I want to address something that would not usually bother me, but it does today (as it did yesterday).
I've received a comment on my Legacy story about how one of the chapters is shorter than the rest.
Firstly, I wasn't aware each chapter has to have a specific word count so I may satisfy people who consider themselves special. Do some of you do this with books you read, and send the author complaints how chapters are not composed to your expectations?
Secondly, it's rude. Yes, it is in fact rude. And childish. I don't care what you wanted to convey and how you wrote it. Why point that out to me at all? I wrote it. I know it's shorter and why it is shorter than the rest. So, you pointed it out to express your own dissatisfaction. How did you want me to respond? To apologize? No. I will be spiteful about it and might punish you (and unfortunately the rest of my readers because of your self-centered ass). I was called many times awful, rude, mean and all kinds of names beneath the sun for defending my works when I refuse to apologize for not taking childish criticism to the heart and crying about it. Instead, I insult back or respond in a condescending manner befit of the way the person wrote to me. I will not be talked down to by some child that is feeling brave on the internet. I will always defend my work, even if it's shit. Because it's my shit. And you don't have to read it. Skip it and have a good day. If I wanted something picked apart by an insecure person, I would've asked.
Thirdly, I refuse from now on to respond to anyone who doesn't want to write in English due to this person. You are reading my stories, so, I assume you know and understand enough of the language to write it. English not being your first language is not an excuse (it's not mine either). If you don't have common courtesy and are too lazy to write in a manner for me to understand, I will be lazy in return and skip reading it. I'm not obliged to run your comments/asks through Google translate.
The point of this rant is to have respect for writers and their stories. I don't care what kind of crap you write about me, but I draw the line with my works. I also want to draw awareness of how this kind of behaviour from readers might hurt some writers. You never know who is going through something horrible in their personal life and you drag them more down with your insensitivity. They, we, don't need your frustrations poured down on us. If the author doesn't ask about feedback don't criticize their work. We don't need pressure from you to write more for you (if anything I'll stop writing altogether just to spite you). If it's a one-shot, it's a damn one-shot. Also, each writer has a different pace in which they write. Leave them alone and stop asking when the next chapter will come out.
Like my mama always says: "If you don't have anything nice to say, then say nothing at all."
