I find it strange that some stories here (including my own) that venture into unfaithful wives seem to attract vitriol and condemnation from some readers! Why do they read these sites if they find them offensive? Im thick skinned enough to accept that others may not share my sense of fiction (and lets remember thats what it is!) anyone else had this experience?
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Quillman said:
Well said!
Yep, I've had experience of the same kind of spiteful shite. As you quite rightly said, why do they read them?
Maybe they think "Loving Wives" does exactly what it says on the tin, but, surely, they get the gist of the category as soon as they start reading stories within it. Also, it's often the same people over and over again who target stories within that category for their feedback.
It's fiction!!! (Mostly
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Sorry. Whatever you write is likely to offend someone who doesn't understand that fiction and fantasy are NOT REAL.
We have frequent threads about the stupidity of anonymous feedback and the abuse we can get for no apparent reason.
Join the club of abused authors. There are many good people in it including most of the writers of classic literature. Even Shakespeare had bad reviews.
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We have frequent threads about the stupidity of anonymous feedback and the abuse we can get for no apparent reason.
Join the club of abused authors. There are many good people in it including most of the writers of classic literature. Even Shakespeare had bad reviews.
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Re: Re: loving wives
When I first saw the category, I said something like, "That's nice. A category about loving wives," and I wrote a story about a loving husband and wife. I actually got positive PC's on the story from readers who were pleasantly surprised. Since then, I have written another story about a wife who is cheating on her husband who is also cheating and moved the first story to First Time, where it belongs.
Tatelou said:Well said!
Yep, I've had experience of the same kind of spiteful shite. As you quite rightly said, why do they read them?
Maybe they think "Loving Wives" does exactly what it says on the tin, but, surely, they get the gist of the category as soon as they start reading stories within it. Also, it's often the same people over and over again who target stories within that category for their feedback.
It's fiction!!! (Mostly
Lou
When I first saw the category, I said something like, "That's nice. A category about loving wives," and I wrote a story about a loving husband and wife. I actually got positive PC's on the story from readers who were pleasantly surprised. Since then, I have written another story about a wife who is cheating on her husband who is also cheating and moved the first story to First Time, where it belongs.
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Quillman -welcome to the club love
We can't please everyone so mostly its best we just please ourselves!!!
We can't please everyone so mostly its best we just please ourselves!!!
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Quillman said:
It's not just the Loving Wives category that attracts a certain type of critic. I wrote a story involving wife swapping in the Group Sex category and got really slammed for "the same activity that broke up my parent's marriage." Learn to live with it.
JMHO.
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I can almost understand comments like that in "Loving Wives" but I wrote one under "Group Sex" and got a scathing public comment about why I was married.
Wellllll this is fiction. But why would someone so offended by "cheating wives" think that group sex involved monogomy?
I was kinda wondering if this guy thought group sex meant having a pair of blow up dolls?
I could errase that comment but I left it just because I thought he looked dumber leaving it than I did for having written the story in the first place.
Wellllll this is fiction. But why would someone so offended by "cheating wives" think that group sex involved monogomy?
I was kinda wondering if this guy thought group sex meant having a pair of blow up dolls?
I could errase that comment but I left it just because I thought he looked dumber leaving it than I did for having written the story in the first place.
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I was going to use Shakespear as an example, Og beat me to it.
I read King Richard the Third- I hated it, mainly because I didn't get it until a friend explained it to me.
Did that stop me from reading his other works- No not at all!
Others should take the same attitude, just because you write one story doesnt make you a bad writer, just the wrong topic for the reader.
Okay so Im babbling!
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I read King Richard the Third- I hated it, mainly because I didn't get it until a friend explained it to me.
Did that stop me from reading his other works- No not at all!
Others should take the same attitude, just because you write one story doesnt make you a bad writer, just the wrong topic for the reader.
Okay so Im babbling!
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Sensual
The point of writing is to communicate with your audience.
In what way have we, as writers, failed when someone who is offended by what we write (and therefore NOT part of our intended audience) intentionally ventures into our domain in order to chastise us and perhaps steer us back to the path of proper morality?
I postulate that we should view these left field comments as signs of success rather than failure and certainly we should not take them personally. We have stirred a purient spirit to the point that he/she has left us a scathing comment. That means that we have reached them, that we are a danger to their way of thinking.
I also chose to believe that the reason they have left us a bomb in our mail, is that we have caused a sexual reaction in THEM and they are angry more at themselves than at us for having been stirred. I take that as the supreme compliment. I have stirred the unstirrable and they are angry at MY SUCCESS.
Dreampilot
The point of writing is to communicate with your audience.
In what way have we, as writers, failed when someone who is offended by what we write (and therefore NOT part of our intended audience) intentionally ventures into our domain in order to chastise us and perhaps steer us back to the path of proper morality?
I postulate that we should view these left field comments as signs of success rather than failure and certainly we should not take them personally. We have stirred a purient spirit to the point that he/she has left us a scathing comment. That means that we have reached them, that we are a danger to their way of thinking.
I also chose to believe that the reason they have left us a bomb in our mail, is that we have caused a sexual reaction in THEM and they are angry more at themselves than at us for having been stirred. I take that as the supreme compliment. I have stirred the unstirrable and they are angry at MY SUCCESS.
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I guess my point was.... If I go in to a book store and pick a book that I think I would like - Romances mostly, and it turned out to have little romance in it, I wouldnt write the author and say, you bleepity bleepity bleep , how dare you!
If I picked up a book that I didnt think Id like and ended up liking it, I just may pick up more by the same author.
For those who read, knowing what we write is usually smut and are offended, its their own fault. You can close the screen , you can change sites, etc. No one forced them, and therefore they shouldnt find fault it what we do- They chose to read it- we didnt send it to them.
Cealy
PS- the objective is to write for AN audience, someone out there will read what ever you write. Liking it or not!
If I picked up a book that I didnt think Id like and ended up liking it, I just may pick up more by the same author.
For those who read, knowing what we write is usually smut and are offended, its their own fault. You can close the screen , you can change sites, etc. No one forced them, and therefore they shouldnt find fault it what we do- They chose to read it- we didnt send it to them.
Cealy
PS- the objective is to write for AN audience, someone out there will read what ever you write. Liking it or not!
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