Favorite negative feedback

[rgraham666]

My favorite was an e-mail comment I got. It was for the story Buzz Me, where the female protagonist's lover made her spend the day with a cell phone in her panties and he 'buzzed' her frequently during the day. Story's no longer on Lit.

Anyway, this woman lambasted me for ruining the woman's career since she got 'buzzed' giving a big presentation to her superiors.

Lady, it's fiction!

 

[jdnunyer]

Seriously. That's they're own damn fault for trying that during an important presentation!

 

[SamScribble]

Any of you who know my work may also know that I generally favour single quotation marks with double quotation marks for quotations within quotations. For example:

‘I’m not sure when he will be back,’ Louise said. ‘I think his exact words were “I’ll be back when I’m back – and not before”.’

Unfortunately, there is a least one critic, a Mr (or possibly Ms) Anonymous, who finds this totally unacceptable, and rarely misses a chance to offer me the benefit of his or her erudition. Here is one of his or her gems:

Your [sic] an idiot and you don’t know grammer [sic]. Don’t you know that not to use apostraphes [sic] for quotation marks. You story is shit and I didn’t even read it.

I hate to think how much worse the criticism might have been if he or she had read the story.

 

[kimbalee]

Now that just makes me cringe, not for the thoughts they attempted to convey so much as the manner in which they butchered it.






I really wanted to at least type "manor" instead of manner but I couldn't bring myself to do it. lol

 

[jdnunyer]

Unfortunately, there is a least one critic, a Mr (or possibly Ms) Anonymous, who finds this totally unacceptable, and rarely misses a chance to offer me the benefit of his or her erudition.

That's very helpful of you, dear reader. It had never occurred to me that some people might offset dialog differently. Because, you know, I never read any fiction before in my entire life where any of the characters spoke to one another. But now that you have enlightened me, I will sure change my evil ways.

 

[Firebrain]

I've never had any funny bad feedback. Just lame ("worthless drivel"), or (horror of horrors!) constructive. I feel left out, sob. I want a ranty, sweary email, lol.

 

[Stella_Omega]

Revalvers

Comments:

Revalvers do not have safies. If you are going to use wepons in your stores please know something about them so you do not look stuppid.

You learn something new every day! The next time I write about a revalver, I'll make sure to mention that it has no safie. And everyone will be SO impressed at my knowledge.

LOL I just read this to the local dude who says that actually, he thinks some Smith and Wessons might have a sliding safety. He suggests that I look it up on Google... But Google's results for re-valvers don't mention safies.

 

[DG Hear]

You learn something new every day! The next time I write about a revalver, I'll make sure to mention that it has no safie. And everyone will be SO impressed at my knowledge.

LOL I just read this to the local dude who says that actually, he thinks some Smith and Wessons might have a sliding safety. He suggests that I look it up on Google... But Google's results for re-valvers don't mention safies.

Made me laugh! Thank you Stella.
DG