Ahh yes, every writers favourite bugbear- Scoring. So, 'The night is dark' seemed to have been strangely popular, and I have absolutely no-idea why given the direction it was released in. Work is slowly progressing on additional chapters, but in the meantime I decided to release some of the backstory's of some characters as separate stories. Partly to keep content flowing and partly because I'm not 100% sure if releasing it all in 'one' story makes it easier to read, what with chopping and changing characters and all that.
Anyway, back on topic. I was expecting the average of scores to be the same, after all, same writer and all that, but apparently not. Catherine seems to have pushed a lot of buttons for a lot of readers and the scoring is quite impressive as I have managed to get multiple votes in all categories except '2' which currently has none. Why no-one likes '2' is a bit peculiar. '4' seems popular though.
So for all those that voted '1' thanks for taking the time to vote, and yes, I do 'call it a story', thanks, LOL.
As dubiously helpful as a scoring system of 1 to 10 is, it doesn't really answer why a story is good or bad. Which IS helpful. So if you like a character or hate something, (characters, sentence structure, prose, whatever) please feel free to comment as such. I do read and try to take on-board the more technical comments, but I've not always been very successful.
I've been loitering on this site since late 2002 (1,933Kb of stories on here and climbing!) and I have noticed a distinct reduction in reader feedback over the last few years. Which given the ability for readers to comment on the stories themselves now, I find rather surprising. So comments of how to make stories 'more enjoyable' are always going to be greatly appreciated. Even simple comments like 'more/less sex' is helpful, maybe you want more character detail, or more guns, or more Furbee action, whatever, let me know.
I might start a new quirk, where those that comment interesting informative replies (good or bad), become characters in forthcoming works. We shall see.
Oh, for anyone that cares/is interested current story stats are as follows;
SM- 801 downloads-15 votes-6.40 score
Cat- 1446 downloads-52 votes- 5.89 score (Yeah, Cat really hit peoples buttons…LOL)
TNID- 1936 downloads-49 votes-7.39 score
So far a total of 6 comments- one of which was me replying. Not a lot of feedback for 4183 reads, that's what, one reply for every 836 readers? Probably just as well I don't do this for money… LOL
Well, I wasn't sure how well received my story would be, I certainly didn't expect it to get the love its getting. Which is nice. And four followers to boot! You have no idea how warm and tingly that makes me feel inside.
Dearglil hasn't hung about, and work is already underway on part two. Who knows what mischievous shenanigans she will get up to?
Did you read the story, and have favourite bits, or bits you didn't like? Then drop me a note, telling me of the bits you did/didn't like. I'm always looking to improve.
Or maybe there is something you want Dearglil to do? Again, drop me a note and we will see what happens. If it is suitably…devilish… I might just include it, and your name, in the story….
Lilith.