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[Everyday_Man]

Tigers ... you worry to much. ... Fuck the drama .. .respond, laugh, respond again, but don't take it to heart. You did the same thing with your editing ... you got told off once, you stopped editing ... (rejected editing my story) ... fuck it man, let this shit go.

 

[sr71plt]

The default is that your response to a feedback comment does not reveal your email. The author or whoever has to actively enter an email if they wish to be contacted directly, as opposed to through the "feedback" feature.

I think this has just been exampled to me by an anonymous e-mailer who showed me how it could work and than added a rather idiotic "if you've never received a message like this your stories must really suck."

Well, since this is about an author anonymously sending an e-mail to a commenter, then, no, I've never done that and it doesn't have a damn thing to do with how good my stories are anyway. (Thanks for the example of how it's done, though, Hatecraft and friends).

 

[sr71plt]

IHe appears to be writing for his own pleasure, therefore why submit stories at all.

Here you go still not understanding that it's a false assumption of yours that the reason everyone posts stories to Literotica is to further their writing development.

I think I'll go vote 5 to some of standstone's stories to balance off a bit your pigheadedness on this issue.

 

[49greg]

I've been where the OP is. Made my critique publicly and via feedback emails. Then I started writing my own. Cheese and Rice but it is hard for me to spot my own mistakes. And no I don't have an editor, and I probably never will. I'm just not that serious about it. It's fun, call it a casual hobby, or therapy, or whatever. Like most authors here I'm strictly amateur and my stories show it.

I assume the OP hasn't posted stories here himself. Perhaps he's a famous novelist or a frustrated English teacher. Perhaps he's even perfect.

My suggestion is that he write and edit a dozen of his own stories. Perhaps then there'll finally be a perfect story for him to read, and remember it is a FREE site.

So, if you ever read mine, thanks for the critique, but I assure you that I have been aware of the less than perfect nature of my writing for some time, and my many errors have been pointed out before.

And for the record, I do have a dictionary sitting beside me, next to my ink well, in easy reach as I dip my pen for each sentence as I put my words onto parchment by the light of a single candle, slowly destroying my eyes for the sake of my art.

 

[slyc_willie]

Just wanted to single this out:

He appears to be writing for his own pleasure, therefore why submit stories at all.

This really made me laugh.

Again, I have to say, as I did in another thread, that you appear to have no idea why an author writes.

Prepare yourself for a shock, because many of us, myself included, don't write to please the masses. We write because we want to, post them here pretty much for the hell of it, and understand that not every story is going to garner the gushy Fifty Shades of BS response.

When a good writer becomes popular, it's by circumstance, not design.

 

[Darkniciad]

I do both.

The stories I write as RR are primarily aimed at maximum readership. They're still ideas that tickle me, or I wouldn't write them at all, but there's a formula involved. If something goes too far outside the box, it gets reassigned to LesLumens.

Les has always been a mix. He's where everything that doesn't fit the mission of my other two pen names ends up, plus a few arbitrarily assigned stories that could have fit as RR strokers, like Mom/Son stories. I decided Les gets those for no particular reason. Sometimes if the plot of something fizzles on me, but there's still some hot sex and enough depth to the characters, I'll strip out the troublesome plot elements and hand it over to RR. Every so often, an idea I have for Les gets invaded by one or more of my old D&D characters. If that happens, it goes to Dark.

Pretty much everything in this name is written for me first and foremost. They're about letting my old PnP characters come out and play, to satisfy the itch I can't scratch with dice in my hand nowadays. An idea conceived as a Dark story is always so tightly woven with my world and characters that there's no migration potential.