not-close-to-straight:
reioka:
If your comment on one of my fics ever looks like this I’m going to go full Samara and come crawling through your computer screen to murder you.
readers like this are what make writers stop writing all together.
“sorry life sucks but you have to realize that the readers feelings are more important?”
FUCK OFF
When you see writers say “i hate readers” this is the shit they are talking about.
As a writer myself, I can honestly say that this comment was ruder than saying not to just say ‘update soon’. Like there are nicer ways to show how much you love it?
I know that I will get things that just say ‘update soon’ since I’m posting it, and I honestly don’t expect an epic poem as a response, but I would like more than those two words. Even if it’s as simple as saying “Oh my gosh I love ths so much, I can’t wait for more” it’s so much nicer than simply saying ‘update soon’. The tone is different and it shows that you care for it more, it shows more that you like this story versus the needy, rude tone of just two words. I quit writing for a while after I had someone always comment ‘update soon’ on the chapters of a fic I wrote. At the end, they gave a long comment at last, but it amount to ‘I hated this story, these characters were all ooc, but it was nice to see my favorite pair as the main plotline’.
Like I don’t comment on every new chapter my faves post, but I sometimes make myself focus my fangirling into a coherent-ish comment/reply/etc. So Readers, please try to give more than those two words if you comment. I promise it means so much more. It may even help the words come faster.