RedHunter2296
Competitive Professional In Being Ignored
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- Nov 20, 2020
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Hello everyone
I haven't commented here in a long time and I'm sorry that this is the topic I'm coming back with, but I can't take it anymore.
So here I go with a personal anger I have and want to get off my chest.
First of all, I know that this is not always the case and I really have very passionate readers and fans who really appreciate my work, I appreciate them a lot and it is for them that I think I keep writing for so long despite the difficulties along the way, but to see that something I do out of passion makes someone else happy is a really special feeling.
But in spite of that, and as strange as it may sound, I also want to talk about the fact that I am also fed up with the damned Ungrateful Audience that seems to accompany me in certain places.
It is not in this site, on the contrary in this place is the most pleasant where I have come to publish my story, this story comes from another site where there is no forum mainly and a place with two R's, so I come to get even a little here.
The first complaint is that it doesn't seem to matter how big my audience is, which I think is pretty big for a complete stranger on the Internet. It just looks like a ghost town in an abandoned city. Many visits, no likes, almost no comments, blah blah blah, the usual, in reality this is normal, even expected from the internet, where in the best case only 10% will actually do anything other than read the chapter and leave. What bothers me is when that damn 10% has nothing else to do but complain about absolutely everything. From understandable things like grammar or plot holes or theories (most of which are wrong, but fun to listen to), to real idiocies like complaining that I'm not publishing my novel in Portuguese or French? Or complaining about what is obviously a plot clue left on purpose, but taken as a lack of organization by the author, like: the villain didn't kill the protagonist when he could, what a stupid villain, only nobody saw the part where he put a tracker on him and then attacked his base of operations just two paragraphs later.
There are also the real variety of comments completely WTF awards. Comments about whether this novel has a leftist slant, because this story, based on the real world, says good things about this country and bad things about that country, because it is trendy on the Internet to shit on this country, so your novel should do the same.
Others complain that the novel is about what is written on the labels. The novel has Harem, Gender Bender, and Yuri ? hate those things, therefore bad review, one star, and I shit on you as an author for daring to try to talk about the topics that appear in the tags and the hypnosis. Yes, it's fashionable to complain about the harem, that's what makes you unique and different, in a world of sheep they are the only wolves. I just want my story to be about the things I like, that's all, that's why it's marked all over the place, so in theory it only attracts the readers who would like that topic, not the ones who hate it.
Personally, I hate soccer and I will never go to a soccer game just to say I hate the sport, that's stupid.
The next point is those who complain that there is not a new chapter every three days. I've met people who complain that a novel they read for free can't keep up with their favorite wuxia writer who is paid to write and has blocked 50 chapters before the free cut. I'm sorry, I'm just a human who writes in his free time whenever he feels like it, I've only managed to write 260 free chapters with an average of 3,000 words, I'm sorry if I'm not a robot capable of writing indefinitely all year long for your personal and free entertainment.
Speaking of free stuff and lack of support, why not combine the two to make it even worse? One of the few ideas I had was to compile my story into books and publish them on Amazon Kindle, which people may not believe, but it also takes work, editing the structure of each book, porting it, creating the cover, organizing it, and editing it, all without help from anyone of course. Putting it on sale and not selling shit doesn't matter to me because the real idea was just to have it in book format and have it printed for myself. While I'm at it, I'm going to give the four books away for free and even let my readers know about it, I'm sure I'll get a positive review since I appreciate it? well, the answer was no review at all, everyone took the books and left, ironically the only 2 reviews I got were from the few people who bought them.
And to tie it all up nicely, readers who complain even I try to create a good atmosphere for everyone. Sometimes I put notes from the author about things that are happening, the release of the books, informing that they are being given away, informing that my computer is damaged and the releases will be stopped until further notice, informing that I will be on vacation at a certain time, major corrections of a chapter. What I try to do is to let the readers know a little bit about what goes on behind the scenes, to let them see that there is no machine that uses ChatGPT to write, because some things are written in a certain way. All of this ends with comments from readers complaining that the author is interrupting too much with his author's notes and should not publish them at all.
It's like, dude, if you're so mad about me commenting on my story, I might as well not publish anything at all, including the novel. Seriously, sometimes people like that make me want to give it all up and that's it, just write for myself and never put it on the internet if it's just going to make people mad anyway.
Again, I know that not all cases are like this, I know that there are people who are really interested in my story and they love it. But it's hard to go on when the majority are the ones complaining and the ones who like it never speak up, it just leaves the impression that everything I do is somehow wrong all the time.
I know a lot of people like my novels, maybe even the majority, but if they don't get noticed, and the review section is only filled with people who only got to chapter 10 to complain that they can't stand my story, and no one who's read the whole thing over the years ever says anything even though they enjoy it, it just gives the impression that this or that novel is a waste of time for readers and the author.
Well, I guess that's it for my TED Talk on the rising price of synthetic milk, I won't bother you with my anger anymore, you can go now.
I haven't commented here in a long time and I'm sorry that this is the topic I'm coming back with, but I can't take it anymore.
So here I go with a personal anger I have and want to get off my chest.
First of all, I know that this is not always the case and I really have very passionate readers and fans who really appreciate my work, I appreciate them a lot and it is for them that I think I keep writing for so long despite the difficulties along the way, but to see that something I do out of passion makes someone else happy is a really special feeling.
But in spite of that, and as strange as it may sound, I also want to talk about the fact that I am also fed up with the damned Ungrateful Audience that seems to accompany me in certain places.
It is not in this site, on the contrary in this place is the most pleasant where I have come to publish my story, this story comes from another site where there is no forum mainly and a place with two R's, so I come to get even a little here.
The first complaint is that it doesn't seem to matter how big my audience is, which I think is pretty big for a complete stranger on the Internet. It just looks like a ghost town in an abandoned city. Many visits, no likes, almost no comments, blah blah blah, the usual, in reality this is normal, even expected from the internet, where in the best case only 10% will actually do anything other than read the chapter and leave. What bothers me is when that damn 10% has nothing else to do but complain about absolutely everything. From understandable things like grammar or plot holes or theories (most of which are wrong, but fun to listen to), to real idiocies like complaining that I'm not publishing my novel in Portuguese or French? Or complaining about what is obviously a plot clue left on purpose, but taken as a lack of organization by the author, like: the villain didn't kill the protagonist when he could, what a stupid villain, only nobody saw the part where he put a tracker on him and then attacked his base of operations just two paragraphs later.
There are also the real variety of comments completely WTF awards. Comments about whether this novel has a leftist slant, because this story, based on the real world, says good things about this country and bad things about that country, because it is trendy on the Internet to shit on this country, so your novel should do the same.
Others complain that the novel is about what is written on the labels. The novel has Harem, Gender Bender, and Yuri ? hate those things, therefore bad review, one star, and I shit on you as an author for daring to try to talk about the topics that appear in the tags and the hypnosis. Yes, it's fashionable to complain about the harem, that's what makes you unique and different, in a world of sheep they are the only wolves. I just want my story to be about the things I like, that's all, that's why it's marked all over the place, so in theory it only attracts the readers who would like that topic, not the ones who hate it.
Personally, I hate soccer and I will never go to a soccer game just to say I hate the sport, that's stupid.
The next point is those who complain that there is not a new chapter every three days. I've met people who complain that a novel they read for free can't keep up with their favorite wuxia writer who is paid to write and has blocked 50 chapters before the free cut. I'm sorry, I'm just a human who writes in his free time whenever he feels like it, I've only managed to write 260 free chapters with an average of 3,000 words, I'm sorry if I'm not a robot capable of writing indefinitely all year long for your personal and free entertainment.
Speaking of free stuff and lack of support, why not combine the two to make it even worse? One of the few ideas I had was to compile my story into books and publish them on Amazon Kindle, which people may not believe, but it also takes work, editing the structure of each book, porting it, creating the cover, organizing it, and editing it, all without help from anyone of course. Putting it on sale and not selling shit doesn't matter to me because the real idea was just to have it in book format and have it printed for myself. While I'm at it, I'm going to give the four books away for free and even let my readers know about it, I'm sure I'll get a positive review since I appreciate it? well, the answer was no review at all, everyone took the books and left, ironically the only 2 reviews I got were from the few people who bought them.
And to tie it all up nicely, readers who complain even I try to create a good atmosphere for everyone. Sometimes I put notes from the author about things that are happening, the release of the books, informing that they are being given away, informing that my computer is damaged and the releases will be stopped until further notice, informing that I will be on vacation at a certain time, major corrections of a chapter. What I try to do is to let the readers know a little bit about what goes on behind the scenes, to let them see that there is no machine that uses ChatGPT to write, because some things are written in a certain way. All of this ends with comments from readers complaining that the author is interrupting too much with his author's notes and should not publish them at all.
It's like, dude, if you're so mad about me commenting on my story, I might as well not publish anything at all, including the novel. Seriously, sometimes people like that make me want to give it all up and that's it, just write for myself and never put it on the internet if it's just going to make people mad anyway.
Again, I know that not all cases are like this, I know that there are people who are really interested in my story and they love it. But it's hard to go on when the majority are the ones complaining and the ones who like it never speak up, it just leaves the impression that everything I do is somehow wrong all the time.
I know a lot of people like my novels, maybe even the majority, but if they don't get noticed, and the review section is only filled with people who only got to chapter 10 to complain that they can't stand my story, and no one who's read the whole thing over the years ever says anything even though they enjoy it, it just gives the impression that this or that novel is a waste of time for readers and the author.
Well, I guess that's it for my TED Talk on the rising price of synthetic milk, I won't bother you with my anger anymore, you can go now.
and those same people will complain if you spell it out and lampshade it with the power of the sun, saying they can read between the lines.
