A pleasant surprise

[wiseheart]

I've been asked for permission by the Tower of Ecthelion people to post my story "Cold Comfort" in their archive. It makes me really happy, as I usually don't get discovered by new peoples, buried under the heaps of dubious stuff on ff.net.

I feel less like a pariah now. :) It's a nice feeling.

Comments

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I can follow. How did you get flamed? I went to your LJ, but maybe I've been looking in the wrong place?

[circestale.livejournal.com]

No, she didn't flame me directly in my LJ, although she left the tersest response to my original post. A few hours later she left a very long rant on her own LJ about how she felt people who complained about lack of feedback were writing/creating for all the wrong reasons, and should basically shut up, in her opinion. Which is all hypocritical pap considering she was on her own LJ about a month ago doing the same exact thing. Ah, fandom!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I see. That happened to me, too, a few times. People accusing me of review whoring while doing the same.

And I hate it when they lecture me to write for the joy of writing. Damn it, if we weren't interested in readers, we wouldn't post our stuff on the 'Net - especially those who hypocritically state they only write because they love writing. Usually these are the people with their own fangirl pack and sychopants scuking up to them all the time. It's easy to talk down to other people when one has been blown up to *the* star of any particular fandom.