I'm very much with you on #1. I'm not entirely sure what I'd be writing if I was writing to encourage comments, but I suspect I'd write a lot less and have a lot less fun. I jump around far too much to get a dedicated following and I'm really average. Any comment I get is lovely, but it's not my motivation.
I really get where you're coming from on #2 as well. I recently wrote a fic that got a spat of comments asking for a sequel and that was just really awkward. I get that they want more, but it felt invasive. IDK.
Comments aren't the end all and be all of writing and the focus on them always makes me feel odd. Like maybe I should care more, but if I did I wouldn't write half of what I do.
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I really get where you're coming from on #2 as well. I recently wrote a fic that got a spat of comments asking for a sequel and that was just really awkward. I get that they want more, but it felt invasive. IDK.
Comments aren't the end all and be all of writing and the focus on them always makes me feel odd. Like maybe I should care more, but if I did I wouldn't write half of what I do.