SeriousBrainDamage
Really Really Experienced
Hey guys,
since lately I have been writing very little, I had time to reflect on how I behave as a reader.
Turns out, I may be a very ungrateful and unpolite one.
A few points to explain my surmise:
-If your chapter has already 30+ likes, I won't like even if I do like it. You've got more than enough attention;
-If you chapter or story is full of misspells, typos and so on and looks like you wrote it from your phone and never, not even once, you took your time to re-read it to fix the most obvious errors, I won't like it;
(Gee, my chapter count would be 999.999 thousands by now if I did the same, instead I check my stuff 999.999 times and while yes, it is still full of errors, my chapter count is a much more lower number.)
-If I'm enjoing your story, I will probably like the introduction as a token of appreciation, then forget to like anything else,
-If I come across your story and find that there is something wrong with it, I will eventually post a single ellipitc comment which in my view should be witty and sarcastic to point you in the right direction, no thanks needed really;
Now, that is most of it, yet what really bugs me is someting else.
It is about how I perceive the stuff I read.
Sometimes I come across a well written story: the premise is good, the writing is good, there are few errors, and it reads beautifully.
Then I start digging into it and at some point I realize that I feel no compulsion to keep on reading, that the story is not doing anything for me.
Sometimes I eventually do go through with it, but I do that mostly because I feel I could learn something out of it.
On the other hand, some other times, I come across a badly written story: the premise has potential but something is off, the first key plot points are weak, it is full of error and the grammar is rather poor.
Yet, for some reason, this second type of story hooks me in more than the well written one.
As a reader, I think I would be my own worst nightmare, from a writer standpoint.
Most of the stories I liked more on Chyoa can be defined as childish and badly written, yet I can see perfectly their flaws.
What's wrong with me?
Have you ever felt the same?
since lately I have been writing very little, I had time to reflect on how I behave as a reader.
Turns out, I may be a very ungrateful and unpolite one.
A few points to explain my surmise:
-If your chapter has already 30+ likes, I won't like even if I do like it. You've got more than enough attention;
-If you chapter or story is full of misspells, typos and so on and looks like you wrote it from your phone and never, not even once, you took your time to re-read it to fix the most obvious errors, I won't like it;
(Gee, my chapter count would be 999.999 thousands by now if I did the same, instead I check my stuff 999.999 times and while yes, it is still full of errors, my chapter count is a much more lower number.)
-If I'm enjoing your story, I will probably like the introduction as a token of appreciation, then forget to like anything else,
-If I come across your story and find that there is something wrong with it, I will eventually post a single ellipitc comment which in my view should be witty and sarcastic to point you in the right direction, no thanks needed really;
Now, that is most of it, yet what really bugs me is someting else.
It is about how I perceive the stuff I read.
Sometimes I come across a well written story: the premise is good, the writing is good, there are few errors, and it reads beautifully.
Then I start digging into it and at some point I realize that I feel no compulsion to keep on reading, that the story is not doing anything for me.
Sometimes I eventually do go through with it, but I do that mostly because I feel I could learn something out of it.
On the other hand, some other times, I come across a badly written story: the premise has potential but something is off, the first key plot points are weak, it is full of error and the grammar is rather poor.
Yet, for some reason, this second type of story hooks me in more than the well written one.
As a reader, I think I would be my own worst nightmare, from a writer standpoint.
Most of the stories I liked more on Chyoa can be defined as childish and badly written, yet I can see perfectly their flaws.
What's wrong with me?
Have you ever felt the same?
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