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Cash *is* a review, IMO.

If you write original fiction then that tends to get less reviews than fan fiction, but if you’re like me and also write original but non m/m stuff then it gets even less reviews. And god forbid if you include no sex of any kind in it! lol

I can read other peoples stories and get excited, some times even if the story is “bad” but the image they placed in my mind is all thats needed, sometimes i do get myself too in my own story, but thats never the “goal” until editing is done.

Nah, I’ve written, selfpubbed, and submitted original stuff for the money. The writing group I’m on the edges of seems to have some evidence that it takes at least ten releases until you start getting momentum, shorts or novel length. But I’m only about a third there after getting derailed with two big health issues last year. The heat varies considerably depending on the genre out there, and there are a lot of published works and best sellers in my genre that are successful without much sex. I choose where I put it based on the response I want, and cash is very nice in lieu of reviews. My two active fanfics are a hurt/friendship post-disaster and a very slow build and I’m hoping to finish both by July so I can get at least a score original shorts out before the end of the year.

Now, can we influence the Luck? Is it phase of the moon? Giving the most annoying talk show host a finger on the fifth Tuesday of the month? Sacrificing chocolate bunnies? (a little harder this time of year) Marketing is hard, and few writers seem to manage to balance output and marketing in a balance that works for them. Me? I’m hoping to finish a couple projects I’m obsessing on and get back to original stuff. Still looking for an editing method I can live with, with two novels in my trunk.

You know you’re a total dweeb when you keep having to go back to Wikipedia for more information about stars, black holes, and particle physics for your porn stories. Maybe I should write a book: Everything I Know About Astrophysics I Learned From Porn.

I’ve got original, unfinished, stories with a load of warning tags, so, yeah, I kinda feel like my stories are underappreciated given the hit counter and handful of reviews. However, I also recognize that there’s an element of luck here, either your brilliance is found out, or not. Some marketing does help the odds, but in the end, it’s still luck.

I'm on my phone so I'll keep this short so as not to anger the auto correct gods. Definitely the story I loved the most failed to get the reception I expected. It didn't get silence so much as by far the most criticism out of any of my stories, and I've posted some real stinkers that received heaps of nothing but praise. So yeah it was baffling to me that something I thought of as my best work was so negatively received. I've also had ones I was so excited about posting. Thought they were so well written and I was convinced they played perfectly to the audience. Then i posted and... crickets. So that was fun lol. You'd think it would be humbling, but I'm quite good at blaming everyone but me. (Okay, so I didn't really keep it short.)