With "support" like this, who needs enemies?

[wiseheart]

A few days ago I was very pleased to have found a new reader for my "Sleeping Dragons" series on FF.Net - and one who was willing to leave a few reviews, too.

Then they left this review to the fifth, so far unfinished story:

Okay... you have clearly devoted hundreds of hours into creating and building this amazing quintet of stories... character development is amazing, I feel like I really know these people... the story lines themselves, the way you've interwoven them all so seamlessly, this all rivals any professionally written episode of Torchwood ever filmed.

Why, after you put in so much brilliant work, would you just thumb your nose at your readers and throw away everything you've done? I don't understand and I am beyond disappointed in you. You do everything you can to get your readers invested in your work and then leave them high and dry. Shame on you.

Yes, this is harsh, but I cannot help how I and I'm sure every one of your readers feels right now.

At first I considered sending them a rather unfriendly answer about their manners and that I'm not obliged to deliver the next update according their timetable, but then I decided that they weren't worth it. I'm still royally pissed, though. Who do these people think they are? My stories take a long time to finish, and then there's such thing as writer's block, lack of inspiration and Real Life. Do they pay me to update regularly or whatnot?

Comments

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

When I find a WIP I like I usually subscribe to it/put it on my Story Alert list. Then, when the author manages to continue, I get a message from the archive and can go and read it. It's such a neat solution, I can't understand why some people are unable to use it.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

For the same reason some people can't use LJ cuts. They don't want to be bothered.