... who posts that they don't like serial stories, or don't like drabbles, or don't like stories with crossdressing or magic or bodysuits or superheroes or you don't like stories that have lots of keywords or not enough keywords -- there's such a simple solution I'm surprised no one has thought of it.
Don't read the stuff you don't like. It's all pretty well marked, really it is, so no surprises.
The constant bitching gets on my nerves.
Hugs,
Erin
Comments
But I don't like...
stories with text! I want more comics! :P
hmmmm, maybe I shouldn't poke the pears at feeding time...
hugs hon,
Diana
Sorry Erin.
I was merely expressing my opinion, not condemning drabbles. As for not reading what I don't like...I don't. I tried to keep it somewhat light, and even wrote the whole thing in exactly 100 words, but I guess some missed that little bit of humor.
You know I don't like confrontations or flame wars. I stay out of them religiously, and from the tone of most of the comments on my blog entry, most, if not all, got my point. Sorry if I caused you any stress or whatever.
Hugs.
Catherine Linda Michel
As a T-woman, I do have a Y chromosome... it's just in cursive, pink script.
Positive vs Negative
If you don't read them, why comment? Seriously.
People who don't like serials are constantly complaining, even in the comments attached to serials. They do read them, they do like them but they want to complain. I don't understand that. If you don't like serials, wait till it's finished to read it or don't complain that it's a serial.
Drabbles are even easier to avoid. Why complain? It's your opinion but what's the value on a negative opinion? Positive? Doesn't seem likely.
Crossdressing stories, magic stories, stories with sex, stories without sex, stories with sex between fill-in-the-blank, science fiction, stories with sad endings, stories with happy endings, nonsense stories -- everyday someone is complaining about something.
Positive comments are more valuable than negative ones:
Positive adds, negative subtracts. I'd like posters here to be encouraged to grow the site rather than shrink it.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
More stories written with hieroglyphs!
Or maybe Sumerian Cuneiform...
All these words around here are just annoying. I really dislike stories with words.
J
Erin has it right ...
do what they teach you in retail or other customer service jobs. Put a positive spin on it.
It is easy to say "I don't like *A*." But is can come off as hostile. One possible better way is, "I personally prefer *B*. If there was a way to make *A* more like *B*, it might improve *A*."
It need not be *PC*, that is going overboard, but try to find the positive wiitout forgetting the negative but in a non-conflitory way.
"I prefer longer stories over drables because I find I can't put myself into the story with a drabble like I can with a longer story. I find it harder to emphathize with the characters. Perhaps those who do drables could release them as a collection, possible of related ideas or that tell a particular story. It might make things more interesting for people like me."
See, a possitive spin.
But yeah, I understand Catherine. I like to dive into the story and ride along with the character. But a well writen drabble is like a good joke or saying, short and to the point.
Variety is the spice of life.
John in Wauwatosa
John in Wauwatosa
Or
I like drabbles but could they be posted in blocks with 5 or ten of them on the same page since there seems to be a lot of them kinda like a book of poetry only drabbles.They are short so it would save the time of going back and forth between the front page.Amy
I did that.
Just seemed tidier. Started out as a collection of I think 4, but then I even folded
the stand-alone ones into the collection after a few days on the front page,
which is why the comment stream below it looks so strange.
Slapped a title GHOST NAD & OTHER DRABBLES on it.
There's an as yet untitled volume II in the works currently spread out
in comments and such that I will post when I get enough SOLID ones.
They're not all worth the space...
~~hugs, Laika
What borders on pure insanity?
Canada and Mexico.
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Neat and tidy
and hilariously funny.Thanks for the link to them as there was a few I'd missed.Thanks for the sore gut from laughing at them Amy
For Everyone
I hate stories.
/s
Aardvark
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
Mahatma Gandhi
Apart from your own surely?
I feel exactly the same way!. A kindred spirit at last!
Oh the comments I could write if t'were but my own work. Witty, and amusing, and incisive, and sympathetic, and inclusive, and opening up new horizons to the dullard readers. And I do so owe it to them. Poor dears. To reveal the truth to them!
Now that would be something worthwhile.
But other people's stories?
Some I feel contempt for. They aren't at all my cup of tea.
And some, well perhaps many, do it better than I. And those I really hate!
There is no mileage in stories.
Apart from one's own of course. :)
If only others would see it the way I do.
Hugs,
Erin you forgot one
A commenter on a story I wrote last year after criticizing it for one reason or another, got down to what really bothered him.
'but didn't have the hot fucking action!'
or the 'I don't like stories without sex.
Just informing you in case you want to ammend the list. ;)
Cheers,
Danielle
Einstein described insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting the result to change. Was Albert a reader of TG fiction then?
Daniel, author of maid, whore, bimbo, and sissy free TG fiction since 2000
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.- Oscar Levant
I did include that one
And that review you got was exactly what I was thinking about when I put it on the list. :)
- Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.