LaRascasse
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Just picked up a comment, don't know if I should take it as a good sign.
Is this a compliment?
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JAMESBJOHNSON
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I strive to find all the ways there are to compel readers to feel strongly, its what reading is all about. I usta piss people off beyond belief when I worked with suicides over the phone. I made them wanna kill me first. So I say your feedback is a compliment.
SecondCircle
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What was the story content? Like is that what you were going for? If so you could take that as you delivered successfully.
horrorotica
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How about a link to the story. How do you expect us to put the comment in its proper context without knowing what the story is. Sheesh!
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You call the suicide hotline and JBJ answers. Sounds like the makings of a horror story!
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You call the suicide hotline and JBJ answers. Sounds like the makings of a horror story!
Sounds more like an SNL skit to me
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You call the suicide hotline and JBJ answers. Sounds like the makings of a horror story!
I'm crazy as a fox.
lovecraft68
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My question is why did they read it? Unless you somehow made it a "normal" story until the very end then why stick with it?
I guess its a compliment if you're still pushing the boundaries of "look how dark I am" and its a reader not used to it.
To me your darkness is looking contrived these days, rather than seeming "heartfelt"
Going to sound like a jerk here(and I know not for the first time) but I get a kick out of you and another author Cruel2bekind. Two college age kids with healthy upbringings trying so hard to be dark and edgy as if trying to say "look I can write what all those screwed up Broken people can write"
To someone unaccustomed to that material, I'm sure they walk away thinking "Dark Soul"
To others, it becomes an eye roll
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lovecraft68
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Could be a good one. JB starts talking the person through by making comparison's to all the books he's read.
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It aint SNL when the caller is wasted and has a loaded pistol OR the caller lets you know he took a bottle of pills and you cant trace his call. Man! They usta come in all the time with hand grenades and little pistols. Every shift I had a violent drunk I hadda take down and restrain, cuz they like to threaten nurses.
LaRascasse
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You wouldn't say that shit if you had any real balls and hadda do it. Candyass poser.
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Where'd braveheart bear go?
SecondCircle
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Unsure of the relevance here.
lovecraft68
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The thread is a fishing expedition and I didn't feel like nibbling.
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Ah.
As for the OP, looking at the story I think the comment is just what it is. Some people liked what you did, I think this one didn't. As I said, I think you might "take" this as a compliment, but like pilot said, I don't think it was "meant" that way.
In some way, you must have succeeded I suppose. I mean, something pulled them in enough and held their attention long enough to read it. That or they hit a point they thought was so repulsive to them they stopped and just had to tell you about it.
In any case, there's the short of it. It's just another one of those comment things.
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People in general, but readers in particular are filled with hope and faith and optimism. They tend to believe that no matter how grim a story, if they keep going there will be a turn-around, a comeuppance, justice or a miracle. A reward for their courage in reading through this story of suffering and stuff.
I mean one of the most popular stories of all—that of Jesus—is awfully grim isn't it? Why keep reading it? Well, because in the end it turns out that he comes back from his horrible death more powerful than ever. The story rewards the reader with an amazingly upbeat conclusion.
That's why most readers will stick with stories they don't like; they're waiting for that turnaround they're sure will appear in the next paragraph and make the story worth it.
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I sometimes end up accidentally reading stories that make me feel ill; usually the story synopsis really hooks me in with the concept (sff worldbuilding or other tropes I'm fond of), or sometimes I really like the main character's voice and the problem they have is really interesting. But I assume stories are going to end happily (if they end at all), and I tend to underestimate the amount of angst a writer would put into a story (because just whyyy, I would never want to torture my characters like that
). It's obviously a mistaken assumption that if something would make me feel dirty to write it, other writers would feel the same way. But once I'm bought-in to the character's emotions, motives, and problems, I usually can't make myself quit reading even if I know I'm just going to feel worse the more I read. :/Similar threads
