Hope you feel better...now that you have gotten some of that anger off your chest. It's really sad how hateful some people are toward others. If they could just 'get along with a little help from their friends' it would be so much better for all concerned. As to cutting down on bullying and hate...that just never seems to actually work. There always just seems to be someone with a 'bent' sense of anger and a desire to take it out on others for self-satisfaction. That's life.
The internet has really increased the bullying because its not face to face. Back in the day so to speak the bully would eventually say the wrong thing to the wrong person, get his ass beat and learn a lesson not its all spew no accountability. Half my guns were left to me by my godfather. I enjoy going to the range, but don't consider myself a gun yahoo, nor all kidding aside would I enjoy the thought of ever having to use one on a person. But I admit I wish I could see the look on the face of the moron threatening someone he thought was a woman with a gang rape and beating.
I doubt the anons who hate would have the mental capacity to understand satire.
I delete the hate comments straight away also.
A bit like what happens to the author in "Misery"
I saw your comment and while I've not yet read any of your stories, I'm glad you said something. I'm one of those readers who can tend to take a story seriously to the point of mild obsession, when it resonates with me a certain way. And at the risk of stating the obvious, it's the characters of course. As it happens, the three stories (from three different writers) I most wish would continue are all stalled and have been for some time now; I've no right to expect more and am grateful for what we've gotten, but I do find myself wondering at times if perhaps the blatantly unfair criticism each of them have endured at times has contributed to their reluctance to continue. (It's equally if not more likely that real life just gets in the way, I also realize that!) I'm sorry you've had to put up with this and I can guess it doesn't exactly lend itself to making you want to endure more ... I suppose if nothing else it's a lesson to readers like me to remember to take the time to comment when I do find a story that's special. Take care ...
I found out that liking a story so much can be a curse. I loved "The Island" so much that I wrote my own chapter to continue the story as the author had not posted anything in ten years. as I posted the chapter here in lit, unbeknown to me the author announced he was not dead but would not continue his story due to ill health. I did get a lot of negative comments from my chapter mixed in with a lot of very glowing ones. But chose to pull down my chapter forever, as it was definitely not worth the grief. People were attacking me for taking the story in a direction that had not seen the story going even though I saw that clearly in my head. I guess it's not my job to worry about how someone will feel about bits of my stories it's the audience's job to do that.
You can delete comments on your stories yourself. Pull the story up on the Work list on your author page, click on the comment you don't like and the trashcan and it's gone.
That was bad form for you to do. It's not your story to mess with. The criticism you got for adding material to someone else's story without their permission was justified.
In my defense, it had been ten years and his last comments on his page was about his ill health, so I thought, like everyone else, that he was passed on.
Doesn't really matter, unless his proprietary rights passed on to you.
Which is why I always place my stories in public domain. I'm not in it to make money, and as for fame, well, a handful of readers is nice though irrelevant. I write for my own enjoyment. I pass it on in hope the somewhat different style I employ will inspire others to come out of the literary closet and try their hand at the art of politically incorrect prose.
I do completely understand the impulse to do this; sometimes the desire to know what happens just gets the better of what would otherwise be common sense. In my case, the one story I'd most want to see continue happens to be written in the first person from what is obviously a very personal viewpoint, so there is really only one person who could ever actually write it ... the person who did. For the stories I'm that engaged with, writing my own continuation would be wholly unsatisfying anyway since the reason I love the stories so much is because I want to know how that author will end it, where it's really going to go.
