AFF Anger Spikes: A new mini series featuring quick rants! Today's topic: comments!
Heyhey, kids.
I decided that since my big- review blogs usually take me a while to finish up I might as well start this mini series which will be more focused on the speedy and quick type of anger. I get mad a lot and I need to express it now and then, and lots of things I can't talk about in the blogs come up continuously. This mini-series is made for fast fury, hoes.
Today I wanted to go over this weird trend I've been seing lately in the blog section which is about how authors go around expecting people to comment and to stay subscribed and to interact all the ing time with their stories because reasons.
No, es, no.
Let's get this straight - ain't nobody owe you a mothain thing.
This world doesn't owe you anything. It does not owe you a living, it does not owe you a place to live, it does not owe you success or money or friends or love and it sure as hell doesn't owe you comments on a story.
This goes back to so much stuff I've been wanting to say and what I'm trying to point out with my WTFIAFFD series, which is that if you want people to comment, you have to write compelling enough prose to elicit such emotion which makes them want to. If your story is and boring, what am I supposed to comment on it? Should I say stuff like "hey your story because it's boring" just to leave a comment? Is that the point of comments?
What this tells me about authors who crave comments is that they can't tell that what they're writing isn't interesting enough. They're hailing their own work as better than it is, adopting an attitude of "but I updated so many times, why isn't anybody saying anything???". It's self-victimizing, and you should be above that because your writing isn't about how you work hard on your quality, it's about how you just want to get validation from some ers online.
And for the ing record - why do I have to thank you just because you're updating fast? Who gives a ? I'm glad you can churn out content at a quick pace, but don't expect me to gratefully bow to you and call you author-nim. Gimme a ing break, man. If you're updating fast and nobody says anything, it's probably because nobody enjoys your story and the quality of the chapters you post is intensely low. It's probably because it's not interesting enough to generate any thought from the readers. A little PS. to those who care - you can request beta readers and instate co-authors for a reson, dickheads.
And another thing! Who the says I am obliged to stay subscribed to your story? Huh? Why the should I do that? Why should I stay subscribed to a story that I once found interesting but then grew out of? That I perhaps only subscribed to because it looked interesting but turned out to be ty? That I ended up never liking anyway? That hasn't been updated? That's been poorly updated? COME ON. WHen you're complaining about the lack of comments, you're complaining about how people don't give you enough attention, which is a very poorly thought out reason for writing things and posting them.
The end game with writing is that it's an introspective pleasure. We're alone when we do it, and we let ourselves feel incredible things so that we can remember all that stuff forever because now it exists on paper. We do it so that we can let our imagination go wild and so that we can create and make art.
What kind of ing artist creates something and then complains because not enough people are praising it? Where the is your integrity at, motherer? If Claude Monet had made art strictly for the purpose of having people praise him for it, then his art would have been ty for the longest time. He wouldn't have made his style his own, he wouldn't have perfected his impressionism, he would have just made painting after painting in order to get somebody to say something about them. That's not art, that's a product that you want people to buy. You're not doing it because you like it, you're doing it because you want attention for it.
Art - writing - is slow improvement. There's a reason artists tediously work toward bettering themselves, because it makes their art better.
Grow the up, kids. This is a website on the internet. Nobody owes you simply because you post on it.
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