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[wiseheart]

2 vintage variations and a purple one with silk roses:



On the other side of creativity, my stories aren't doing so grand on AO3. I'm used to have stories with more chapters than reviews, but I thing I'm heading towards a new low: stories with more chapters than hits. I think I'll disable the hit counter before the frustration gets to me too much.

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[aouregan]

It is always a bad idea to turn around and look at the amount of hits or reviews one of your stories gets on a site such as AO3. FFN isn't a grand idea either to look at, to be completely honest.

The one thing that I advise is to not look at the hits option on AO3, period. Even if you do disable it, I do believe you can see the amount of people (or times a person has checked out your story) when you sign into your account.

It's disheartening, but I say continue writing. Have you tried fictionpress for your original work? I don't ever suggest going to wattpad. It's a great site for some people, but it's terrible with the drama. I remember publishing one of my original historical novels. After being accused of creating multiple fake accounts and having the multiple accounts of the same individual troll my work, I decided to stop with wattpad.

However, I don't ever advise giving up writing just because your work isn't getting 'enough attention'.

Good luck with your writing endeavours!

P.S: I hope you don't mind a complete stranger coming to your journal like this. I saw that you like Merlin and other things that I find interesting... I swear I don't make it a habit to stalk random journals.

*swears on it...*

[wiseheart]

No worries, I'm always glad to meet new people.

And yes, I am on fictionpress. It's only so that may main original novel is some 1000+ pages long - in Hungarian, at that - and was written more than 30 years ago on an old-fashioned, mechanical typewriter. The imagine of typing up the whole thing again gives me the shivers and not in a good way. Perhaps of I live long enough to see retirement I'll bring up the strength and the nerves for it.

But yeah, not getting enough attention *is* disheartening. Although attention perhaps isn't the right word it. I'd like people to *enjoy* my stuff, and it saddens me that they apparently don't.