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alexandraerin) wrote2011-04-13 12:47 pm
alexandraerin) wrote2011-04-13 12:47 pm
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READER MAIL BLAG!
Okay, so I should be writing now according to my routine, but I'm also eating lunch because I ordered it in and it didn't get here until the end of my "lunch break". I think I'm going to have an okay writing day anyway, even with this interruption.
Anyway, I've seen a spike in reader e-mail... I got one after I made my contact email really visible on the Tales of MU site, and now I've got one that I believe relates to the fact that I turned off anonymous questions on Formspring. I believe this kind of underscores how much of my Formspring traffic was stuff that would be better for email in the first place, being multipart questions or more in the nature of being feedback or comments than questions.
(This isn't why I closed the nonny-door at Formspring. I really wouldn't care for those questions to follow me to email.)
Number one question in my email inbox, in fact, are variations of Why did you close your Formspring?
First, I'd like to point out that you can still 'spring me... you just need to be signed in and make your account name visible to me. You can use your Facebook account or create a Formspring account. Neither costs anything. You don't have to put any real identifying information into a Formspring account. This isn't an attempt by me to harvest your identity. It's just raising the minimum effort people need to exert to use Formspring to be a dick in my general direction and giving me the ability to block them when they do.
And that's the why right there. The specific event that prompted it was someone getting all up in arms over the idea that I don't work on weekends and me realizing how much of my weekend I was giving up to answer this person's objections. If this had been an isolated incident I wouldn't have changed my account status over it, but it sort of fits a pattern where (seemingly) one individual with a fixation or entitlement complex latches onto an issue and uses my Formspring account to hammer me until they hear what they want to hear. No more.
I'm not talking about the repetitive magi-physics questions or the ones abouthow I type with boxing gloves evil gods. Even if I sigh and roll my eyes a bit, those aren't really a problem.
If anybody else has questions about weekends and my work schedule and all that... take a look at the MU site right now. There was a 45 hundred word story on Friday. There was a 55 hundred word story on Monday. There is a five thousand word story up today. There will be a story of similar length on Friday.
Is this not to your liking? Is there something about this you would like to see changed about this arrangement? To put it in stark and simple terms:
Other questions in my email:
Are the incentives for the current fundraiser OTs, or something else?
They aren't specifically OTs. I'm not offering stories, I'm offering plotlines/answers. Some of them may be resolved through an OT if it doesn't fit neatly into the main ongoing story, but to use an example: the bit with Twyla in the cafeteria in the latest regular chapter? That's part of an arc, an arc that's starting because of the first incentive.
The volume change was well done, but why didn't you give more warning?
Again, I got several variations on this, and comments on the end of volume 1 and the current chapters reflect a similar sentiment.
This really underscores the difficulty of trying to communicate with one's audience. Most people just read the story. They don't read my blog. They skip any announcement posts. Their eyes bounce off any notes I put above or below it.
I really don't know what more I could have done to make people aware of what I was planning there.
And that's really it for trending questions at the moment.
Anyway, I've seen a spike in reader e-mail... I got one after I made my contact email really visible on the Tales of MU site, and now I've got one that I believe relates to the fact that I turned off anonymous questions on Formspring. I believe this kind of underscores how much of my Formspring traffic was stuff that would be better for email in the first place, being multipart questions or more in the nature of being feedback or comments than questions.
(This isn't why I closed the nonny-door at Formspring. I really wouldn't care for those questions to follow me to email.)
Number one question in my email inbox, in fact, are variations of Why did you close your Formspring?
First, I'd like to point out that you can still 'spring me... you just need to be signed in and make your account name visible to me. You can use your Facebook account or create a Formspring account. Neither costs anything. You don't have to put any real identifying information into a Formspring account. This isn't an attempt by me to harvest your identity. It's just raising the minimum effort people need to exert to use Formspring to be a dick in my general direction and giving me the ability to block them when they do.
And that's the why right there. The specific event that prompted it was someone getting all up in arms over the idea that I don't work on weekends and me realizing how much of my weekend I was giving up to answer this person's objections. If this had been an isolated incident I wouldn't have changed my account status over it, but it sort of fits a pattern where (seemingly) one individual with a fixation or entitlement complex latches onto an issue and uses my Formspring account to hammer me until they hear what they want to hear. No more.
I'm not talking about the repetitive magi-physics questions or the ones about
If anybody else has questions about weekends and my work schedule and all that... take a look at the MU site right now. There was a 45 hundred word story on Friday. There was a 55 hundred word story on Monday. There is a five thousand word story up today. There will be a story of similar length on Friday.
Is this not to your liking? Is there something about this you would like to see changed about this arrangement? To put it in stark and simple terms:
Other questions in my email:
Are the incentives for the current fundraiser OTs, or something else?
They aren't specifically OTs. I'm not offering stories, I'm offering plotlines/answers. Some of them may be resolved through an OT if it doesn't fit neatly into the main ongoing story, but to use an example: the bit with Twyla in the cafeteria in the latest regular chapter? That's part of an arc, an arc that's starting because of the first incentive.
The volume change was well done, but why didn't you give more warning?
Again, I got several variations on this, and comments on the end of volume 1 and the current chapters reflect a similar sentiment.
This really underscores the difficulty of trying to communicate with one's audience. Most people just read the story. They don't read my blog. They skip any announcement posts. Their eyes bounce off any notes I put above or below it.
I really don't know what more I could have done to make people aware of what I was planning there.
And that's really it for trending questions at the moment.
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