How does one story touch a reader  yet another one doesn't.  I don't know but this is the big question on my mind.  The past week, I have posted two stories both are on this journal.  One generated a lot of comments but the other was virtually ignored and the funny thing for me was, the one that I thought was the better written of the two seemed to be the one that everyone ignored.  I mean no comments at all, not even negative ones.  So I guess that it was okay just didn't evoke the emotion that the other one did. 

What two stories am I referring to?  The Real Reason that Myers Left and Second Chance.  Although both stories dealt with missed chances, change and loss, for some reason Myers really struck a chord with many of the readers.  Could it be because Myers dealt with a concealed pregnancy and the possibility that the father may never know that child that touched the readers, while Chances dealt with death?  Or could it be the fandoms involved, Myers was Hellboy and Chances was Sentinel, I don't know. 

But I remember someone saying that no comment is worse than a bad comment.  I guess this can be true because the reader felt that the story wasn't worth the time to even say that, in the words of Jay Sherman, "It stinks."   (That's from The Critic for you non cartoon watchers, lol).  Interesting.

Anyway, how do you writers handle a story that you worked hard on but seems to generate no reaction?  Do you become discouraged and think of all the ways the story failed on so many levels or do you say, "oh well, all it cost them was the time to read it"?  I tend to go with the second reaction and then get to work on my next story or update.  In my opinion, this helps me keep my sanity.  What little my family thinks that I have left anyway.

That's my thoughts for today... I'm off to update more.  I am sitting by my big living room window, which is where I tend to write because I find the words of G. Masterton to be true...

LESSON NINE: Write with your eyes. Don't see words, see people. Look out of the window and see the thunderclouds gathering on the other side of the river. Be conscious while you're doing it of the woman standing close behind you. You keep lookng out of the window but she lays her hand on your shoulder. You can smell her perfume. She says, 'You're frightened, aren't you?' And you say, 'No. Maybe. I don't know. It was the way he looked at me when he left.' 'I don't understand,' she says, and you turn around to face her. 'Nobody ever looked at me like that before. He looked as if he wanted to cut my guts out and hang me up on a hook.'   

 http://www.grahammasterton.co.uk/rulesofwriting.html

I see my scene as I write.  The characters act it out and I am the stenographer writing it all down.  Having been a director in the theatre also helps  because it helps me to see the whole picture.  Not just movements and scenes but motivations behind the movements and the words.

That's all from me... hugs to you all...