Comments That Make Your Day

[Kumquatqueen]

On my story Making Lemonade, about a college reunion where a bunch of old friends try to find someone to provide FMC with rebound sex, and she and he decide to go along with it and catch up over a long chat (and sex) -

Lovely story. The dialog sounded exactly like old friends catching up.

Mission accomplished!

 

[intim8]

On my Aces story, @Djmac1031 drilled right to the core of what it is about:

"How does one go about finding love and true companionship in a world where sex has become a commodity?"

I always appreciate when someone really gets it.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I got a comment yesterday by email that was probably the most wonderful and humbling thing I have ever experienced in writing and getting up there IRL as well. It was private and I won’t even mention the story.

It wasn’t so much about my writing but about a positive IRL impact that it had had. This was in an area that means a lot to me personally and it was astounding that my meager words could do that. I don’t mean to be mysterious and sorry if my reticence to be more specific is annoying. But equally I wanted to share the feeling of both pride and humility it engendered me. I’ve never felt anything quite like it. It’s an overused word, but it was truly amazing.

And no, it wasn’t a “I’ve been through that sort of thing too” message, though those are also very moving.

Emily

 

[intim8]

t was astounding that my meager words could do that.

For all the complaints we make about commenters. one of the joys of writing publicly is those few random comments that don't just make your day, they make something meaningful.

 

[32aa]

I think that there are two types of comments that, 'Make my day'.

The first are the ones that tell you what a wonderful, well thought out, and easy to read story it was.

The second ones are where the story touched a nerve on a reader as they found that they could relate to something in their own lives.

Laura's Cardinal - Ch 02 had two such comments. One i posted earlier. Here's another.

by onetwentysix
on 01/10/2024

I lost my wife almost 7 years ago now and this story has renew my faith that I have another soul mate out there. I too have seen a Cardinal when I visit her grave. Funny coincidence is our boys school mascot is a Cardinal. Then you for a beautiful story. 5 stars!

 

[MrHereWriting]

An anonymous commentor called me a top Insect writer. (I believe he meant Incest.)

But, if he is looking for insects, I think he'll really want to read one of @ChloeTzang stories. Maybe I'll comment on his comment and let him know, just to be sure.

 

[dmallord]

'Justice for Alina' is the story of an ex-GI who drifts into Atlanta, Georgia, doing construction work and happens upon a poster of a missing girl. He is moved to do something about it. The story covers those salient points and the outcome. It's not a sex-filled story. It received this anonymous comment yesterday:

"I liked the story. It flowed pretty well. I would have loved to read a more detailed progress; however, you more than accomplished some fine storytelling. Thanks for sharing."

 

[kathyisgr65]

My world with u in it is a better place..

 

[ElectricBlue]

I got a comment yesterday by email that was probably the most wonderful and humbling thing I have ever experienced in writing and getting up there IRL as well. It was private and I won’t even mention the story.

It wasn’t so much about my writing but about a positive IRL impact that it had had. This was in an area that means a lot to me personally and it was astounding that my meager words could do that. I don’t mean to be mysterious and sorry if my reticence to be more specific is annoying. But equally I wanted to share the feeling of both pride and humility it engendered me. I’ve never felt anything quite like it. It’s an overused word, but it was truly amazing.

And no, it wasn’t a “I’ve been through that sort of thing too” message, though those are also very moving.

Emily

Erotica becoming meaningful, making a difference in someone's life, huh? Good for you, Em

 

[gordo12]

A comment posted yesterday on April Fool - No Longer

Nice job!

Short and sweet, it comes from my 750-word love affair. I really enjoyed writing short stories.

 

[NoTalentHack]

Okay, this is a weird one. I absolutely hate the channels on YouTube that steal stories from here, run them through a TTS program, and post them for ad revenue.

But.

One of them grabbed my story, Also-Ran, which is the story where halfway through I realized I was unintentionally writing the Jean/Scott/Logan love triangle from the X-Men and just decided



Some folks in LW got it, bless them. But the ones on the YouTube story? Oh, man.

Jean; red haired, green eyes, modelesque....Scott; tall, slender, athletic runner's build, brown hair... James; short, stocky, ruggedly handsome, unruly black hair, military... a daughter named Rachel who's a clone of her mom, and a brother Nate....It took me 15 minutes into just to realize we're sitting through somebody's X-Men Fanfic!

... I want to read the original now. It sounds better then many of the X-Men fanfiction out there

It was the "Rachel" and "Nate" that sold it for me! Jean is common; marrying a "Scott" could have been a coincidence... "James?" ok, know what....not everybody knows Logan is James, but fine........... but then with the descriptions i was like "Mofo", you think you SLICK?!?!?!?

What in the X-men 97 is this. I don't remember any of this on the comics. It took me to minutes for James and Scott to sink in. Even the damn it's. Disney is going to sue this writer.

I'm still gonna rain down hellfire on their channel, but that comments section is making me hesitate.

 

[intim8]

I'm still gonna rain down hellfire on their channel, but that comments section is making me hesitate.

Or respond to all the positive comments with a comment that directs them to where the story was stolen from.

 

[NoTalentHack]

Or respond to all the positive comments with a comment that directs them to where the story was stolen from.

No, I'd rather copyright strike the channel into the ground. The more of them I can do that to, the less profitable it becomes for them.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

From one of my personal favorites, The Letter. Glad anonymous liked it, too.

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This is the first story that I have read on this site that has ever resonated with me personally (and I have been visiting for over 20 years). I am a closeted CD who has gone through a lot of the struggles and thoughts that Michael went through in your story. It was always a lonely struggle for me but for the first time I feel SEEN. Everything I have felt feels validated because I finally realized its just not me going through this. It has positively uplifting these past few days since I first read the story and I come back to it at least once a day.


And to those who are in a similar situation, hopefully we can all find our Carla's eventually.

 

[ChloeTzang]

An anonymous commentor called me a top Insect writer. (I believe he meant Incest.)

But, if he is looking for insects, I think he'll really want to read one of @ChloeTzang stories. Maybe I'll comment on his comment and let him know, just to be sure.

Lol by all means point them to Buzzzzzzz lol

 

[NoTalentHack]

Sometimes it's not just the comment, but also who it's from. On Well-Intentioned, which went up this morning, I received the following from @qhml1, an absolute titan on the site and one of my personal favorite authors here.

One of the best written pieces I've ever read.

Short, sweet, to the point, and absolutely blew me away.

 

[joy_of_cooking]

@qhml1, an absolute titan on the site

Whoa, he has several times more red H's in LW than I have red H's! I should read some of his work.

 

[NoTalentHack]

Whoa, he has several times more red H's in LW than I have red H's! I should read some of his work.

Fantastic stuff. Highly recommend.

 

[gordo12]

Whoa, he has several times more red H's in LW than I have red H's! I should read some of his work.

It's a stream of red H's from top to bottom. I've never seen as many, especially in LW. I've read the stories and BTW there is a new one that just dropped yesterday.

 

[NoTalentHack]

It's a stream of red H's from top to bottom. I've never seen as many, especially in LW. I've read the stories and BTW there is a new one that just dropped yesterday.

Dude’s fantastic, like I said. Only a handful of those are anything close to a burn, either. It’s mostly nuanced, interesting takes on infidelity and what happens after.

 

[intim8]

"One of the best written pieces I've ever read"

Short, sweet, to the point, and absolutely blew me away.

They were right.

 

[lustychimera]

It's a stream of red H's from top to bottom. I've never seen as many, especially in LW. I've read the stories and BTW there is a new one that just dropped yesterday.

His prose is fucking gripping! I just tried one and damn. Definitely will be reading more.

 

[NoTalentHack]

They were right.

Thank you! That’s so kind, especially since I fucked up the verb tenses on the last half-dozen sentences!

 

[intim8]

especially since I fucked yo the verb tenses on the last half-dozen sentences!

Well, there were a lot of sentences, so your batting average was still pretty high. And there's a lot more to good writing than verb tenses. But that's why I put "nearly" in my comment there.

 

[Rob_Royale]

And then you have the commenters that think way to hard on a particular subject.

by Anonymous user on 16 hours ago
Great story, thanks for writing and sharing!
But that decision at the end is a really big gamble that I think will come back to bite them in the ass badly a couple years down the line. They talk about greed being human nature, but I think they forgot what a bunch of resentful and spiteful bastards we can be.
A lot of people will see "impervious to our weapons" and understand "we need bigger guns". And that whole "hostile native aliens killed our peaceful colonists" thing could easily kick off a vengeance mission with an AI controlled ship full of nukes, true to the motto "if I can't have this we will make sure you can't have it either".
Heck, the military complex would probably foot the entire bill for such a mission just to be able to put that "our guidance and delivery systems helped nuke hostile aliens X lightyears away from Earth" in their video ads and on their flyers. xD