AMoveableBeast
Literotica Guru
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What is your favorite compliment you've ever received as a writer on this site? What is the best(worst) insult you've ever gotten?
Compliment: A reader recently compared my writing to David Foster Wallace, which was, simultaneously, the most generous and kind thing anyone has ever said about my ability, and the cruelest insult DFW has surely ever suffered. He has always been an idol of mine, and to even be mentioned in the same sentence--without prompting, no less--made me a bit giddy.
Dig: A few months ago, I received an email that said exactly this: "I recently read your Literotica submission in the non-consent category. I want to thank you. Many writers strive to affect the world in a positive way. You've actually done it. Now, thanks to you, women who suffer from unwanted pregnancy will no longer be forced to endure the horrors of painful medical procedures to terminate their condition. We can just read them passages from your story and the fetuses, desperate to avoid being born into a world that contains such awful writing, will abort themselves. You're a goddamned hero."
I laughed so hard at that email. It made my fucking day. I want to print it out and frame the bastard.
Compliment: A reader recently compared my writing to David Foster Wallace, which was, simultaneously, the most generous and kind thing anyone has ever said about my ability, and the cruelest insult DFW has surely ever suffered. He has always been an idol of mine, and to even be mentioned in the same sentence--without prompting, no less--made me a bit giddy.
Dig: A few months ago, I received an email that said exactly this: "I recently read your Literotica submission in the non-consent category. I want to thank you. Many writers strive to affect the world in a positive way. You've actually done it. Now, thanks to you, women who suffer from unwanted pregnancy will no longer be forced to endure the horrors of painful medical procedures to terminate their condition. We can just read them passages from your story and the fetuses, desperate to avoid being born into a world that contains such awful writing, will abort themselves. You're a goddamned hero."
I laughed so hard at that email. It made my fucking day. I want to print it out and frame the bastard.
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