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Peer Pressure
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: Carter-Orange on July 12, 2011, 10:36:26 AM ---I hate when people threaten the readers that unless they get some feedback they'll stop the updates. That makes me think they are only writing for popularity.
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That's a huge pet peeve of mine too! On the other end of the spectrum, I also hate when people act like reviews don't matter at all to them and don't even bother to reply to their reviews. It's important to write for yourself, first and foremost, but let's be honest - if we were ONLY writing for ourselves, we wouldn't be posting our stuff for others to read. I'll be the first to admit, I love feedback, and I look forward to getting reviews! I just don't let a lack of reviews or bad reviews stop me from writing or posting more chapters.
Carter-Orange:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on July 12, 2011, 10:54:25 AM ---That's a huge pet peeve of mine too! On the other end of the spectrum, I also hate when people act like reviews don't matter at all to them and don't even bother to reply to their reviews. It's important to write for yourself, first and foremost, but let's be honest - if we were ONLY writing for ourselves, we wouldn't be posting our stuff for others to read. I'll be the first to admit, I love feedback, and I look forward to getting reviews! I just don't let a lack of reviews or bad reviews stop me from writing or posting more chapters.
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That's how I feel. I don't write just for reviews, but I do love it when I get them and I always respond to them. I would never leave a bad review for someone, if I didn't like the story I'd just click back out of it, but I have left reviews about poor spelling and layout (luckily there don't seem to be any of those anymore).
Lack of reviews never stops me posting.
mare:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on July 12, 2011, 10:54:25 AM ---That's a huge pet peeve of mine too! On the other end of the spectrum, I also hate when people act like reviews don't matter at all to them and don't even bother to reply to their reviews. It's important to write for yourself, first and foremost, but let's be honest - if we were ONLY writing for ourselves, we wouldn't be posting our stuff for others to read. I'll be the first to admit, I love feedback, and I look forward to getting reviews! I just don't let a lack of reviews or bad reviews stop me from writing or posting more chapters.
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The WORST is when you have someone always complaining about lack of reviews but yet they openly admit to not reviewing stories themselves! Those people drive me nutso!! lol
RokofAges75:
--- Quote from: mare on July 12, 2011, 11:10:00 AM ---The WORST is when you have someone always complaining about lack of reviews but yet they openly admit to not reviewing stories themselves! Those people drive me nutso!! lol
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Oh my god, yes!! LOL
Rose:
Do you ever let peer pressure effect your writing?
No. I love my readers but I feel what they want isn't what's best for the story most of the time. Now the characters have changed things up in the story before. Where I'm writing something I had originally planned but suddenly it just doesn't suit the character anymore so the direction needs to change. But I'll never change anything based on the readers. You do that and it could kill your story. It's like writing endless series because of popular demand. Just... no lol.
Also, how does your feedback influence what you write if at all? (Changing a genre to fit with the popularity of what people seem to want to read, or lack of feedback = lack of updates)
It doesn't. I've done every genre under the sun almost (except visuals and slash). And some are more popular than others. Like Nick angst is huge, I learned, when I started RMTW lol. But, I love RMTW just as much as I love writing 00Carter which has almost no reviews. (Which gets delayed cause of some of my collab partners, not because of my own inspiration lol). It's nice to get a lot of reviews but it doesn't decide anything for me.
How thin or thick skinned are you when it comes to what other people say reguarding your writing or even talking about your genre in general? do you feel like you can handle it or does it make you stray from writing?
Now I'm pretty thick skinned when it comes to people. At the same time, I saw someone say once that people who write angst, are wishing whatever we do to them in the story, on them in real life. And I'm not gonna lie, it royally pissed me off at the time. I saw it as a huge insult cause I would never wish anything bad on the Boys for real. The whole point is that it's fiction.
I've never really gotten flames or anything on my actual writing, so I'll be honest - I'm not sure how I'd handle it. I'd like to think I'd just toss it aside. I can handle concrit though, which is different. In that case I'd take it to learn from and keep writing. If it's just a distaste thing, I keep writing knowing I can't please everyone.
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