Mal, Soooooo friekin glad you’re back!!! Thank you for your hard work on this series.
I can’t imagine how frustrating it can be for you. I think, however, you can look at your view count and see the TRUE value of your story- you crush all the other celeb stories on the site. Like they’re not even in your ballpark, no offense to those authors. Of course, some of that is the volume of your work, which is a feat in and of itself. But a lot is just people wanting to keep coming back to read something that they actually care about.
I feel there’s a basic taboo in “participating” in celeb stories via liking or commenting. At the end of the day, people feel ashamed or even bad for the characters in the story. So they don’t feel comfortable interacting with the author. They can hide their shame, but they can’t hide their clicks! So again, you should just put a lot of stock into the insanely high 240K+ views that your story has gotten over time. No matter how you see it, that’s a lot of clicks and a lot of reads!!!
Another thing to consider is that you do an amazing job using this forum to talk to us. If you didn’t, people would ONLY check the story for updates, so the number would be even higher.
I think my point is that we all definitely understand your frustrations and you’ve totally spoiled us with the continued amazing content you write. Please keep up the great work. I appreciate the time and effort you pour into this story and hope that you can muster the strength to finish this story and whatever other projects your passion takes you to. Thanks again!