At 01:02 AM 2/3/97 -0500, you wrote:

As an author, I have a request.
If you see something and read it, please email the author to say
*somehting*.  Even it it's
"I liked it" or "I don't get it." or "I deleted it because the spelling
was so bad."

Hear, hear! 

I second the motion. :)

If you've already spent 10-30 minutes reading a 'fic, it costs nothing
to send a short reply.  I always try to send something back to the
authors on stories I read, even if it's only a few words.

Examples?

"Cute. :)"

"That was funny. ^_^"

"Nice characterisation, and I loved the style."

Each one of those took about five seconds to type.  Getting no commentary
on a story is VERY discouraging, especially to beginning writers, and I've
even heard established authors complain of it.  Though a reply be ever so
short, it can brighten someone's day to let them know their work's being
read.

-CW


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