Re: Thank you for your feedback

[Guest]

Re: Thank you for your feedback

Something not too humourous, but not too serious, I hope - for a change.

On this site, Literotica, authors donate their precious work for free. Therefore, I try as much as I could give back by making feedbacks when I'm compelled to do so.

I comment when I enjoyed reading a story.

I make negative-feedbacks when I see the point in doing so (I provide my e-mail address). I'm never an annonymous commenter who says something like "You suck!" (my time is more precious to me than to post such pointless e-mail).

My feedbacks are rarely replied to, and which is OK. Sometimes, authors respond marely to say their thanks and that is cool.

On a few occasions, my negative-feedback were replied by well-though opinions and I appriciate them immencely.

My point is this: I wish the authors who answer back to my negative (constructive) oppinion of their writings by not saying things like, "Geesh. Don't you know it's just a fantasy?"

Please do put your "fantasy" in Sci-fi/fantasy category, or humour/satyre category.

It is in my oppinion that the general public do not care for authors' "fantasy" in categories which is not to do with "fantasy".

Thank you for your attention.

 

[jeanne_d_artois]

Define your terms, please.

All fiction is in some sense a fantasy.

Fantasy as a sub-set of fiction assumes an alternative world where things can happen that are not possible in the present real-life world.

The overlap between fiction and fantasy is blurred but some comments seem to imply that an author is not entitled to use serendipity or to extend a situation beyond what might normally happen.

On Literotica, people make love far more frequently, much sooner after the first meeting, and usually perfectly. The whole site is for fantasy.

Jeanne

 

[Guest]

Re: Define your terms, please.

The whole site is for fantasy.

Jeanne

Eww.

One big giant wanking machine.

 

[cantdog]

just because it's fiction

People adjust their defensive excuses to suit the moment.

I conclude that you must have pointed out that something in their story made no sense.

Fiction, fantasy or not, ought to be about recognizable beings with recognizable motivation, whose actions provoke reasonable results from the universe, or you might as well have suck pixies come in at night and blow you. Perfectly.

Fiction ordinarily ought to have something to do, in fact, with the world of human experience, even if it seems to be about Flubzoids from the moons of Qakd.

Same for Thai food, but alas, not always.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Re: just because it's fiction

I conclude that you must have pointed out that something in their story made no sense.

Fiction, fantasy or not, ought to be about recognizable beings with recognizable motivation, whose actions provoke reasonable results from the universe, or you might as well have suck pixies come in at night and blow you. Perfectly.

Yeah. What cantdog's talking about it the idea of plausibility in a story. You can have your characters turn inside out and blow away if you do it in a way that's at least plausible. That's fantasy. Or you can have a woman go to bed with a man in such a way that the readers will say, "Well that's just bullshit. She would never do that!" Claiming that it's "fantasy" is no excuse. It's just crappy storytelling.

---dr.M.

 

[oggbashan]

Re: just because it's fiction

Fiction, fantasy or not, ought to be about recognizable beings with recognizable motivation, whose actions provoke reasonable results from the universe, or you might as well have suck pixies come in at night and blow you. Perfectly.

Now why didn't I think of that for a Nude Contest entry?

Og

 

[cloudy]

Write it anyway, Og...it'll be fun!

 

[oggbashan]

I've never met a suck pixie.

Brigit keeps visiting.

I should finish Brobdingnag before encountering pixies. Do you think a good single malt would enable me to see them?

They don't come when I take a bottle of wine from the cellar.

Og

 

[cloudy]

I've never met a suck pixie.

Brigit keeps visiting.

I should finish Brobdingnag before encountering pixies. Do you think a good single malt would enable me to see them?

They don't come when I take a bottle of wine from the cellar.

Og

I have it on good authority that they don't like wine. Suck pixie's prefer something stronger.

 

[oggbashan]

I have it on good authority that they don't like wine. Suck pixie's prefer something stronger.

That is a shame. Some of my wine costs far more than single malt.

My brother is waiting for his first great-grandchild before he opens his last bottle of Napoleon Cognac (That is cognac made during the reign of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte). His father in law gave them a dozen bottles as a wedding present 43 years ago.

I had 50 Cuban cigars as made for Winston Churchill - all gone now.

I do have some vintage champagne. 1957 I think is the earliest but I wouldn't waste that on pixies.

Og

 

[cloudy]

I know I'm about to venture into heresy here, but I've never been able to develop a taste for wine. I just don't get it, I guess. And, champagne is something I can live without, as well.

I do, however, like a good cold beer, and a shot of tequila will always be welcome.

Guess I'm just uncivilized.

 

[oggbashan]

I know I'm about to venture into heresy here, but I've never been able to develop a taste for wine. I just don't get it, I guess. And, champagne is something I can live without, as well.

I do, however, like a good cold beer, and a shot of tequila will always be welcome.

Guess I'm just uncivilized.

Not having a taste for wine does not make you uncivilised.

Some people can be very civilised and not take alcohol in any form for religious reasons.

I do not understand US beers. I have drunk Budweiser. I'd rather have Coca-Cola.

I like the products of my local brewery and visit it for a tour about once a year. The tour ends with a free pint of their beer. Some of their beers are best at cellar temperature; some ice-cold.

Og

 

[Guest]

You meet all sorts in khyber-space.

 

[Guest]

You meet all sorts in khyber-space.

Ceevy, I don't like it when you're cute. P.