Addicted to Stats

FanFiction.net has this new feature which shows how many people are reading my stories, and where abouts in the world they come from. It's really interesting to see. Most of the people reading my stories seem to come from America, and then there are a few from Denmark, Poland, and the Netherlands, and also some from the UK. It only shows one Australian as having visited them, so I assume that's me! :)

Contrast that with if I had a story published. You wouldn't know how many people were reading it, or what they thought of it (I find myself checking for new reviews on Fan Fiction all the time after I've put something up there. I need the praise - it's a fantastic motivator!), unless you manage to hear something through word of mouth.

Just me thinking out loud.

Writing Break - over?

I've been taking a little break from writing at the moment (in case you didn't notice due to the lack of blogging going on).

I did submit a story on Friday, though, so we'll see how that one goes!

Besides that, I've been thinking about editing and redrafting the novel I wrote for last year's NaNoWriMo, but at the moment it's just one big task - I need to sit down and break it into little tasks that don't seem so daunting.

The weather's horrible at the moment. It's cold and raining all the time. Usually, this would be the perfect weather for me to do my writing in - either in bed or in the lounge room where the heater is, but at the moment, it's hard to do any writing.

I blame the death of my laptop (well, the corruption of its hard drive, anyway).

The other thing I really need to do is get back to posting chapters on Fan Fiction. When I've been reading other people's stories who have really good stories and then they haven't posted anything new for ages, I always tell myself 'I won't do that.' And now, it's been about four months since I posted a new chapter for my current FF story. So I should probably get going on that, too.

Here's to a productive week!