Glastica

Why? Why does this happen?

*face desk*

What's that?

It's like a face-palm...but I replaced my palm with the desk I'm writing this from.

It's what I do every time I come across something about Glastica.

Glastica is one of those early books I did while testing the waters of writing and publishing.

I did not even have eBook formatting down yet when I wrote and published it.

But once it hit eBook format (as a free format) it not only racked up high numbers of downloads (mostly due to it being free) but it racked up the most critiquing and likes on Amazon and Goodreads.

Why?

I DON'T KNOW!

This is what I'm asking myself!

Over! And over!

And sure I took pride in that work. I still do...kind of...it was one of my earlier works where I was working with a format I was unfamiliar with.

But if the writing style being broken was not bad enough (I was working with an unfamiliar format and did not do well as an editor back then)...

The characters were very befuddling, as their concepts became lost in a nonsense of pile ups in what was me trying to handle an alien/science fiction setting rather than a fantasy setting...also I did not write out what I had planned out and should have focused on that more when it was necessary.

Due to my poor editing as well (actually I can't say that, I was hardly anything of an editor at the time, and I had nobody else helping me in that regards) many scenes that were supposed to be removed, altered, or fixed were left as they were in the second or third drafts. Leading to some nonsense and mix ups.

In the end, after reading over the thing following some of the positive feedback I got over a year ago...I was left changing the fate of the sequel so that it explains and conpensates for the problems in the first book.

I mean, I fucked this book up so badly, I'm having problems writing the second book. And sequels don't come so difficult to me.

(Tale of Two Sisters aside, I am just juggling a balance of character concepts, emotions and logic in that story.)

So...why does this book get so much feedback?

And it's not all negative, which a majority of it is.

"An unpolished gem" was what one critic called it, referring to its problems overshadowing how good the story could have been. I refer to this one because this has to be the most intellectual and in depth feedback I have gotten on any book ever.

And there are plenty of low votes that refer to how bad this piece of work was.

Yet there are people who are outright loving it with an addition of 5 star ratings.

And I'm brought back to my same question.

Why? Why does this happen?

Do you have a thought about this strange occurence?