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Magus says(like Simon says but no where near as fun ) hits , reviews, rates...screw it all! Reviews are nice, concrit even nice, good rates is a nice warm fuzzy and a high hit count is fun to see, but none of it should be why we write, we should be writing to silence that voice inside our head so we don't go on killing sprees Actually he says, and I agree, we should be writing to please ourselves, not like we're getting a check for this. Ski the end all the stats are nice but shouldn't be why we write (damn Magus charged me a buck for that -someone has a big head! )

I have to admit when I first started posting, I was obsessed with the hits, rates and of course back then, lack of reviews. The longer I'm here posting the less I care. I still love getting reviews, of course who doesn't, but I'm less ecstatic about it now than in the beginning. I look at it this way: I wrote the piece already so I've gotten my enjoyment from the project so if posting it can entertain just one other person, I've gone above and beyond what I set out to do. If that one person takes the time to tell me they liked it, well that's just icing on the cake. I'd rather spend my time writing than obsessing over my stats because in the end they really don't mean anything. This isn't a popularity contest, I think the original poster mentioned something about this site being fair about the updates page not being ruled by popularity, it doesn't hurt me if someone has written something that people love and it gets a million hits. I can encourage the other writers here because their success in no way affects my work. It actually makes me happy to see the few people on here that I've come to call friends, succeed in their writing endeavors. And that's my $0.25 worth. (My opinion is way more expensive than DP's because I'm a diva ) CL

From the author's perspective, we're putting in an enormous number of hours and effort to take an idea, to shape it into a story, complete, and polish it. The author is wondering "So, is this worth it?" "Are others reading and enjoying it?" As very few leave reviews; the ratings and hit counters are the main way to gauge the level of interest. In the corporate world, they use hit counters too (sales, number of viewers, etc). That's my $0.02 worth. - DP

Thanks and I hope to post sunday or monday, sorry it's slow but I've been preoccupied with school and a few other things

The hit counter is meaningless? oh woe is me, I guess I'll go eat worms

It's GREAT to see you're back and posting Magusfang!!!! Congrats to all of you on the new little one on the way!!! And thanks DA for keeping us posted! Was really getting worried when he disappeared again. Can't wait to read the next chapters from both of you!! LOL

He's getting frisky so I think he's doing fine