Two commenters in two days
Jun. 4th, 2025 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
artemisdartIt's funny how things come in waves sometimes. I was so happy with Non Sum Dignus, which I published in mid-March, and it found some readers at the time, but new attention had died down and I thought it had pretty much run its course when it came to finding kudos and other types of interaction.
And then in just a couple of days, two new readers left comments on it for me! I even got into a back-and-forth discussion with one of them -- delightful! (I went and looked them up in my database and found out that they left a kudos on this story way back on April 10 -- meaning they kudosed it then, and *then they came back* to comment now! That's somehow even more meaningful than getting a kudos and comment at once!)
It makes me wonder if the two of them know each other, and one recommended the story to the other... or whether two people independently discovered it and saw fit to leave comments on it so close together.
One nice thing about having over 100 stories published is that at any moment, someone could interact with any one of those, and some small percentage of people like to leave comments -- so I could get comments any time, and often I do. I usually get a few comments a week, and they always brighten my day. :)
I'm quite sleepy at the moment but need to be writing this fic. I think I'm going to close my eyes for 20 minutes and take a power nap so I can try to soldier through and get more of Chapter 3 of Unconventional Courtship out. I only have 26 hours or so until it's "due" -- technically I could stay up past midnight on Thursday and write into the wee hours of the dawn in order to publish it on Friday the 6th, its due date, but I'm rubbish at pretty much anything after midnight.
So. No pressure except the calendar! :eek:
And then in just a couple of days, two new readers left comments on it for me! I even got into a back-and-forth discussion with one of them -- delightful! (I went and looked them up in my database and found out that they left a kudos on this story way back on April 10 -- meaning they kudosed it then, and *then they came back* to comment now! That's somehow even more meaningful than getting a kudos and comment at once!)
It makes me wonder if the two of them know each other, and one recommended the story to the other... or whether two people independently discovered it and saw fit to leave comments on it so close together.
One nice thing about having over 100 stories published is that at any moment, someone could interact with any one of those, and some small percentage of people like to leave comments -- so I could get comments any time, and often I do. I usually get a few comments a week, and they always brighten my day. :)
I'm quite sleepy at the moment but need to be writing this fic. I think I'm going to close my eyes for 20 minutes and take a power nap so I can try to soldier through and get more of Chapter 3 of Unconventional Courtship out. I only have 26 hours or so until it's "due" -- technically I could stay up past midnight on Thursday and write into the wee hours of the dawn in order to publish it on Friday the 6th, its due date, but I'm rubbish at pretty much anything after midnight.
So. No pressure except the calendar! :eek:
