Well THAT was a pleasant previous entry wasn't it... Ummm.. let's see, more business on writing... I would be lying if I said that I wrote entirely for myself, because obviously I don't. If I wrote entirely for myself, then I would not put it online, I would not nag people to read it, and I would not carefully read/listen to responses, et cetera. Do I care if my writing and my characters are liked? Well, obviously yes. Do I think there's something with that? No. No, I don't.

Am I a hitslut? Why yes. Do I think there's something wrong with that? No.

But do I do thinks to please other people. Sometimes, yes. Clarity's Valentine's Special is a very good example of this~mostly, its outcome was decided by popular opinion around me and not what would have actually happened had I kept the characters in character (as several people have pointed out to me). But for the most part, no, I do not write in accordance with the popular opinion around me. If I did, the homosexual character population of claris and clarity would skyrocket. =P

I think I do get a fair amount of hits and I guess I can sort of admit that maybe there's a small portion of people out there who like me and stuff. But even if I have any popularity it wouldn't say anything for the quality of my work, because a lot of crap is popular. The same would also work if I were unpopular (which I think I am~), because a lot of crap is unpopular. BUT, a lot of high quality things are popular and unpopular, too. So the point is that popularity, while a most often used gauge, really does not mean much of anything in terms of quality.