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Answer to lovehurts4ever
            I am posting this missive after 4 days of working on it, because I’m not a writer and I really don’t have the time!  You see, I’m 59 years old and I drive an 18-wheeler with my husband for a living, and we cover between 150,000 to 200,000 miles every year.  I also do the dispatching and all the paperwork.  (I also don’t get home very often)
            I am trying to understand your need for comments, and the readers need for complete stories.  So I have a few ideas to toss out there.

1) After reading just about every kind of reading material there is from dentist offices to educational sites to libraries to bookstores of all kinds, I believe there are as many reasons to write as there are writers.  Each writer is unique, and therefore so are their reasons.  And they are all valid!

2) Most readers don’t leave “feedback” because the word implies some kind of professionalism.  I do not qualify!  (Believe me, I am no writer!!)  If you want comments on whether or not someone likes or dislikes your work, perhaps the word “comments” should be used instead of “feedback”.  It might work better.

3) You have the right to close your journal to the general public.  There are no questions about that.  You have the right to chose who you “friend”.  Also no question!

            4) There is one thing all writers should keep in mind.  When readers start a story, they usually expect to finish it – they want to finish it!  By closing your journal in the middle of a story, you are slapping them in the face!  That may not be your intention (I certainly hope it isn’t), but that is how it comes across.  Especially when other chapters are posted and the reader can’t get to them.

5) Maybe I have a suggestion to fix the problem.  If the writers wish to close their journals to the general public, please finish the current stories that are being told.  Then friend those you wish and close your journals.  I realize that sometimes a story doesn’t get finish because of any number of reasons, including “real life” getting in the way, or the idea just won’t come.  If that’s the case, please say so, I’ll wait.  And I’m sure everyone else will, too.  We all love the stories that are posted here, whether we say so or not.  There are few other places we can get our fix of “Jack and Ennis”.  

I’m going to quit writing now, because this is more writing that I do in a year. (I can talk a blue streak, but I can’t write for sh--!!)
                                                                                             Brigit