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?"

[telscha.livejournal.com]

hmmm some of that was me. Thing was i was reading part one with kids around and they have this habit of reading over my shoulder so i had close the screen. Then the net died. So it took me 3 hits to read part one.
I can go read part 2 twice more if you like :P