This might be a rather strange question. But as an Author how do you feel when a story that you didn't necessarily spend a lot of time on is better received than a story you spent hours on?

You might want to interpret the question in a different way if that doesn't fit you. Ive heard some Authors complain about different things, so lets hear it, what are your own feelings about how your story is received, we read to much about how the readers feel about our stories.

I don't worry about it. There are so many variables that affect the ratings/comments. I'm just glad my friends read them and leave it at that.

I had one story I wasn't too sure about. It ended up scoring really well and got some great comments. Another story I worked for hours and hours on turned out to be my least popular one. I never know what's going to happen when I post a story, but I find that's half the fun of it.

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If I am being honest about it, there is only two people who I really care about their opinions. Mine and one other person. If they say it is bloody brilliant, then I know I hit the nail on the head. If I think it is good enough to give to them to read, then I know I am impressed enough with it. And trust me, they have no problems giving it back to me saying, "Woman, it is pure shite!"

If anyone else says what I write is decent, good, captivating or any other words along these lines is just gravy.

The only negative comments I really receive are along the lines of, "Holy mother of pogo sticks riding women with fancy toys! That is a freaking book! You expect me to read THAT!"

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Living life and enjoying life are two different things... just need to figure out how to do both at the same time to live it right!

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Concur with ali and rocco. If you want high ratings post incest stories, the one I did nearly doubled the rating count of any other story I've ever written. It is not my favorite. Write what you like and worry less about the critics :-)

I write my stories for myself and for others to read. I don't know how to separate the two. There would be no point in posting them if I didn't have some expectation people would read them. I would like people to read them.

Since I like my stories, they are part of me, I don't experience disappointment if they are not well received. There are too many variables. Like someone said some of the genres are much more popular than others. So if you want the number write for those genres.

I like my story Lilli, in a little over two months it has been viewed 368 times. Those are poetry numbers. But I like Lilli and I like her story. So if 369 people read it or 5 million, Lilli will mean the same to me. Of course if 5 million people read it I would have one more thing to be happy about.

I wrote a humor story in the Quickie Sex category today, I was cracking up as I wrote it. I have read it 10 times and find it just as funny. If no one reads it I will still think it is funny and like it. In less than a dozen hours though, it has been read over 1000 times.

I think how I react to things is dependent on may variables. In this case how I feel about myself and what I do matters more.