I sat down yesterday to answer my
fanfic reviews, as I always do. And one just totally derailed me.
It was a bit garbled, but I asked
kid 3 to read it and check if I was misinterpreting it.
The reviewer berated me for not
adding another single word to the completed one shot they were reviewing. They suggested
that other authors gave me enough of an idea to write a one shot; an idea that those
authors then didn’t write for fear of being accused of plagiarism.
They suggested that I had lost the
trust of authors who no longer used me as a sounding board and that was why I no
longer wrote anything. They accused me of having no ideas of my own.
And they finished with ‘just a
thought’ which will usually enrage me. [what is it about that phrase that is
such a trigger?]
It took me ages to craft a
response. I wasn’t rude, or abusive.
But looking at their message again
today, they meant to be that rude. They say they are a fan of mine, but I really
doubt it. And I don’t need fans like that.
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