01-27-03 @ 6:34 am EST

THERE! My picture is public again but unrateable. I am just sick and tired of finding new ratings on that thing, yet little interest in what's BEHIND the face--the writing.

If half the people who have shown interest in my personal pic and my "Stone Hand" showed half the interest in my writing as they did in those two items, I would be a happy person. Whenever I had my actual writing featured in a newsletter, I was lucky if anybody bothered to stop by and rate, but that drawing that I can't even remember why I put it in my port, and was going to delete, I cannot believe all the attention it's been getting. I know I should appreciate every rating and comment that I get, and I do appreciate the honest ones, but for God's sake, this is ridiculous. It's gotten to the point where I'm getting dozens of views and four, five, six or more ratings and/or reviews a day on those things, and if I'm lucky, a couple of people checked out the other 99% of my port, the writing part, and maybe rated one of those and reviewed.

I AM A WRITER! I am not a poorly lit photograph, and I am not an art drawing. I kind of wish more people would realize that.

I'm sorry I sound so awfully ungrateful when I really do appreciate the comments I got--I was lucky to be in a newsletter again, truly--but I just wish my writing got that kind of attention too, since it took a whole lot longer to write all that stuff than it did to draw that hand. I'm glad I never got around to uploading my figure drawing pictures here...sheesh. If I had then I bet my JOURNAL wouldn't even be getting any views anymore. o_O