#updated this w/ a new person and image added b/c honestly

[katetcake]

Comments on fics are important to authors. Especially on ongoing works.

But don't be afraid to leave something as seemingly insignificant as:

Or

While I can't speak for every author, I'm sure a good portion of us would smile and love (or maybe just like) something like this.

It shows that not only did you read and like the story, it means you liked it enough to tell us.

I definitely had anxiety abt leaving comments as first. Especially when I couldn't explain what specifically I liked and what specifically stood out to me.

It wasn't until I started writing regularly that I realized, you don't always need to do that. Sure sometimes those types of comments are preferred (since they're like a type of critique/feedback), but just getting a comment from someone saying they liked it is more than enough!

I love comments that simply tell me that the reader enjoyed it!

While you can't always tell tone through text, we can pick up on subtle things: Capitalization. Words used. Typos. Punctuation.

Each of those things helps paint a picture of the reader's experience.

This was left on a chapter where nothing really happened. It's a bridging chapter meant to link the end of the current mini arc w/ the start of the main arc.

I don't really expect much feedback on this chapter because even I find it to be fairly devoid of substance. Sure stuff happened, nothing super major of note. Not like the first chapter that establishes the world and the main character. Not like the second chapter that establishes the conflict and further establishes the world and the character's actions. Just a bridge. Nothing new was established in this chapter.

This person has left a comment like on just about every chapter I post. It honestly makes me smile a lot. I've run into the problem where I want to kudos every chapter is it comes out, but as we all know, you can only kudos something once. Of course, it can also be because they like the chapter but can't point to one specific thing that happened that they liked, so they do the next best thing.

So for someone to read an update and still want to leave a comment despite how little happened, or because they can't kudos individual chapters. Well. It's simply amazing.