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[sincerely_helene]

If you have a vote and you know it deserves it, give yourself a five instead. Lots of authors do.

I considered that, but it somehow feels like cheating to me. I confess to doing it with another story once, and felt terribly guilty afterwards.

I'm just not sure how I went from a impressive 4.73, stayed there for a few months up and down and up again, than gradually deflated to a 4.49 after maintaining such a high score for such a long time.

On a side note, congrats to you, Rhino!

 

[Guest]

I considered that, but it somehow feels like cheating to me. I confess to doing it with another story once, and felt terribly guilty afterwards.

I'm just not sure how I went from a impressive 4.73, stayed there for a few months up and down and up again, than gradually deflated to a 4.49 after maintaining such a high score for such a long time.

On a side note, congrats to you, Rhino!

I wish I could help but I have already voted on all of your stories. And they were all good. Still waiting for you to write a new one.

 

[sincerely_helene]

I wish I could help but I have already voted on all of your stories. And they were all good. Still waiting for you to write a new one.

Thanks for the encouragement, Dranoel. My response wasn't meant as a plea for votes, as I am past the stage where I would be eligable for any prizes anyway. In fact, I would much prefer to steer away from any sort of sympathy vote period. I'm just still trying to get the hang of how the system works here. Floating at 4.49 is kind of like literary purgatory after maintaining a longtime, consistant 4.60-4.73 on the same story.

Also still trying to delete the one I mentioned to you previously, but not having much luck.

I haven't written anything of late aside from small musings that would be considered disrespectful to the Lit guidelines, but I will be certain to let you know if and when I do finally 'submit.'

Thank you again!

 

[Guest]

Changed my mind.

 

[sincerely_helene]

Changed my mind.

Why?

 

[Guest]

Why?

Oh, it was nothing, Helen. Certainly nothing pertaining to any of the posts before mine.

It was just a babble about a story of mine with a red H.

Lou

 

[Bandit1]

if only for a moment!!!

OK. I read the story and gave it a well deserved 5 vote.
Now what I want to know is when the hell are you going to write more?
This is an excellent story told with skill and passion.
We need more like it here at Lit!

 

[LadyJeanne]

Congrats, Rhino! H's are fun fun fun and so wonderfully satisfying.

I actually didn't even know what an H meant when I posted my first story. Had to go searching through the FAQs to figure it out when I saw it next to the story. Then I couldn't figure out why it had an H - I thought it was awful and recently pulled it cause it was so embarassingly awful and due for a complete re-write.

Submitted something new last night, so we'll see if that one pushes anyone's buttons.

Enjoy your Hottie!

 

[Guest]

 

[Kassiana]

CHORTLE!

It may only be for a moment. It may be that the evil troll will bomb it all to hell, as he has with my story "Exercise" so far. But this morning my contest entry, "Simple Gifts," had an H! A freaking H! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha HA!

Thanks to everyone who voted! You are teh AWSUMNESS! You have caused me to misspell words like a NOOB!

 

[cantdog]

To thnie own misspellings be treu.

 

[cantdog]

Rhino, it's a good solid tale, be happy, you deserve it!

I suffer from small-audience syndrome, I guess. I get an H and then the vote total drops again, and then the H reappears, only to have the vote subtracted. Eleven votes, eight votes nine votes, and back again.

One of my stories has five hundred two votes, man, but I don't especially even like incest stories so I don't feature writing too many more in the category. Still, they do freakin vote over there.

cantdog

 

[impressive]

I suffer from small-audience syndrome, I guess. I get an H and then the vote total drops again, and then the H reappears, only to have the vote subtracted. Eleven votes, eight votes nine votes, and back again.

This is true of my earlier stories -- the ones posted before I started hanging around in here. Perhaps I'm artificially inflated by 5 bombs ... but I prefer to believe otherwise.

While AHers are wonderfully supportive, they're also very talented. A PC from an AHer is worth far more to me than one from the general populace.

 

[cantdog]

I kinda love the hell out of us, don't you?

No, you're right, entirely. And if they take the time to do a thumbnail critique, even better. It's very flattering to be seen as worth the time it takes to do something like that.

cantdog

 

[impressive]

I kinda love the hell out of us, don't you?

Kinda scary, in a way, the depths of feeling this place has inspired. And yet (to quote one of my struggling poems):

"While I did not
choose
to love you, I would not now
change
...."

 

[cantdog]

Sometimes the best loves just happen.