Re: OT: (A Rant) Drain Brameged Inc. Bites the Hand That Feeds It

["sixfeettoo" <gretchenb9362@xxxxxxx>]

OK, I'm a lurker.  I come in, eat your food, play with your toys, make 
a mess and leave.  I cannot write.  I'm a reader and I read a LOT.  If 
a story is exceptional and moves me, I will email the author and tell 
them how much I liked their story.  Email them, not post it to a 
message board. I like it to be a personal thing between me and the 
writer.  I can only assume that Mad Hamlet does the same thing.  Many 
people have posted without a response from Hamlet.

I understand that Mad Hamlet NEEDS a lot of attention since this 
posting is just a copy and paste of the last one.  We all heard you the 
first time.  Move On!  If you have never received an email from me...  
I didn't love the story enough to respond.  I will not send negative 
email or one that says it was 'OK'.  It's not encouraging to the writer 
and I never want to be the reason someone quits doing what they love.  
I thought that was why you write, because you love to do it.  Do you 
still love it, Hamlet?  You shouldn't care about the rest of us.  You 
should be doing this for you and the love of it.

I am going to be painfully honest to Mad Hamlet.  You wonder what has 
happened to this group?  <besides being AFRAID to post cause Hamlet has 
isolated the whole group>  As I said before I read a lot.  B/W fiction 
has always been a favorite of mine.  But the quality of the fiction is 
no longer here.  IN MY OPINION, the best b/w writers are gone.  They no 
longer post or write.  With the exception of a few writers, everyone 
writing now is mediocre. I still read it, but feel nothing for most of 
it. I honestly believe this group is dying because of it and that is 
what is scaring Mad Hamlet enough to go through this all over again. 

OK, here is how it also works, in my opinion.  Someone starts a 
story... a great story... you tell them 'please write more'. 6 months 
later, no update... email again 'loved the story please write more'.  2 
years later, nothing.  Where is my incentive to keep going?  There are 
so many stories that are not completed and frankly I'm tired of 
starting stories only to find they are not finished and probably never 
will be finished.  So I will not read a 'part 1' of anything until I 
see that there are more regular updates.  Why invest myself in 
something that will never find a conclusion?  So all of this goes both 
ways.  I bet if someone wrote a story beginning to end and then posted 
it would receive much much feedback.  But that never happens, right?  I 
haven't seen one here in a while.  I also belong to a 'popular' tv 
group.  They finish most of their stories and I see lots of feedback 
because of it.  Everyone is nice and polite and there are no Mad 
Hamlets making the environment hostile and unpleasant.  If I liked your 
stuff you would probably recognize my name.  Cause, guess what?, I 
emailed you and told you.  That doesn't mean I never read your stuff, 
it just never made me go 'wow that was incredible'.  I know Mad Hamlet 
has a very large series going over at the Realm, and I had to go back 
and remember what it was about and why I don't remember it.  Then Oh 
yea there is was....Willow gets raped.  I don't want to read that.  
Sorry Hamlet, maybe it gets better, maybe it's more of the same, but 
you lost me.  So guess what? You never heard from me.  I guess I 
could've emailed you and said, 'sorry won't read it cause willow gets 
raped-something very common in f/f in order for the character to get 
pregnant, tired of it'.  That's not me, I won't do that, but since you 
seem to want to hear it, there it was.  I don't know if your character 
gets pregnant but didn't want to stick around and find out.

getting a headache now and hope i didn't offend too much,
G










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