Fans, I wonder

[kippurbird]

Got a review on my Twilight story Seduction. Person said it wasn't at all inspiring. And I'm all... whut? It's not supposed to be. XD. Checked the guy's profile and they said they were against Sues but their favorite stories were Twilight and the Inheritance cycle. Irony!

Comments

[dergerm.livejournal.com]

lulz

[authoressarktos.livejournal.com]

What what? Your Twilight story? I demand links! XD

[dove-cg.livejournal.com]

Well, there are some people who define Mary Sues as being fanfiction-only characters. Which is why Limyaael coined the phrase "Author's Darlings" during her rants. XD

However... I mean, you wrote that fanfic with the actual characters from the books, right? Heh heh...

[dove-cg.livejournal.com]

Then again, now that I'm thinking about it, maybe what the reviewer was trying to get across was the fact you made it explicit how creepy everything was. (Didn't you? I forget now.) Which isn't what the fans want. They want that HARDCORE STALKER FEELING to be viewed as a deep, extremely emotional crush that gives your significant other the chance to drip praise on you as you feel wangsty about how utterly worthless you actually are.

[mistyeyedreamer.livejournal.com]

*facepalm*

[shmeiliarockie.livejournal.com]

Don't you see? Nothing can be written for entertainment. It must be deep soul-searching emo wangstfic literature, or else it isn't worth s/h/its time. You don't just measure up. (But to be fair, neither does Shakespeare.)

I, on the otherhand, love that fic to pieces.

[dryaunda.livejournal.com]

Nothing can be written for entertainment. It must be deep soul-searching emo wangstfic literature.

That reminds me of my short story class, which is turning out to be nothing but Deep Allegory, Everyman's struggles, class conflict, etc.

[kjtaylor.livejournal.com]

Hey, Kippur.
Man some online reviewers are 'tards. I wrote a Twilight parody which I posted on FF.net and got my backside flamed off by some moronic fangirl. Some of the stuff she said wasn't just dumb; it outright made no sense at all.


PS: I thought you might like to know that I'm one step closer to getting published in the US. The agent who works for Terry Goodkind (!!) read my manuscript and said it was so wonderful he nearly cried at the end (no, really, he actually said that).

He's now about to start shopping it around at all the major US-based fantasy labels. Wish me luck!

[dove-cg.livejournal.com]

Awesome! I wish you luck as well. :)