LJ vs. Teaspoon
Dec. 8th, 2008 07:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dbskylerI always get very nervous before posting a story on Teaspoon. I get obsessive about feedback -- I check the reads to see how many people are clicking on it, I look for reviews and I look at the stats to see if anyone has made the story a favorite. Okay, probably a lot of people do that, but in the 24 hours after I post a story I do that a lot. Sometimes every 15 minutes. And it's always a huge sigh of relief to get the first review, and a second sigh of relief to get a second review because for some reason I've developed an idea in my head that if I can get at least two reviews of a story then it's "acceptable." I.e., two reviews means that I haven't failed as a writer. (And the sheer absurdity of that sentence as I write it down ought to cure me, but unfortunately neuroticism is harder than that to get rid of.)
But my latest story was validated and posted to Teaspoon last night and this morning I woke up to zero reviews . . . and didn't mind in the least. Because, for the very first time, I had posted the story first here on LJ. The only reason I did that (as opposed to doing a simultaneous post) is because the story was my entry to an LJ ficathon. But in consequence I had already gotten a bunch of comments back on the story here on LJ. And while the story is unlikely to be anywhere near as popular on Teaspoon as it was in this particular LJ community that it was written for, I find for the very first time that I don't really care. I already know that at least some people out in the universe like the story. So there!
Of course, I'm not going to say that I'm not thrilled that my story has, as of tonight, passed that magic "2 reviews" mark on Teaspoon (and I don't know where I got that from, really I don't), but all day today I was far more relaxed about it than I would otherwise have been. Perhaps I should post all my stories to LJ first.
But my latest story was validated and posted to Teaspoon last night and this morning I woke up to zero reviews . . . and didn't mind in the least. Because, for the very first time, I had posted the story first here on LJ. The only reason I did that (as opposed to doing a simultaneous post) is because the story was my entry to an LJ ficathon. But in consequence I had already gotten a bunch of comments back on the story here on LJ. And while the story is unlikely to be anywhere near as popular on Teaspoon as it was in this particular LJ community that it was written for, I find for the very first time that I don't really care. I already know that at least some people out in the universe like the story. So there!
Of course, I'm not going to say that I'm not thrilled that my story has, as of tonight, passed that magic "2 reviews" mark on Teaspoon (and I don't know where I got that from, really I don't), but all day today I was far more relaxed about it than I would otherwise have been. Perhaps I should post all my stories to LJ first.