Ok... everyone... LISTEN/READ UP!
I just reread a few of my stories from the beginning, AND THEY ARE AS TERRIBLE AS S***.
I have a really blind eye when it comes to reading my own stories... until five months pass and over seven thousand people have seen my crappy writing.
I apologize for the lack of quality... but Y'ALL CAN HELP!
Any writers out there... I sense a couple virtual hands...You will probably be with me on this one...
PLEASE REVIEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!
AND WHEN YOU REVIEW... DON'T JUST SAY "GOOD!"
I mean, I appreciate every single compliment and they definitely boost my self-esteem, but they don't help me improve in the long run.
Don't you want better updates?
Now... lets talk about what not to do while writing a partially negative review...
"THAT IS NOT RIGHT" unless you put a "JK (Rowling)!" or ":)" after it.
But seriously... please don't just tell us writers that our stories stink or that you won't continue to read it if we don't update...
1) Not cool.
2) That makes no sense. If you are going to try to blackmail us into updating... don't do it by trying to convince us that you don't care enough about our stories to read the next updates that we do post.
CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM = An author's favorite type of review... most of the time... I like the ones with the "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! HOW CAN YOU DO THIS TO US!"
I mean, even if they point out EVERY SINGLE ITTY BITTY GRAMMAR DETAIL and you are complete Grammar Nazis... we will love you forever.
If you follow all my rules on this post... and society's basic ones... and they send you a response saying something like:
"WTF dude! Why you criticizing ma perfect story?" or
"(I**N**S**E**R**T C**U**R**S**E W**O**R**D**S H**E**R**E**)" or
"Mind your own business, no one asked your opinion... *********"
Then you have come across one of society's many idiots.
I will never do that to you. I solemnly swear that I am up to the good of constructive criticism.
Please review... I know it takes effort... but you don't have to do it after every chapter... just maybe once or twice... summing up all the mistakes...
Yes I feel you... you people who are like... "This requires extra typing and thinking"
THANK YOU!
Another thing I want to mention:
Please make an account. It doesn't require that much effort and it makes things SOOOOOOOO much easier to find again... and review on... and fav... and follow...
And it makes the authors' lives easier too.
I got a comment the other day...
The gist of it was...
"Awesome story! Thanks! Have some cookies... they're poisonous."
And I was like... WHAT! You like my story... but you want to poison me?
Ok... now that I type this it makes sense... sort of like VR... but at the time it didn't...
and REVIEWER ! Thanks for actually doing something besides "good"... even though it didn't really give me something to work on... It gave me something to ponder for a few days.
Point is... if it hadn't been a guest review, I could have replied and gotten clarification.
Thanks for reading this obnoxiously long AN...
Spring Break is next week (Notice the capitalization... I worship it) and that means... downtime... which means... FANFICTION! I will update and post new stories! YAY! (Some of you be like... "Oh joy. Another one I get to R&R."
CYA PEEPS! Thanks again!
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