Another question, O flist...and pictures!

[tabaqui]

Or, rather - links to pictures. Remember when i posted about my books being mostly unpacked and bookshelves up? And i had pictures of said shelves?

Some of you were all 'i can't read the titles!' and i said i'd take pictures that showed the titles. I did! Of a few shelves. But they're *very big*, so i'm only putting the links here, rather than actually putting the images up. So click at your own risk! :)

Shelf one.
Shelf two.
Shelf three.
Shelf four.

And now...and observation. Or, the question. And this is not - let me be clear, *not* - a plea for more comments or a whine about how 'nobody wuvs me!'. It's just something i noticed and thought was interesting.

When i posted the first installment of Aftermath, it ended up with an astonishing 221 comments. Now, take out half of those for my replies, and say another ten for back-and-forth, that's still a *very*, very amazing 100 positive comments. The second and third parts, respectively, earned 133 and 95, or - 60 and say....42. Very, very nice. But why such a drop?

Was it because the second part didn't immediately follow on the first part, and people felt cheated? Was it because even though the header says Sam/Dean, there isn't any actual sex and in fact, only one brief kiss? Is it because it's 'unfinished' in that i don't have a number of parts and they can see how long until the end? It's odd.

And like i said - not begging for more comments, i'm perfectly happy with the amount that i get - my flist is amazing and wonderful and strokes my ego *quite* nicely. But the difference between parts one and three is really just...thought-provoking.

Any thoughts?

:)

Comments

[apetslife.livejournal.com]

I'd guess that it has something to do with being an ongoing story with no set posting schedule or part numbers. A lot of people hesitate to get invested in stories like that, because they're so often abandoned mid-way through! Also, some people wait for the end of a multi-part series, and then leave feedback for the whole thing. When you posted the first bit, it wasn't clear that there would be more, so people were leaving feedback for a finished story. Following parts make it into a WIP, and folks, as I said, will definitely leave less feedback for those, in my experience.

[tabaqui]

Now, i can understand that if i were a fic-abandoning crazy person but i *always* finish my stuff... :)

But yeah, i get ya. I tend to leave fb on *all* parts of a story unless i read it in one go, and then i only leave a comment on the last part.

[apetslife.livejournal.com]

I, too, always finish my stuff! Except for the two times I didn't. *grin* I think that in general people are wary of WIPs that aren't finished yet or are being "written as they go," just from long fandom exposure to such.