Disappointment

[wiseheart]

My Advent calendar was doing reasonably well on SoA, at least given the average of comments I tend to get there: at least 2 reviews per chapter. Until Chapter 18, that is. No-one of the 88 people who supposedly read it found it good enough to say something encouraging. That's hard. It isn't an easy series to write, but until now at least a few people seemed to appreciate it.

On FF.Net, someone mentioned that they had the same OC as I, wondering if that was a coincidence. Which means in translation: they suspect that I've stolen Elulindo from them. I never read a word of their writing. It's all very discouraging. And I was so hoping that I might pull through the stupid calendar. I've written 20 chapters already. But by this sort of reaction - and the lack of it - I'm not sure I'll bother to actually finish it.

Comments

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

*hugs*
I haven't read it yet, but am looking forward to it, now that all the Yuletide work is beginning to calm down. It is very silly of them to think you stole their OC - coincidence is much more likely, especially with coming up with names from the given languages...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Actually, i've checked my sources out of curiosity and realized that Elulindo son of Olwë is a canon character that Tolkien later rejected. I found him in HoMe and forgot about his canon origins. Now I find the comment even more insulting.

[jenn-calaelen.livejournal.com]

Very insulting! At least now you know they are being completely unreasonable!