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avatar on 2017-06-17 15:33:39

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I think you're taking things a bit too seriously here. You need to ask yourself: why are you writing?

Are you writing for the enjoyment of writing itself? Then what do the ratings matter?

Are you writing to become famous? Don't do it on Fiction Branches. We're tiny. It won't work.

Are you writing for the benefit of an audience? Then, for better or for worse, you have to accept their feedback and try to learn from it.

Many years ago, I posted a story to Fictionmania that raised political hackles in a way I wasn't expecting. By chance, this was just before the Great FM Crash of 2008/2009, so by the time the site came back online I'd just decided to make a clean break with a new username. And in that time, what I wanted to write changed a bit as well.

But I learned that the way I'd handled the story was not ideal. I probably wouldn't post a similar one to Fictionmania again, but if I did, it would be with a defter hand. Or, conversely, with a blunter hammer so that if I'm going to get a reaction, it's at least deserved.

So those are your options. Learn and alter your writing, or embrace the fact that people get upset by it. Or, of course, you can always find a new audience. But complaining doesn't really solve anything. Nor do wild accusations and in-depth analyses on why, of all possible reasons, someone may have clicked a particular number on a tiny fiction website, floating in the ether of cyberspace, alone in the infinite void.




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