Hehe I thought the same. I'm also a total pessimist. I'm still obsessing over my new years resolution to become an optimist ;p. Like on fanfic.net, valley of the dead had about 120 hits for chapter 1 which dropped to about 40 for chapter 3. Lol! But then I thought 'that's still 40ish people who wanted to read on.' I know my writing is really not good but that's why I'm writing- to get better seeing as I'll be doing a degree which includes a lot of scriptwriting in September.

I also think it's much easier to comment on a batch of icons than a fic. Sometimes I can't think what to say in a review..