Catching Idle Butterflies

Hard Work ≠ Increased Readership

For those of you who don’t know, my mom has been creating paintings mimicking famous artists, but manipulating them by adding the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 television show characters. After enough people requested prints, she decided to sell them both on eBay and from her own website (http://www.mst3k-fic.com/g.html ).

She observed some of the paintings she spent months on people pass by, whereas the ones she took less than an hour she can’t sell enough of.

In writing I’ve observed the same. Take my last two entries. Sunday’s I spent a lot of time on, even attempting to write in a more literary voice. I was rather proud of how it turned out. I received tepid response. Then comes yesterday. Over twice the comments, and many of them saying how much they loved the entry. I spent all of five minutes splattering my words up on the screen, whereas Sunday I spent almost an hour putting that entry together.

Granted, Sundays are usually slower than Mondays when it comes to the number of views, so that could be the biggest reason I received few comments.

I’m not complaining. I find it interesting how some of our writing gets more comments and/or reviews than others. More often than not it has nothing to do with how much time we spend writing them, how much of our heart and soul we pour into our words, or even how much we end up liking or disliking what we wrote.

Just goes to show we can never formulae human response.