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Re: Chapter 2, plus 2 MOCs, too
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Sun, 6 Apr 2003 06:42:32 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Matt Hein writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Anthony Sava writes:
> 
> > Thanks much!  I'm glad someone enjoyed it.
> 
> My apologies for the lack of posting this week...
> School, life and *gasp* reality caught up with
> me again...
> 
> I did take the extra few minutes to check out
> your additions, Anthony. As always, stellar
> job, and another presing reason for myself to
> stop procrastinating and take pictures of my
> chapters for once!

Thanks much!  I hope I don't finish my story before you finally get to yours! ;)

> > Thanks again.  Unfortunately, I am quickly becoming
> > discouraged with my story and in my website in
> > general.
> 
> I hope this isn't a harbinger for any rash
> actions to come...remember, every artist
> is going to have their set of critics...the
> best thing is to shrug off the illegitimate
> complaints and concentrate on positive
> suggestions...
> 
> Remember when I posted chapter four of
> Anachronistic Skies and got a whole
> lot of 'Err...that's not making any sense'
> questions...

Aye, I rememeber.  Don't worry about me, I'm not going to give up, not just yet
anyway.

> > Ever since my website was Slashdotted, I've
> > recieved countless emails, online messages
> > and website and 'blog' links that constantly
> > complain about my poor writing ability, poor
> > implimentation of my website and story, and
> > my blatent ripping off of The Lord of the Rings
> > Trilogy.
> 
> My advice would be to step back, take
> a deep breath and ignore any statements
> of malice...reading the comments about
> your story on slashdot, most of them seem
> to be written by 'anonymous cowards', and
> half of them having little or nothing to
> do with your story gives me the impression
> that the site has little credibility to
> start with.
> 
> To get some viable opinions, you might want
> to bring this to a writer's forum.
> I'm not an authority on writing either,
> and I bet a lot of my stories make little
> sense to the average person, so take my
> comments as you see fit. Hmm...but speaking
> of Tolkein, maybe your predicament is one
> of the reasons I have abstained from reading
> his works...I just don't want to risk it...

I've never thought about taking my story to a writer's forum.  Then again, if I
did, I'm afraid of what I might get back.  I just might get back the same
criticism with reasons to back up their dislike of it.  ;)  Then again...

> > I do try my best to not let these things get to
> > me, but there is only so many things that I can
> > read before I begin to wonder if they're seeing
> > something wrong with what I am doing that I do
> > not.  It also makes me wonder perhaps if I should
> > have stopped with just one story and moved on to
> > something else.
> 
> Hmm...well, I'm just going to propose a theory...
> maybe the geeks at slashdot have a different
> interpretation than most normal people would,
> that being of hatred towards anything they
> wouyld preceive to infringe on their interests.
> So someone has an imagination to write and
> they dont...it's part jealousy, part acrimony,
> and mostly immaturity. If they can't justify
> one good reason why they feel your work cannot
> perform up to par on writing or implementation,
> I would personally disregard their argument
> immediately.

I do my best to do just that, and it would be easy if it wasn't just people
from Slashdot.  But who knows, maybe it's not slashdot, maybe there's just a
type of people that slashdot just happens to cater to.

> > But don't worry though, I'll at least put all
> > I have into Chapter 3, and I will still try
> > my best to finish this story, just as I
> > finished the first.
> 
> That's the fighting spirit! Keep at it!
> 
> > Anyway, forgive my ramblings.  I guess
> > sometimes we all need to vent our frustrations
> > in public.
> 
> And I've done so, many times...
> 
> > And thanks for the feedback.
> 
> No problem...I just hope you
> found my comments (somewhat) useful.
> 
> <<_Matt Hein_>>
> Fellow lego enthusiast
> O s p r e y
> 
> http://www.lugnet.com/~1112/Creations

Lugnet's support of me has always made me feel better about situations like
these.  I'll do my best to keep my chin up.

And thanks for the feedback

--Anthony



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(...) My apologies for the lack of posting this week... School, life and *gasp* reality caught up with me again... I did take the extra few minutes to check out your additions, Anthony. As always, stellar job, and another presing reason for myself (...) (24 years ago, 30-Mar-03, to lugnet.castle)

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