I shall never understand LiveJournal...

[baratron]

Dear friends,

You make no sense! On Thursday, I posted about something very, very important to me - and received 4 comments. Yesterday, I posted about something incredibly annoying, yet trivial in the grand scheme of things - and received 7 comments.

Guys - I WROTE A BOOK! I know I've written books before - technically my MPhil thesis is one; but this is a novel, and I've wanted to Be A Writer for years. And now I am one! Maybe you think it doesn't count because I borrowed the plotline and characters from a video game. Well, lots of people borrow plotlines (a certain Terry Pratchett has been known to borrow liberally from a certain William Shakespeare), and I've taken perhaps all of 3,000 words from the game. The rest of it is mine.

Maybe you were waiting to congratulate me until I finished it completely? I dunno. I'm pretty proud to get to the end of the 50,000 words. Given that I'm feeling better and am likely to be back doing College work next week, I don't know how long the rest of it is going to take. A while. Certainly longer than another month.

...People are strange.

Comments

[x-mass.livejournal.com]

a. congratulations
b. trying to manage esa forms for certain people and
c. stay alive
d, been reading as when

[mjl]

I didn't post on either, which I'm not sure makes it any better, but I did still have emails in my inbox to remind me to read them (I looked at the first post at the time but didn't read it all). I guess maybe people had more possibly helpful comments or related things to share regarding library books than about writing Elder Scrolls fiction? If LJ had a "Like" button...

Anyway, well done on writing (half) a book!

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

I read it and was amazed and impressed and all that and ... I don't know why I didn't comment. Probably because I am crap at following through these days.

[emperor]

I've long since given up trying to work out why some of my posts get ~0 comments and others get ~50.

[kshandra]

I didn't comment because I didn't read it, because I figured I didn't have sufficient context for it. But that doesn't excuse my lack of congratulations for writing the thing, and I apologize.

[elynne.livejournal.com]

The posts that have historically gotten the most comments on my LJ have been trivial/funny/about cats. Important stuff rarely gets as many comments. I try not to take it personally.... there's reasons, stuff happens, and cats.

[jinian.livejournal.com]

This stuff is really random because people's lives are random. Personally I have been working when not sleeping for what seems forever now. As I recall the library post appeared first thing in the morning for me, so I actually had a minute and an obvious response to give.

Anyway, congratulations on the 50K! And thanks for the postcard. It's much appreciated.

[firecat]

Congratulations on writing a novel! I've been wrangling computer problems so I didn't see the post until today.

I think the post I made that got the most comments was the one where I posted a picture of my kidney stone...