Zelinko
Ordinary Magician
- Location
- Forest of Magic
Likes don't matter. Numbers don't matter. Ratings don't matter. The only that does is you and the things you want to write about.
He said, expecting people to start rating his comment.
I want feedback to improve and find holes I miss either subconsciously or falls into the realm of "looks right to me" but isn't.
It's hard to experiment, get feedback, learn, grow, and evolve as a writer when stepping out of the meta results in such a lack of attention or feedback or anything whatsoever.
It's actually quite demoralizing.
I have to constantly weigh up whether I can afford to try a thing I'm excited to experiment with when the potential loss of feedback/readers looms overhead like a vulture. Or, even worse, what happens if I do try it and it actually does turn out to be a bad bet? Those readers are lost and the chance of them checking up on the thread again to find out I've decided 'yeah, nah, I think I'll retcon that after all' is near nill.
Yea when I finally put up version 1 of my story up after months of trying to get feedback all I got was drive by ratings even though I was asking for criticism and comments. Lack of feedback good or bad results in the problem for me as silence often makes me wonder if no one read it and why, especially if it wasn't read due to massive flaws that no one is pointing out to me.
I had to ask but beg for feedback which lead to the revised version that I lager put up.
And on asking friends my feedback usually was pretty much what you'd have is we didn't have the reaction buttons, usually empty responses of "It's good" or the like, no real feedback.
Or worse they actually bother to respond with useful things ages after I ask to the point some of my best feedback came after version 1 was up after for weeks skiing for feedback and that was weeks after it was up.
Asking the cat with a degree really only helped with stoke grammar issues that Word didn't snap up.