So yes. At this current point in time, I've decided to quit / put aside DeviantART for awhile. Been thinking about doing this for awhile now, mostly for the following reasons:
1. I'm essentially seeing hardly anybody cares at all. No offense to people that wish to read but unfortunately have busy schedules. Fact of the matter is: Nothing I post gets any feedback, comments, or an input what-so-ever. Things seldom even acquire reads anymore. My latest post got a total of 10 reads. 10 reads out of 149 watchers. Rather sad. Not only that, but the project I love most - Quintessence - only got 2 reads on the latest chapter.

2 out of 149. I cannot accept that.

2. This ties in a little bit with point one, but the DeviantART community isn't all that great, supportive, or meaningful anymore. Everytime I try to revive my watcher base, I spam advertisements anywhere and everywhere on forums, chats, etc. Most of the time, probably less than 1% of people respond back to me. And of that, I'd say probably 85-95% of them are just generic "Oh hey, this is cool." comments that don't build up on what I already know.

3. This isn't exactly as major of a point as the other 2, but college is slightly hectic at the moment. I find it hard to concentrate on writing, especially when I have this fixed notion in my mind that nobody is even going to care what I write about even if I do sit down and post it.

Now, hopefully nobody will take this as some sort of angry letter of "How dare feedback not be posted!". All I'm trying to say is that the most important people to me and my writing career are the people that tell me how they feel about certain things. I'm aware of the "Silent Watcher" factors, but I thought with the introduction of PDFs and the download feature, I'd be able to keep better track of who all was reading. Since the download numbers are so low, I see that such a factor is negligible.

I've grown thin from pleading with the public to read. I'm afraid on this site which is biast against writers and literature artists, there's not a whole lot of room for people that can't paint a pretty picture or alter a nice portrait of Naruto in photoshop.

Now, should anybody still be reading at this point and you do wish to continue following me and my writing, I'm presently trying to establish a writing base elsewhere in a smaller community. Should you wish to know about this relocation destination, send me a note here on D.A. and I'll be certain to get back to you once everything has been established.

Who knows. Perhaps I'll return to D.A. once there is a greater acceptance for writers and an easier way to share work. For now though, I'm going to see how the relocation works out.

Thank you all for your time.

Sincerely,
~Doctor Psycho