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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 2272954" data-attributes="member: 11697">Few comments doesn't mean that you're doing something wrong. I honestly suspect that around 10% of a SH's readership might post within a given time period, sometimes less depending on what's going on.Storyhours also tend to need one or two people who really get into your stuff and then with a little namedropping by them you get more readers. For some of us this was easier than others. My own storyhours since they were set within an established campaign setting had an inbuilt rabid fanbase, and I've had a growing number of readers since I started, in no small part due to preexisting interest in the stuff. And if need be, pimp your SH on relevant forums (like your Darksun one) and link to it in the course of discussions where it might even marginally apply.As for getting better at writing, I might be bad help here since I have no formal writing training and I never got above a B in any of my college english or lit classes. However when I write, and I write alot, I do it entirely for fun. But here's my own suggestions: read backwards by paragraph to see if the story flow works, which I do half the time since I never write anything from start to finish in a linear fashion. I skip around from idea to idea, portion of a story to the next portion and tie them back together later, but I write what comes to mind at any given moment and what is most perking my interest when I'm writing a given story. It works for me at least, but than again I also drink about 10 shots of espresso a day.</blockquote>

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