Writer Without Readers

I don’t just write blog posts. Quite recently, I had a person who read my stories, but she - my sister - has tired of that, so now I don’t have an audience anymore. I do post my stories here and there online, but even if I sometimes get visitors, there are no guarantees that they’ll read anything. Quite the contrary. When I look at the stats from my tracker, I realize that most of those who visit my page, and those are few enough to begin with, only stay for a few seconds. Not long enough to read anything.

On the other hand, I love to read. I read my own stories and that’s quite a lot of fun in itself. Maybe I’ll have to settle for that. But it’s always nice to get some feedback. I don’t ask for any detailed critiques. Something like this will do nicely - like: ‘that was fun’ or ‘exciting’ or ‘I liked the second one better’. Anything is better than not learning anything at all. Except for when people totally dismiss my stories. If that’s all they can do, they might as well surf on.

Maybe I write really bad stories or they’re boring. It’s a little hard to tell for me. I don’t think that’s it.

When I read other people’s stories, the impression I get is that my stories are at least as good. Even published writers don’t always write better than I do. I think. But like I mentioned before, I could be wrong. I don’t think I’m a lot better than everyone else. Definitely not. I know that I’m better than some, very few, published writers, as good as some, and not as good as quite a few. But that’s still not enough to be read.

So I keep on struggling. One day I might be a little better at it. I might never get published, but that’s ok. What’s most important to me is knwoing that I write stories that are quite ok, or preferably quite good. And that someone will read my stories.