EmilyMiller
Story marketing slut
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I stand by my opinion.Your contention is the most popular authors on Lit don't care about writing and aren't any good anyway? You sure you don't want to put that in the controversial opinion thread?
No, people want to be protected from other people abusing the system.So, people want to be "protected" from a system that lets people vote the way they want?
I stand by my opinion.
No, people want to be protected from other people abusing the system.
Stop trying to argue that bombing doesn't exist. Legit votes happen, but so does bombing. If you've never experienced it, lucky you, but almost everybody else has. And acting all wide-eyed and innocent makes you come across like a troll, or a bomb apologist.

Bomb apologist it is then.Ahh, yes, disagreeing with you is "being a troll". Get over that nonsense, people are allowed to have different opinions. It was totally fine to disagree with @AwkwardlySet when he raised concerns, but now disagreeing is being a troll?
Then again, my whole ego and sense of self-worth isn't tied up in a random voting system on a porn site. So there's that.
Bomb apologist it is then.
Bomb apologist it is then.
In the same sense that a person who thinks Flat Earthers are idiots is a "round earth apologist" I suppose.
Just what I'd expect a Roundie to say
FTFYWhat can I say, NASA paid me off to spread their lies.
I do agree that the quality is pretty low. But a lot of the Lit stories are pretty low, too, wouldn't you agree? Just scrolling through the stories, not pursuing stories of people we know on AH.No, it's not a problem
It's more a generic observation that quite a lot of self-published work is pretty low quality - and it has a detrimental effect overall on how readers see self-published books.
LOL totally agree - but I'd expect a higher standard on Amazon for example. Expectations expectations - made to be dashed LOLI do agree that the quality is pretty low. But a lot of the Lit stories are pretty low, too, wouldn't you agree? Just scrolling through the stories, not pursuing stories of people we know on AH.
LOL totally agree - but I'd expect a higher standard on Amazon for example. Expectations expectations - made to be dashed LOL
I think you mean this as a 'they, that one author' and not as a 'they, popular authors,' which I think some people took it as.I did some editing for one of Lit's more popular authors, and my takeaway was that they don't care about writing. They have an idea, they churn it out and bask in the adoration of their fans. The version sent to me for editing was extremely badly written, full of mistakes and inconsistencies and completely lacking in many of the techniques that lift a story from "here's a series of things that happened" to "a properly crafted story that people will remember".
Monetization of hobbies is the death of joyI think you mean this as a 'they, that one author' and not as a 'they, popular authors,' which I think some people took it as.
I don't know who you mean, but I can think of one quite popular author whose writing has regressed a good bit over the course of their time here. I think that regression coincides with moving to crowdfunding and feeling as though they have to fulfill a content pipeline for their supporters. Every few weeks new content must be delivered, so every few weeks there's a new set of physical attributes attached to a name picked from the 2006 Top 50 Girl Names (USA) list, one page of setup and three pages of oral into vaginal into anal into oral into vaginal, followed by two sentences of 'gosh, I wonder what happens next.' It's kind of sad.
I might do the same if it meant a living wage, and they might have a large enough following to achieve that. Wish 'em the best of luck with it. More people like content than like writing, I think.Monetization of hobbies is the death of joy![]()