"Unfinished" conversations annoy me beyond any limits. I know it's stupid, but I can't help myself... So, I'm going to go back to the earlier conversation, but not for long, I promise. Please forgive me!
Actually, no, what I've been saying for the past several posts was that if you had something to say, you say it to the right audience, period. For the most part, I'm saying you do this in reviews first and build up the credentials that don't make people want to blow you off if you try to do a guide. (As in, if people don't know you, and you go to write a guide, people may initially wonder if you know what you're talking about.)
I just want to know I got this right. So, essentially, what you've been saying for a while now is that people shouldn't go around the internet saying "LOL that fic was so bad", but instead go to the author and say "this was bad and that was bad, you might want to work on those things". Did I get it right? Or not?
If I'm understanding your arguments right, I'm agreeing with you, like, a lot.
</going back to old, discontinued conversations>
But what annoys me even more than unfinished conversations and stuff like that are people who want reviews, but not the review kind of reviews. I get immensily annoyed when I spot people who only read the good reviews they get or maybe ask for reviews and then get pissed off because the reviewer was "OMG so meen". Of course, I'm not saying anyone here is like that, but this subject brought it to my mind and now I'm practically enraged about the people wo do that.
If anyone remembers the course of creative writing I'm attending now, there's a girl on that very course who said that she can't handle criticism. She annoys me. I feel like criticizing her just because. Of course, I never do anything like that because like I said before, I don't have enough balls. It just irritates me so much. Does anyone else get irritated by people who want feedback but only the positive kind?
Of course, I understand if you get upset because you get a flamingly mean review, but that's not the kind of review I'm talking about.
I'm hoping that it'll make people think. The ending is promising to be very controversial and sad, so I'm hoping people will enjoy it. *Must... Not... Give... Away... Ending...*
In the 9th chapter of
Mama's Boy, I have a mind-bogglingly huge plot twist coming up. I've been planning it for chapters and chapters and feeling so much like giving it away, and I really hope it will shock people... And shake the very foundations of their life! After all,
Mama's Boy > life and everything. I'm deadly afraid, though, that people won't like the carefully planned plot twist I like so much myself.
...AAAAH! I can't keep it to myself! I have to reveal it! I'll put it in a spoiler so that you can spare yourselves from seeing it, because as I said,
Mama's Boy > life.