Holy sh!t. Talk about touching a touchy subject!
I have never gotten that kind of response from either a blog post or a chapter... ever! Fifty-three different emails about this little off-the-cuff blog post. I felt I should have just kept to myself immediately after posting but I figured "well, I never really ever got much of a response before... I doubt anyone will really respond."
Boy, was I wrong! See, the responses I normally get for a new chapter are three or maybe up to five emails saying they liked the latest chapter or thought I should have posted faster or when is the next one posting. Those are the VAST majority of emails. And I love them. They are just enough of an ego boost to keep me going.
But the other night, I won't bore y'all with details, I needed a bit more of an ego boost and found the normally empty amount of new emails just a bit disconcerting. Counter that with a score of Mayhem in a Pill sort of stagnating. Mind you, I feel like that level is exactly where it needs to be since I find myself thinking the same thing if I hadn't been writing it, I'd probably be giving it the score of between 8 or 9 myself.
My ego is nowhere near high enough to believe my story deserves a ten. I mean my name is Shinerdrinker and not Refusenik nor Cold Creek nor is it, Al Steiner.
So basically the main idea I got from those who wrote to answer my story is they believe the main factor holding my story at its very respectable 8.25 is the lack of posting schedule and that posting schedule not being at least weekly.
I totally understand this. I generally agree with this. My ego is confident enough to say if I was posting chapters at least every week, then my story deserves to reach that rare echelon of more than nine. That's my feeling anyway. Most of the people felt this way and told me so in those 53 emails.
A few people also blamed the dual timeline story setting as too complicated. Some said to do away with it. Some said to turn the timelines into separate stories and some told me to stop writing altogether because "I suck." But I'm choosing to disregard that guy since he actually misspelled suck and actually called me an, I quote, "talentless hack."
So, as an ending, a promise for the future. I'll work on speeding up the chapters but I'm not going to set myself to a set schedule since I write this for fun during my far too few spare times I can write. Besides... what about all that MILF porn, it ain't gonna download itself.
Tee hee.