heard the stats on how many people actually speak up about something. One in ten, or one in a hundred, whichever it is. The thing is, I can look at my two comments and tell myself that twenty or two hundred people actually read it and liked it, but that doesn't make my gut feel any better. [wry smile]

Thanks for the link -- I'll go check out Arena, since it's not actually about gladiators. :D

Angie
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