Today it is my birthday.

It is weird to write about it because I'm a grown up woman nearer this year of the 40 than the 30 years old now and except on Facebook I have never share this intel outside of my relatives circle.

And when I woke up this morning a bunch of notifications were on my phone, the first I noticed was from AFF, from one of my Author Friend who was announcing how hurt and tired and disappointed she was after spending so much time, personnal time, sacrificing family time ou rest time to write the following chapters of her stories to finally be greeting by no comment at all after a 12k words chapter.

So she took the decision to stop writing, to remove her stories from this website, to cancel her author account and just creat a reader one because she was hurt by the silent readers enjoying her works, her thousand and thousand words without giving even one word in return like it wasn't worth it, like it was normal, easy, replaceable, useless at the end.

Before writing myself and posting here my chapter I was a reader there too and the first chapters I read, the first complete stories too I must confess I didn't post comment either then I posted appreciation only when I had ready the entire story because in my head i was rewarded the whole story, the plot, the way of writing it, the character evolution, the ending, in brief a complete reader critic. Finally, after reading some author's notes complaining or asking for chapter's comment, confessing us that they would feel support, encourgement to read feed back and mostly because some asked about the mystery of the plot or other things, I started to comment chapters.

Now that I am writing myself I understand how those authors and my authro friend are feeling even if i writing primarly for my own pleasure and incidentally for other then because my first goal is to enjoy english and to improve while writing and imagining my favorite artists in casual or situations. I love doing research, visual or informative ones, and i wasn't seeking for comment at first when i started posting chapters.

But I was so happy to have my first comment not longer after posting my first chapters, then suscribers raised but not the comments and no upvote appeared either. But when I looked into my favorites stories i noticed the ratio between view, comment and upvote is really low, for thousands of views there are hundreds of comments and dozens of upvotes so I a m not considering the number as a quality indicator anymore and trust my work and my ability to improve with the help of my reviewer and maybe thanks to my readers when they will have the will to comment.

But every author has his or her way to think and feel about those numbers so please readers be considerate of the authors works and don't be shy, even "good work" or "i liked it" can move them and comfort them because artists, and authors are definitely artists since they are creating something, can be insecure, doubtful about their own abilities to write.

So as my birthday and chrismas gift I would like to ask you to considerate their works and efforts and support the authors you like!

Thank you by advance and have a good time and an happy new year if I don't post before that.

Bises!