The positive response to Karma Slave has made me so happy happy. There really isn't any feeling quite like knowing someone cares, in whatever degree. The support people give me for my work means more to me than I could ever hope to express in a coherent thought. In other words...
I LUV U
Don't think I haven't had my dissenters, though. Ooohh no. Why, this guy just told me that I suxx0red today (nevermind the fact that he seems to hate everything he reads and constantly posts inflammatory remarks wherever he happens to be on ff.net...).
That's just lame, though. A stupid remark made by an equally stupid person (or, someone who is certainly acting stupid). I have had several deep criticisms. The first was when I was just really getting into writing: I was twelve, and in my giddiness at finishing a story (a really awful, perfectly HORRIBLE story whose existence I am now ashamed of. Yes, it is on the Net somewhere. No, I will not tell you where), I uploaded it at this writers section in AOL. Now, back then, unlimited time for a set rate did not exist. You paid for every damn second you spent online. So the first note the guy who emailed me a scathing review of this story was about how people had to pay at the very least a penny to read this stuff, since it took a couple of minutes to download it onto their harddrives. I can't remember most of what he said, but the parts that actually meant anything were about not forcing your characters to serve the plot, and instead having the plot serve the characters. This advice is among the best I have ever gotten, even if the guy was a total ass throughout the rest of the message. He also gave me this wonderful quote from Robert A Heinlein, one of the sci-fi greats, about not really writing a story, but just putting a bunch of interesting people in a room together and seeing what happens.
The other time I was severely schooled was by my friend Amanda Flowers (the actual coiner of the term 'soulbond' that everyone likes to bandy about these days), after reading another story which I am now ashamed of (and which, thank God, is NOT anywhere on the Net). I actually can't remember much of that either, but the basic jist was that I putting in a lot of stuff that was really, really, really stupid. The story was random, and not in the hopefully cool and amusing way that Claris and many of my other work is now, but in a bad, brain-aching way. I've had other criticisms, but those two are the most poignant.
The point here is that I don't mind if you have less than glowing praise for my work. I will probably be upset over it for a while, yes, that is how I am. But then I will go back, and I will think about it, and I will absorb what I think is useful and discard the rest, and my life will continue. But saying that something just sucks is the most lame thing in the whole world.
Of course, this guy is also possibly bitter because I roasted him a la Court on the message board for being a disrespectful twit to a whole bunch of people and seemingly expecting praise for it. :\ I know that Jaimie-J knows who I'm talking about.
I LUV U
Don't think I haven't had my dissenters, though. Ooohh no. Why, this guy just told me that I suxx0red today (nevermind the fact that he seems to hate everything he reads and constantly posts inflammatory remarks wherever he happens to be on ff.net...).
That's just lame, though. A stupid remark made by an equally stupid person (or, someone who is certainly acting stupid). I have had several deep criticisms. The first was when I was just really getting into writing: I was twelve, and in my giddiness at finishing a story (a really awful, perfectly HORRIBLE story whose existence I am now ashamed of. Yes, it is on the Net somewhere. No, I will not tell you where), I uploaded it at this writers section in AOL. Now, back then, unlimited time for a set rate did not exist. You paid for every damn second you spent online. So the first note the guy who emailed me a scathing review of this story was about how people had to pay at the very least a penny to read this stuff, since it took a couple of minutes to download it onto their harddrives. I can't remember most of what he said, but the parts that actually meant anything were about not forcing your characters to serve the plot, and instead having the plot serve the characters. This advice is among the best I have ever gotten, even if the guy was a total ass throughout the rest of the message. He also gave me this wonderful quote from Robert A Heinlein, one of the sci-fi greats, about not really writing a story, but just putting a bunch of interesting people in a room together and seeing what happens.
The other time I was severely schooled was by my friend Amanda Flowers (the actual coiner of the term 'soulbond' that everyone likes to bandy about these days), after reading another story which I am now ashamed of (and which, thank God, is NOT anywhere on the Net). I actually can't remember much of that either, but the basic jist was that I putting in a lot of stuff that was really, really, really stupid. The story was random, and not in the hopefully cool and amusing way that Claris and many of my other work is now, but in a bad, brain-aching way. I've had other criticisms, but those two are the most poignant.
The point here is that I don't mind if you have less than glowing praise for my work. I will probably be upset over it for a while, yes, that is how I am. But then I will go back, and I will think about it, and I will absorb what I think is useful and discard the rest, and my life will continue. But saying that something just sucks is the most lame thing in the whole world.
Of course, this guy is also possibly bitter because I roasted him a la Court on the message board for being a disrespectful twit to a whole bunch of people and seemingly expecting praise for it. :\ I know that Jaimie-J knows who I'm talking about.
posted by lyn at
6/04/2001 08:40:00 PM
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