Thursday, December 20, 2007

Feedback - Breakdown

I just got my first-ever negative feedback today. It was from Literotica, and I quote:

1 Quantum Mechanic is really a
12/20/07 by Anonymous

Quantum Jerk

That was it. Very helpful, informative feedback, aye? Surprisingly, it was on a story that I had posted previously (Breakdown) on another website (ASSTR), and which had received a good deal of positive feedback there. There are four chapters and an epilogue to the story, and while all have been submitted, Lit has only released chapter 1 to the website. Of course, that's probably enough to decide if you don't like a story.

If you don't like my story, fine. Tell me what you don't like, and if I think I can make a better story out of it, maybe I'll change it. Quite aside from the infantile nature of one-liners calling me a jerk, they don't help me become a better writer.

To balance this out, though, I did get a very nice email from another reader, who did not choose to remain anonymous to me. I hope that the rest of the story proves as interesting as that reader anticipates.

Ciao

QM

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