Quote by rolandlytle
Today I came into my home from spending the day with my grandkids when my wife found my cat behind the couch, dead. We cried.

He sat on my lap for hours every day. We slept at night with his head resting on my leg.

He was my closest, in person, non family, friend. I shall miss him dearly.

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My recovery from the heart attack is progressing as well as can be expected. I wanted to pop in and tell you all that although I'm still a bit sheepish on rating your works, I have enjoyed many pieces that I have read very much.

What a variety of subject matter and writing styles, thank-you.

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I think that you will find that most stories get more views than poems, but slightly lower scores. Most of your work is poetic in nature where most of mine is prose.

I believe that the higher view count is partially attributed to off-site/non-member readers. With a shorter piece it is often hard to find flaw enough to lower a score than a work of several thousand words. With a longer story it is easier to have flawed pace or flow thus making the story less interesting. Of course I could be wrong about that. Many of the nuances of good poetry tend to be difficult for me. It is a very difficult skill to put so much into so few words.

Another thing is the site itself. If you have been here longer, you will recall it used to be more difficult to get higher scored. Also older stories have a better chance to have picked up a 1 or 2 score from trolls. Otherwise you would have an even higher average than me.

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I now have over 30,000 views on my 28 stories. That is about 1075 views per story. I never would have thought anyone would be that interested in anything I wrote.

I also have a 4.95 scoring average. That is BS. It should be no higher than 4.25, I think, but people are just being nice to the old fart. (one of the more affectionate terms my better half uses for me, most are R rated and can not be written here)

Roland, how did you get the overall story view count and the average score of 4.95? Did you go through them all and add the figures up, or is it posted somewhere?