There is a writer, I love every work she has written so far and I comment or leave kudos every chapter/work that she had published. Is that too much? I'm feeling like a stalker.
Odds are you are now that author’s favourite reader and they have you specifically in mind when they write because they’re looking forward to your reaction to it :D
At least, that’s how it goes for me.
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Reblogging for @onedamnminuteadmiral‘s very accurate tags.
Something I’ve found being the commenter in this situation… They worry when you stop too. I’ve more than once been confronted with the fact I am Known and Acknowledged when an author’s been like ‘Oh thank goodness, you didn’t comment last chapter I thought you were sick of it’. I’ve also had authors hyped to hear from me if I’ve returned to a fandom after disappearing for a while. I’ve had one ask if I was ok because I disappeared for a while. They know you and they love you.
Can confirm my wife has a favorite commenter, when they leave a new comment on something she’s written I get ‘BABE BABE BABE COME HEAR I GOT A COMMMENT FROM X’ and I hustle to hear her read it out loud to me, her eyes shining the whole time, her whole body vibrating with joy, blushing her head off and smiling from ear to ear. She reads them and rereads them and I can always tell by the look on her face. Every comment from a favorite commenter is a love letter and listen friends you are loved in return.
She speculates about what Favorite Commenter will think of things in the new chapter, if they’ll guess new twists coming up in the plot, if they’ll like how she works in a new character or a rarepair in the b plot of the story. She talks about her hopes that Favorite Commenter will enjoy a new story she’s working on. She says things like ‘Favorite Commenter was said something about Y and it’s not actually where I’m going, but it’s given me a new idea…’ Every comment from a favorite commenter is an inspiration, and they are writing for you.
And honestly, from my experience, having a favorite commenter can keep you writing even when you don’t have the emotional wherewithal to write for yourself. A lot of people advise authors to write for themselves and to heck with anyone else, but there are times you can’t. For years, I didn’t write for myself–I wrote for my favorite commenter. It meant that was the only person who saw a lot of my writing. But it also meant that I didn’t stop.
Don’t ever hesitate to tell someone how much you love their writing or why.
I love seeing people who are consistent. Makes me feel like my work is consistent as well. Frankly, anything positive is welcome. It’s when people are negative that we writers recoil. As I told someone else recently, as long as you don’t show up on my doorstep uninvited or mail me a dead rabbit, we’re good!
I would love if someone commented on every chapter of my stories
