Monday, February 11, 2013
Finally got Chapter 22, "The Hunted" done and published on fanstory.com. I've gotten decent reviews on it. Mostly five stars and one four star rating so far. I don't mind getting three or four stars in the reviews because then I know that I am making true and real progress towards getting to be a better, stronger writer. The five star reviews, while nice, I tend to ignore mostly because they are almost always along the lines of "Well written piece." or "This has a smooth flow of words, well done!" and blah, blah, blah. Basically they tell me nothing. I want to know what, if anything, I may or may not be doing wrong and why. I don't need to hear that people liked it and that is all they are going to say. I want to know what they liked and why and what they didn't like so much and why. While I'll not waste my breath nor my time defending my work to anyone for any reason whatsoever, it is still helpful to receive a rather scathing review here and there so long as it is not an attack upon me, personally. Attack and criticize my work all you want. That doesn't bother me...much. But start calling me an "idiot", "moron", "fool" or saying that no one is going to want to read this trash and you'll royally piss me off and get a decent tongue lashing of your own. I mean let's face it, assigning five stars to someone's work that hasn't earn them doesn't help that person become better than what they currently are. All it does is make them expect to see five stars every time they publish something and they get let down when they don't see them. I prefer to assign three or four stars to my work and let the world decide if I have truly earned the fifth and the highly coveted sixth star (or higher) from either fanstory.com or anywhere else for that matter. So, please, get as nasty and cruel as you want. I dare you. Just don't make it personal because if you do, I'll make sure you know the error of your ways with my dulled serrated razor of a tongue that I have and no, I don't have that little thin in my head that tells me when to keep my mouth shut. That's for so-called "normies" and I am far from. Until the sun sets...
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