I have a really hard time when I get comments like that. On the one hand, I want to just start gushing, because I tend to separate the story and characters from myself as actively writing it. And I just want to sit around and talk about world building and characterization and all sorts of things.
But on the other hand, it feels kind of...masturbatory? And if I begin to write a response I start to think about how I probably sound like a giant tool. So I sometimes instead pull back and just leave a generic thank you that hints at the questions the commenter brought up.
Re: World-Building
I have a really hard time when I get comments like that. On the one hand, I want to just start gushing, because I tend to separate the story and characters from myself as actively writing it. And I just want to sit around and talk about world building and characterization and all sorts of things.
But on the other hand, it feels kind of...masturbatory? And if I begin to write a response I start to think about how I probably sound like a giant tool. So I sometimes instead pull back and just leave a generic thank you that hints at the questions the commenter brought up.