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Message: <blockquote data-quote="el-remmen" data-source="post: 1246047" data-attributes="member: 11">Of course, "best" and "most viewed" do not necessarily mean the same thing, or else mine would be the most viewed <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />But seriously, I really can't say what makes people start reading a story hour.  I started mine when there were only about 15 or less story hours (I think really only a dozen) being updated (Heck, (cntxt)'s original TOEE was still going, no one knew who Sepulchrave was and Wulf Ratbane was only 3rd level <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />), so I really think any original popularity I had was due to lack of options. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />And while it may seem like a cop-out, if you don't like writing your story hour or it seems like too much trouble then maybe you should just not write it.  I enjoy enjoy writing mine and as time has gone on I have had fewer readers not more. . . but I continue to keep writing until the campaign storyline ends or there is TPK, but at the same time I doubt I would ever undertake such an endavor again, because I don't think I'd want to take so much time again. And because once I did start if I did not keep updating the most disappointed person would be myself. Ultimately, I hope to print out the several hundred page word doc that this my SH and hand it bound to each of my players as a gift in memory of this game when it is done.If you are writing for other people and other people don't seem to appreciate it, then stop writing, maybe people will start posting and say, "Hey! where the heck did ya go?" Or maybe they won't - I can't say - But nobody here is trying to rub the popularity of their story in your face and nobody here wants to see anyone else "fail" - Heck, I am proud of how story hour authors tend to try to help each other out and try check out each others stories or are willing to give advice - So, if you have an issue with it, you really need to see that it is your own issue originating from yourself not from the folks that want nothing else but to share their stories and help out others when they can.</blockquote>

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