The thing about writing for magazines is that you very rarely get the feedback that all writers secretly crave. Editors are always moving onto the next issue, and the thing about magazines is that when you get to the end of an article, you don’t find a “comment here” box to offer your thoughts on it, you just turn the page and start reading a new one.
Any discussion of an article you’ve written feels like validation, even if just some illiterate 12 year old questioning your parentage – so it’s doubly nice when someone enjoys your article enough to actually say so:
I thought James Hunt’s article on 25 [Online] Scams was a very useful contribution to public knowledge.
Why yes! Now that you mention it, it was! Apparently I’m allowed to put magazine articles up after 3 months have passed, so if someone reminds me after that time I’ll stick a version of it up here so that everyone can bask in its helpful glow.
