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, 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
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Date: 2005-08-02 11:53 am (UTC)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,
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