This isn’t a prompt but some questions: have you ever started a story you liked/thought would be popular/get lots of prompts but it didn’t get a reaction? How about the other way around, something you felt was sort of boring yet it got lots of requests? And how about for certain plot twists you introduce within a story: can you see interest go up or down? Does it bother you or keep things fun? Sorry if this is intrusive, feel free not to answer, I’m just curious. Thank you!
Oh man yes. To all of this.
I won’t say it outright bothers me but it can be depressing in the ‘maybe I’m not doing as good as I thought I was? Maybe this chapter was subpar?’ way. At least when interests wane away.
Its always nice when things are popular but I get more antsy when interest is lost because it makes me wonder if I’ve done badly.
And there is a lot of stories I’ve felt have been in the Meh department that suddenly got a LOT of attention and stuff I thought would interest people went practically unnoticed. So its kind of a coin flip at this point.
It does highlight however that everyone is different and just cause I like it won’t mean everyone else will heh.