The trouble with hit counts

[lizardbeth]

When I post a multi-part fic to a place where I can see how many reads each part gets, I shouldn't look. It's depressing to know exactly how many people looked at part one and decided not to read any more. At least if it's a one-parter I can tell myself everyone who clicked on it actually read it (which is not true, but I can pretend).

But on the bright side I can presume that people who go on must think the story's okay, right?

Speaking of things that suck, I still have no voice. I'm like a boy frog going through puberty. Croak-squeak-whisper-croak I wish my vocal cords would just get better already.

And yet I have a new kick-ass Teyla icon, because she is of the awesome. Well, she would be, if TPTB ever got their heads out of their butts and let her be awesome again. So not all is bad.

Comments

[audreyscastle.livejournal.com]

I know the feeling....I've got a multi-chapter story, and the hit count just goes down, down, down.....

Though on one chapter, it had more hits than the one before it and the one after it...I'm like "Huh?"

[lizardbeth-j.livejournal.com]

That's people skipping forwardto see if things get better/have more porn/whatever. For Going Home (which has the most chapters so it's easier to see), the last chapter also goes way up, telling me readers want to know how it ends, just not slog through how it got there. (but it's not slogging, it's not! *sniffle*)

[audreyscastle.livejournal.com]

I am sooooo there with you. Written in the Stars is taking its sweet time, and watching the chapter counts go up and down (usually down) can get downright depressing sometimes, especially since then you see the "The Carter-O'Neill twins save the world!" with 1004843439843084 reviews (okay, maybe I exaggerate a bit)....

[lizardbeth-j.livejournal.com]

Not too much exaggerating really, considering the crap Sam/Jack fics I've seen with a gazillion squees...

Whining aside, I reconciled to low readership a long time ago. I've always known that the mega pairings are where to go to get the big readers, and I've never done it in any fandom. Multishipping and second-tier characters are not the way to win at fandom, but *shrug* what else ya gonna do when the most popular pairing makes you want to spork out your eyes?

[audreyscastle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm not so much reaching for the spork with the onscreen stuff, because it hasn't gone there with undeniable proof...but a lot of the fic has me with spork in one hand and bleach in the other....

And I'm right there with you...if I wanted squees, I'd write S/J, but it's more fun to do the less mainstream thing.

Though Amanda had such a GREAT quote in an interview....on Sam, how she'd always hang herself up wondering what it would be like to end up with Jack....so she made a comment that they should get together, "have one night of wild, just incredible sex, then be like, okay, movin' on." I think you may have to save me from a lynch mob if I write that...I'm thinking I'll call it "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad"....

[lizardbeth-j.livejournal.com]

heh, I'm sure there must be S/J fic where it's not all 'let's get married and be in LUV forever and ever' and more of the 'wow is this a really bad idea'. But since I avoid the pairing label like the plague, I wouldn't know. :)

Yeah, I read that, or at least one of the interviews she said that. It was awesome, since it pretty much matched my idea of sam/jack. And I think the fact that she doesn't buy the UST either (and RDA's been playing it down for years and years) shows in the scenes they get shoved together by the writers in these later years.

It's one of those things i might have bought back in s.4 -- I didn't care for it all that much, but okay, it's canon, fine. But over time it just got more and more ridiculous. These are military officers, and yet they can't seem to make a decision? For ten years? It makes them both pathetic.

[audreyscastle.livejournal.com]

Yeah.... :) We could have a wedding!

....if you wanna torture the audience!