Haven

by Zaerith Vrinn

First AVP fic.When Lex joined the Expedition to Antarctica, she never imagined the turns her life would take. From the pyramids of an isolated island at the top of the world to the furthest reaches of the galaxy, this is a story about life and the unexpected places it takes you, but in the end, you know you can always find your home. Complete LexScar

33. Dear Readers

Dear Readers

I really hate having to leave you notes when you're expecting chapters, but there is something I need to get off my chest that's been sort of bumming me out and preventing me from writing.

I don't mind people leaving suggestions in reviews. Normally I ignore them because there is no way I can fit them into the fic without going to far off course from my original plan, but sometimes there's a snippet of a suggestion that makes it into the fic, and that's why I usually let people leave suggestions.

But Lately I've been getting reviews from anonymous reviewers with big suggestions (Not necessarily bad suggestions, mind you, just big). Since the reviews are anonymous I can't tell them that, no, I can't use their suggestion and why, as I would with a signed review, and normally this wouldn't bother me except that these big suggestions have been left persistently, and recently I checked my inbox to find more anonymous reviews from different people, talking about these suggestions and encouraging me to use them.

This is where I draw the line people.

Haven is not being made up as I go, the only cases of that is the funeral scene for Dodge and Burn's grandfather which was a reflection of how I was feeling because my own grandfather had passed on at that time, and the hunting scene which I ended up regretting because it took too long.

I don't need suggestions for how this fic will continue, and encouraging me to write what someone else suggestion is annoying at best, and a bit hurtful. It's almost like saying you don't think I can keep up the good work I have been doing to write a satisfying ending to a fic I have been writing for almost two years now, and this lack of faith behind theses anonymous reviews is sort of upsetting me to the point where I can't work on the fic because I'm worried about my inbox getting spammed with people telling me what I should write next. That's not how this fic works. I wrote a review inspired fic called Down By The Bay for the Transformers fandom, and it has a sequel Three Times a Charm. If you want to leave reviews for story altering suggestions, go there. Haven is in a good place.

For everyone else who is happy with how I do things, I'm sorry I had to write this. I promise I will be back shortly with an actual chapter.

~Zaerith