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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:
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> > 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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