I have found a bit of "noteriety" so far on three of the six groups I belong to. Other groups are not "vibrant" enough. When I want to, I bounce from one to the other, and get involved in three or four conversations at once. Sort of reminds me of "partying" in the seventies. We would pile six or eight of us in two cars and go "searching for parties" on Friday night. You went where something was "happening" or you "made something happen". I've been kicked out the finest places.
People are reading me, when I post stuff at groups, and I like that, I like it immensely. And a couple of people are now visiting the website, and getting into other sections, and I like this as well.
The thunderstorm of interest hasn't arrived, and I'm reading some pretty good poetry on the groups, too, so the feeling of "camaraderie on the internet (yada yada yada) " is starting to take ahold again. I'm starting to feel addicted, again though. I was trying to keep my posts at the "top of the heap" , but then actually felt like I was "communicating" instead of participating in the useless banter for which internet chat is famous.
I applaud the moderator of the Shortstories4Daydreamers group, Andy O'Hara, who seems to take a personal interest in the people who post on his group. It's almost like his little kingdom, and the feeling is very good "participating". I even noticed that I haven't posted that much of my work there. Lyric Liar is still one of my favorites. There is a good mix of creative souls, and people who read them and comment constantly. The addictive nature of groups, or clubs, as they used to be called, is the feeling that, as I just mentioned, one is going from party conversation to party conversation, and one is also presenting his art and literature to a like minded, creative crowd. I am savoring the flavor of belonging again. It feels special. I'm just wondering if I'm at the point where I want to join more groups, stop participating in the ones I'm already in, or start my own group again. I should think I learned the last time not to have my own. I don't want to stop unitil I'm forced to. And I will wait, as always, to be invited to groups. I will not hit the join button until someone "wants" me to. That's the number one rule.