Why I don't write anymore.

Mandy01

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Why I don't write anymore.

That statement isn't quite true. I do still write and on a fairly regular basis, just not here on Literotica , it's just on another site who takes responsibility for those readers who want to leave comments. There are no anonymous readers or comments. Everyone needs an email address so the author may, if they feel it necessary, communicate with their public. None of this hiding behind anonymous, the pricks who deal out rubbish because they themselves can't put two words together without using a four letter insult in between.

What I don't do anymore is post on Literotica. The reason is quite clear, until the anonymous hordes take responsibility , or more accurately, Literotica makes anonymous take responsibility for their comments, I refuse to be inundated and insulted by misspelt, uninformed, uneducated garbage a four year old would be embarrassed to put their name to.

Literotica is/was a good site. I still read here quite often. It seems now the anonymous hordes have corrupted the pleasure of others. We authors get no financial gain out of putting our work up for others to read apart from knowing the readership enjoy reading a good yarn. I have no problem with criticism! It is a necessary tool to improve the authors writing skills, I thank many of the readers here who have left comments on Literotica for their honest help in showing me where my work is falling down or could be improved. I also thank them for their encouragement to keep writing. They are my true heroes.

What I do not appreciate is the abuse and insults, the offensive and spiteful rhetoric of morons hiding like cockroaches' and vermin behind the nom de plume, or more accurately the alias of, anonymous since it is a false or assumed identity, cretins who find it difficult spelling their own name, let alone being able to put pen to paper and letting the world critique their work.

Until Literotica changes their format by removing the anonymous status and censures the idiots who have no reason for being on this site other than to disrupt it, then I'll not post another article here again.

Enough authors leave and Literotica goes down the gurgler like a lot of other literary sites and all because some people are too stupid to understand that it takes intestinal fortitude to lay yourself out there for the world to see. They have no idea how wonderful the written word can be, how much fun and enjoyment not to mention informative the experience can be.
I'm sure there are lots of readers who have exorcised their demons in a non physical or lethal way in just reading.

All the best to the genuine readers

Amanda Wilson aka Mandy01 .
 
You do know that you can turn off 'anonymous' comments, don't you?
 
I had no idea that cockroaches use nom de plumes. Thanks for the info!
 
Ogg, help me out. Is it nom de plumes or noms de plume.

I wouldn't want Mandy to think I was a non-exorcised anonymous cretin.
 
I am curious to read some of your stories, where do you post them now?
Please PM it to me if you prefer.
 
Ogg, help me out. Is it nom de plumes or noms de plume.

I wouldn't want Mandy to think I was a non-exorcised anonymous cretin.

Nom d'un nom!

Noms de plume, of course - pennames, not pensname.

Procul, o proculu este, profani!
 
I have no problem with criticism! It is a necessary tool to improve the authors writing skills, I thank many of the readers here who have left comments on Literotica for their honest help in showing me where my work is falling down or could be improved. I also thank them for their encouragement to keep writing. They are my true heroes.

What I do not appreciate is the abuse and insults, the offensive and spiteful rhetoric of morons hiding like cockroaches' and vermin behind the nom de plume, or more accurately the alias of, anonymous since it is a false or assumed identity, cretins who find it difficult spelling their own name, let alone being able to put pen to paper and letting the world critique their work.

Until Literotica changes their format by removing the anonymous status and censures the idiots who have no reason for being on this site other than to disrupt it, then I'll not post another article here again.

Enough authors leave and Literotica goes down the gurgler like a lot of other literary sites and all because some people are too stupid to understand that it takes intestinal fortitude to lay yourself out there for the world to see. They have no idea how wonderful the written word can be, how much fun and enjoyment not to mention informative the experience can be.
I'm sure there are lots of readers who have exorcised their demons in a non physical or lethal way in just reading.

All the best to the genuine readers

Amanda Wilson aka Mandy01 .

Dear Mandy,

Let's play a game of pretend. Let's pretend that all the morons, cockroaches and vermin who have riddled you with abuse, insults and spiteful rhetoric had actually signed their REAL names beneath the venom they had hurled your way.

What possible difference would that have made?

Would it have magically transformed their abuse into something less abusive? Would having the "class" to attach their names to their criticism of your work actually serve to mitigate the sting of their otherwise classless comments?

You are ALMOST correct that it takes intestinal fortitude to lay one's creative work out for all the world to see. In reality, fortitude is required when allowing your work to be judged rather than merely viewed, and it is needed most when that judgment is unfair rather than fair, scathing rather than complimentary, and anonymous rather than attributable to a real live accountable person.

Frankly, I'm not even certain YOU believe that last part to be true. So tell us, if your writing was unceremoniously panned in excruciating detail by a well-known and well-respected literary critic, would you want your readers to share in the knowledge of his or her identity or would you just as soon spare what little dignity you might have left from the sheer force of the critic's larger credibility?

Anonymous criticism affords you an advantage you appear to have overlooked. You can be fully dismissive of the critic's qualifications to judge you since he has obviously disarmed himself by failing to document whatever those qualifications might be.

Anonymous criticism ought to be the easiest to ignore, but your reaction to it here tells me that, whatever the technical merits of your writing, your skin is still not quite thick enough for prime time.

One thing I know for certain is that you have a very mistaken view of the "real" world as it compares to your apparent misjudgment of the internet as a cesspool of unrestrained and mindless harassment. If you are ever fortunate to become a famously successful writer, I think I can confidently predict that you will continue to receive your share (if not more) of anonymous hate mail.

The cockroaches will simply send it to you through your publisher rather than the internet. Of course, you can request that only notes of praise be forwarded your way, but you would only be fooling yourself that such an environment is radically different than the one you are writing in now.

Best of luck in your future pursuits,

Colonel Hogan
(Not my real name and rank, because it really does not matter)
 
Ah is this another hot house flower?

If this is your version of "omg, the bullies are all over and the website needs to change" speech it is really lame and you are no Anne Rice, of which I will never read again because of her lame ass crap as well.

Anything put out for public consumption is up for grabs, and no one has to compliment you.

Nor is a readers job to give you criticism, if you want that go to beta readers group. The end reader is not your editor.
 
Ah is this another hot house flower?

If this is your version of "omg, the bullies are all over and the website needs to change" speech it is really lame and you are no Anne Rice, of which I will never read again because of her lame ass crap as well.

Anything put out for public consumption is up for grabs, and no one has to compliment you.

Nor is a readers job to give you criticism, if you want that go to beta readers group. The end reader is not your editor.

http://laidoffdiaries.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/164637_536889613016964_2008044695_n1.jpg
 
eh. some of them were cute, but probably also very smelly if my own experience with punks is any guide.
 
eh. some of them were cute, but probably also very smelly if my own experience with punks is any guide.

Didn't they all live together in a commune in an old slaughterhouse or something? Or was that Throbbing Gristle? That can't be good, from an olfactory point of view.
 
Dear Mandy,

Let's play a game of pretend. Let's pretend that all the morons, cockroaches and vermin who have riddled you with abuse, insults and spiteful rhetoric had actually signed their REAL names beneath the venom they had hurled your way.

What possible difference would that have made?

Would it have magically transformed their abuse into something less abusive? Would having the "class" to attach their names to their criticism of your work actually serve to mitigate the sting of their otherwise classless comments?

You are ALMOST correct that it takes intestinal fortitude to lay one's creative work out for all the world to see. In reality, fortitude is required when allowing your work to be judged rather than merely viewed, and it is needed most when that judgment is unfair rather than fair, scathing rather than complimentary, and anonymous rather than attributable to a real live accountable person.

Frankly, I'm not even certain YOU believe that last part to be true. So tell us, if your writing was unceremoniously panned in excruciating detail by a well-known and well-respected literary critic, would you want your readers to share in the knowledge of his or her identity or would you just as soon spare what little dignity you might have left from the sheer force of the critic's larger credibility?

Anonymous criticism affords you an advantage you appear to have overlooked. You can be fully dismissive of the critic's qualifications to judge you since he has obviously disarmed himself by failing to document whatever those qualifications might be.

Anonymous criticism ought to be the easiest to ignore, but your reaction to it here tells me that, whatever the technical merits of your writing, your skin is still not quite thick enough for prime time.

One thing I know for certain is that you have a very mistaken view of the "real" world as it compares to your apparent misjudgment of the internet as a cesspool of unrestrained and mindless harassment. If you are ever fortunate to become a famously successful writer, I think I can confidently predict that you will continue to receive your share (if not more) of anonymous hate mail.

The cockroaches will simply send it to you through your publisher rather than the internet. Of course, you can request that only notes of praise be forwarded your way, but you would only be fooling yourself that such an environment is radically different than the one you are writing in now.

Best of luck in your future pursuits,

Colonel Hogan
(Not my real name and rank, because it really does not matter)

this here above stuff should be thunk up to be the sticky...

i write here to exercise. but this wasn't about me.
the voices i have been free to explore here
are moulded by the anono-barrage...
and counter balanced by my convcictions...

what a luxury.

you are laser point on, colonel.

this joint is pen without the prettifying.

i'm not bestowing golden eggs here.
i'm working (out).

the post wasn"t about me, i forgot.
 
Didn't they all live together in a commune in an old slaughterhouse or something? Or was that Throbbing Gristle? That can't be good, from an olfactory point of view.

That was TG, but members of Crass now run an "organic" commune.

The Dutch documentary on them is quite hilarious. Seeing Penny Rimbaud's penis dangle while sitting on a bucket to shit on for their compost was quite amusing.
 
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