Desire for more reviews?

I want to know if readers experience a visceral emotional reaction to my work. I want to know if I'm reaching them. Really making them feel it. Sometimes, it's nice to be reminded that we're not just voices quacking into a void.

I think this pretty much sums up how I feel, too. I mean, ultimately we're all trying to make the reader feel something, right? And I think whether a piece of writing is in fact as scary or funny or sad (or whatever) as you intended it to be is incredibly hard, if not downright impossible, to judge for yourself. After all, you've been staring at that passage for the past however-long, rearranging phrases and changing words around, so of course it has no emotional impact on you at this point. So, yeah, it's nice to get feedback that confirms that it had the intended effect on somebody.

A while back I posted some original fiction and got two comments (which is pretty good for original fiction ), which were both along the lines of "this made me want to cry". I think I'd take those two comments over twenty reviews saying "I liked this, it was good". I mean, it seems a bit callous to respond to something like that with "Great, that's what I was going for!", but...

... okay, wow, I've now expended way too many words in saying "I agree with you."

Well, yeah, of course. I'd rather take quality over quantity, too, rather have a well thought out review telling me what the reviewer thinks about the piece over five "This was good" reviews and ten favs... but well, one takes what one can get, heh.

Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken. Unrelated ME1 Fanfic

The thing is, I'd still rather get favorites and no reviews than absolutely nothing. Favorites, alerts, hits, they all tell me people are reading it, at the very least.

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