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Jun. 22nd, 2018 10:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mithen--What does writing success look like to you?
I really like this question! I have a fair amount of sheerly material ways I decide if something I write has been "successful"--in the little, scattered fandom I'm currently in, I fret a bit if my fic gets less than five comments, for example. I also will sometimes check my kudos-to-hits ratio, which I like to be above 15%. There are a couple of readers, like my husband, that if I can get the desired response from them, I feel like I've achieved my goals even if the story doesn't do well in the AO3 stats area, you know? But the most important measure is my own personal satisfaction, and as long as I enjoyed myself writing it, that's what counts the most for me.
I really like this question! I have a fair amount of sheerly material ways I decide if something I write has been "successful"--in the little, scattered fandom I'm currently in, I fret a bit if my fic gets less than five comments, for example. I also will sometimes check my kudos-to-hits ratio, which I like to be above 15%. There are a couple of readers, like my husband, that if I can get the desired response from them, I feel like I've achieved my goals even if the story doesn't do well in the AO3 stats area, you know? But the most important measure is my own personal satisfaction, and as long as I enjoyed myself writing it, that's what counts the most for me.
