When I checked last night, I had sixteen fans on Facebook.
That doesn't sound like very many to you, maybe. I know authors personally who have maybe ten thousand, maybe more.
But I made a Facebook site for myself - as an author - just a couple nights ago. Having sixteen fans is incredibly humbling - having fans at all is humbling! I know, like I said, you're probably thinking "what's the big deal?" The way I see it is...that's more people than I can count on both hands that are pulling for me, waiting to see my work...that's a lot more people that I feel like I'd let down if I failed to write mind-blowingly amazing prose.
That might sound a little melodramatic to you, but I can assure you that this is a whole new motivation for me to succeed. Before this, I was just writing for me, tinkering with drafts with no real consequences if I failed to make a chapter awesome.
Fans...even if they're all mostly your real-life friends...even if there's only a handful...even if I'm still a nobody (!)...do make *all* the difference.
Thank you all so much.
