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I will be posting the chapter of What If soon here.

But I had a thought when I was typing up my post.  It tied in beautifully into what I have been thinking the last few days.

It is is simple.  Most people when they look at stats for a story, they look at reviews.  Not them themselves, well not everyone does, but the number.

But I have noticed on my fics and others out there a disturbing trend on Fanfiction and other sites.  But you see it mostly on Fanfiction and WordPress since those of us that have WordPress can see how many hits we had to the site.  And for ones like me, we can see how many visitors are clicking in.

I taught myself early on to look at the numbers, and don’t look at the reviews.  But I know how it hurts on especially new writers, or people like me to open a story we have just started, and seeing TONS of followers.  And one review.

Now, I will admit I am BAD about leaving reviews.  But I have hit that follow button for later.

Last night after thinking on it, (It was late give me a break…) but seriously.  When I hit that follow button, why can’t I leave a simple “Hey this interests me!”  Or something to that effect?  Something.  Anything?  If you can hit that follow button, you must found something that you liked on it.  So why not let the author know it?

Yeah, Fanfiction sends us emails when people follow and favorite, but to be honest, I tune them out.  I get 35 emails between me falling asleep and waking up.  Then I get more, sometimes a hundred over the day.  I empty my trash every other day of over 300 unread emails.  When you deal with that many, when you see it is not a review or an update to a story, you delete.  Sorry, but yeah.

So, I figured, after seeing my plan for World Domination (see the post following this for more information) is getting pretty far in reaching out to the world out there, I figured I could use those numbers to see if I can help out new authors or even authors like me.

Here is the official challenge:  If you are going to follow a story (Or Favorite instead of follow), leave a quick note why.  What interested you enough to hit that button?

If we do this, it might help some struggling writers out there to feel better on their works.  Since a lot of them don’t think to look at the follows and favs as much as they do those reviews.

And hey, don’t we deserve it as authors?  As Readers?  To spend a few minutes over something that may have spent hours, days, weeks, months and who knows what other issues for that writer to publish it?  Also, it may just inspire that author you loved to write more.

Who will share this?  (I am publishing this on my Reblog page for you ladies who like to hit reblog)

Who will take up my challenge?

Kittyinaz…