Bad Reviews

[fetish101]

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My pet peeve is Americans telling me my spelling is wrong!

I just point out that you speak an Americanised version of English and I write in the Queen's English.

Right on! We spell english the way it was meant to be spelt.

[AndrewBlack]

Yes, plenty of z instead of s and -re instead of -er in center for example are my pet peeves. Color too pisses me off, and fetus, and scientific terms like hematology. What can you do?

[Alex Bragi]

I don’t quite understand. I looked for your stories, and found only one, but as yet no one has rated it. Perhaps this negative feedback has been emailed to you?

Obviously you’re unhappy and who could blame you. You spent hours and hours creating something special and unique only to have someone come along and shred it to pieces with a vicious review. Believe me, since I’ve started writing I’ve had more than my fair share of that. Some has been very hurtful; some has been very helpful. I guess you just have to take it all, and use what you can.

Spelling - some readers are rather pedantic and even the most minor of mistakes will irk them. Personally, I’m not one of them. If a story is good, it’s not difficult and, indeed it’s certainly worthwhile to skim over the odd mistake. By the way I spell your way, I’m Australian, but for the sake of the majority of readers of this particular site, I generally use 'USA spelling'.

Criticisms - well what can I say? Usually the ones doing the slicing and dicing are the ones who also pride themselves in being fine writers, so what I want to know is – if their so articulate - why can’t they find a more polite and constructive way of expressing their opinions?

Erotica – everyone’s idea of erotica is different. Some people want it all wham bam thank you ma’am right in their hot little faces, while others like to take a gentler pace. You can’t please everyone, so don’t even try.

I don’t know who gave you the bad feedback, but I can tell you I had a quick look at your self-title story just now and it all looks fine to me. It’s not quite my cup of tea, but that’s not to say it’s not a very good read.

You’re right, your style is your own, never try to change it or emulate someone else’s.

Have a better day,

Alex.

[Morrighan]

The thing about writing, as with most art, is that it can't be quantified and it's difficult to qualify. It simply is. I've not read your work, but the most important thing I ever learned in proofreading or critiquing others' work is that the criticism must be constructive. You say what you liked, and then comment on what you didn't (kindly) with a reason why you didn't like it. The choice of subjects is never something you can critique. If you don't like the subject matter, don't read the story.

I'm a writer myself, and I would be as hurt and upset if someone ever flamed one of my stories. I know I have a tendency to overwrite and overdescribe, and I've gotten some useful feedback on that. But "constructive criticism" are the two most important words any reviewer should know.

Morrighan

P.S. Oh, and I've never critiqued someone on spelling when it's obviously British English. To say that either Americans or Brits are "spelling wrong" seems to me to be on par with saying the Chinese alphabet is wrong. It's not wrong, just different.

[Powerone]

"How about with the spelling. I use the spell check on Word Perfect 9 for my stories, but I'll admit to mixing the odd it's with its and there and their. Anyother possible "misspelling" are either the Canadian spelling, or a side effect of transferring the story from Word Perfect 9 to .txt and/or html files."

Your synopsis of the story I reviewed said "Loric is an a novice priest of Moslar, God/dess of Rape and pervesion, trying gain full priesthood by raping and enslaving others."

Ignoring the word god/dess it is says Loric is an a (should be a not both) and pervesion is spelled perversion. My spell checker caught the word perversion and proofreading would have caught the double a or an. This had nothing to do with Canadian spelling or transferring text from Word Perfect to Html files (you can send the story to Jinn in a Word Perfect file).

As to writing in my style, never asked you to and would probably be insulted if you did. It is my style and I like to keep it that way. My only comment was "Didn't care too much for the story either." which as a reader, I am entitled to my opinion.

You will always find readers that don't like your stories and will tell you that. I get people that will vote a 1 because they don't like the subject matter, not the story. You just take what you can use and ignore the rest.

There is always a lack of people willing to review stories and your criticism of them in a public forum will make others even more reluctant to do so.

Powerone

[Carmenica Diaz]

I enjoy writing stories
Once I've written it, I truthfully couldn't care what happened to it.
I publish at various sites, the comments are good, interesting and fun but no more than that.

I think if you write for the reviews/comments you have a problem.

Of course, I know absolutely bloody nothing, so ignore me.

[Omega Phallic]

I was in a rush when I wrote the synopsis, I was in a rush and few spell mistakes aren't a big deal.

I never said that Powerone was the one who said my style should be like his, someone else said it should be more like his, others were mentioned for possible imation as well.

It's not that I can't take critism, but I think Alex Bragi had it dead on. I like constructive critism, but senselessly brutalizing my work pisses me off.

As for being publicly critical of my critics, have I no right to defend my honour? I'm not the one who scares reviewers away.

I won't mention who told me this, but I've heard of how a circle of critics would blast people for giving good reviews to stories like didn't like, and the fact the most of my positive feedback has been emailed to me, instead of posted right on the site makes me think that this is true.

Alex Bragi if you wish to find more of my stories, click onto this link to a list of my stories . http://www.bdsmlibrary.com/stories/a...?authorid=1020