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[wiseheart]

"The Shoemaker's Daughter" is one of my favourite stories. Granted, it's not exactly the kind of story that would attract the average Tolkienfic reader: it deals with a bunch of OCs, it has an ungodly abundance of trivia and long, loving descriptions, and it's updated about once in a year or so. Still, I've hoped that at least the handful of people who seemed to like my other Halabor stories would be interested.

Well, not so much luck. The two recently posted chapters not only didn't get a single review (together), despite having been posted to four (!) different places, on SoA, they didn't even get a single hit! Yeah, hit counters can be depressing sometimes. On FF.Net and TFF at least they had a handful of hits.

I know, we aren't living in the times when people would be willing to crack open an epic novel - or start reading a fic of the same proportions. I know the reasons, and I'm sympathetic, really. It's still depressing, though.

Well, at least it hasn't attracted any malevolent "critics" yet, either. I guess I ought to count my blessings, small as they might be.

Comments

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

It can be so disheartening when you work for hours on a good story and then nobody reads it or if they do they don't say what they think.
I know I'm fortunate for hits and reviews but it still hurts if they drop,so I feel for you.

[phyloxena.livejournal.com]

I actually like "Shoemaker's daughter". The thing is, exactly, that it is almost original work. It doesn't work as a quick fix for a fanfic junkie, you see... I know I'll read the current (or next) installment when my brain defries itself.