Interesting because I wonder if what I’ve done is anything similar.
Here’s the rundown:
I have two accounts on deviantArt, one for fanfiction and one for original fiction.
The fanfiction sees more work from me (for copyright reason–not the “is someone going to steal my work” paranoia, but simply that many magazines won’t buy a story that’s been “published).
The fanfiction account, logically enough, receives more traffic, watches, and faves than the original fiction account.

Now my question is this:
Is there anything wrong with asking people who have faved my fanfiction to also give my original fiction a look? (I’ve received a few watchers and faves on the second account after making this request.)
I usually only do that with people who “watch” my account, though I’ve considered doing it on specific chapters, as well.

As for your topic about motives:
I would always like to think my primary “motive” is to tell a story. But no matter what, I benefit from the traffic, and I do need that traffic.
I’m not sure it’s possible to “not think about the sales,” but I would certainly try to focus on the story.

Check out #MyWANA. This is where the cool kids gather. Well, if you think reading, D&D, and World of Warcraft are cool. Okay, none of us are cool, but we are cool with that…which makes us cool? I think I just lost myself. Just come hang 😀

On blogs my intention is not to sell books and I rarely mention my work – perhaps I should, but it doesn’t look to me as if this approach is working. However I’m not going to evaluate it in terms of book sales anymore, I’m just going to blog because I like it.

I really hope my agent finds a trad publisher for my novel so I don’t have to rely totally on my own efforts to get sales for that, because apparently I suck at it.

Love, love, love this quote. Thanks for another great post, Kristen!