Little Squee

[amberfocus]

So, I checked my stats today at Teaspoon and am doing a little happy dance because 110 people have now favorited Wolf Moon.  Up until this story the most I got was 62 for A Place in Time, which I thought was really cool considering I wrote it pretty early on and didn't have much of a following at that point.  But this...110...that just makes me go squee.  I just passed my sixth month anniversary of writing fanfic on the 18th, so you can imagine how overjoyed this makes me.

And to think I fought the Wolf Moon plot bunny for a week or so before giving in and writing it down and starting the story.  Of course, the only reason I fought it so hard was because even then I saw the scope and size of it, though it was a lot more nebulous.  But now with an additional 11 stories in the series planned, well, epic almost feels like an understatement.  A very scary understatement.  But I'm still going to do it.  I do so love a challenge when it comes to writing.

It's also now surpassed my most reviewed story as well, which was You Reap What You Sow at 389.  Four more reviews to go and it'll have hit 400.  Wow, I'm floored.  Makes me wonder what it might have been if I hadn't brought so many of my reviewers over here so they didn't have to wait on Teaspoon mods to put a chapter up.  (Over 12 hours yesterday, don't know how much longer as I went to sleep but it was up at 7:45 this morning). 

Oh, I know it's all so silly to be happy over these goofy things, but you know what?  I still am.  It makes me go Squeeeeee!

Comments

[nina-ds.livejournal.com]

I understand the excitement. I actually prefer the interaction on LJ, you can link to things, you can use icons that comment on your comment, you can keep a conversation going if it warrants it... But there's something exciting about seeing the statistics on TSP - I was stunned to see one of my stories hit over 1000 views of the first chapter! And it makes me more likely to comment on other people's work, I shamefully admit.

[amberfocus.livejournal.com]

I prefer the interaction here, too. I've become an icon addict and I love the bantering back and forth that you really can't do on Teaspoon. But I love stats. I got addicted to them back when I wrote my first blog a couple years ago and had over 100,000 hits before my first year. It was so exciting to see my readership grow and it's just as exciting doing it writing fiction as it was doing it writing real life. Especially since fiction writing has always been my main goal.

I think I comment more on other people's work for the same reason. *grins*