In the last iteration of travelr712, I wrote from a somewhat 'different' perspective. I didn't have many subscribers, I didn't have many friends, but those things were not my goal back then. Another thing I missed was private messages. In the four months that I was here, I may have gotten three or four a week, and mostly from just one person.
This time, I'm trying to be kinder, more open, perhaps more accepting? And after the first two weeks, I realized, I still wasn't getting pm's. But then something occured to me. I wasn't writing any either. So I started picking people who's writing I liked and subscribed to them, and I started sending them pm's. I'm making more friends. That is my goal here now, and i'm liking it. And I'm also getting pm's from several people every day. Thank you for those who have kindly returned mine, it means allot to me that you think of me during the day, enough to send me a personal message.
So, rule #1, at least for me, is:
You gotta write em to get em.
What are the other rules that you have regarding pm's? What are your guidelines? How do you determine who and when to send them?
Any and all answers are welcome.
