The Price of (a tiny little bit of) Fame
I'd mentioned before about getting a bad review and how it actually made me feel good as opposed to bad, like I'd joined a select fraternity.
Now I found another one, and this time it makes me mad. Because the person didn't like my story? No. I'm irked because while she may have read it, she didn't comprehend it. That she would say denigrating things out of ignorance is most uncool.
I'm not going to provide a link, and I'm not going to reply on her site either. As mentioned before, that rarely goes well and I'm not interested in getting into a pissing contest with some random person because my story didn't do it for her. But I am going to vent here and show you why.
here's her review:
Erk. Even I can tell that the main character's going to have trouble in his relationship. Even though he's supposedly "in love" his description of his girlfriend sounds more like an advert for a porn-bot than a person. Wow, she's blond, hot, loves to wear the naugh-tay lingerie you buy her and go shopping. I mean, yes, there are women who have those characteristics but only if you cut out lots of other interesting bits.
Okay. I feel maybe she's dragging her own personal issues into this, just a bit. At no point is the protagonist's girlfriend mentioned to have blond hair. She doesn't wear 'naugh-tay' lingerie, she makes the plain pajamas he's buying for her seem like lingerie. And there's never a mention of her having a love of shopping, but rather that the two of them were forced to go to a mall just before Christmas. Who was this girl's fact-checker, Sarah Palin?
I'm going to resist the urge to go refudiate her, though. Heh.
Now I found another one, and this time it makes me mad. Because the person didn't like my story? No. I'm irked because while she may have read it, she didn't comprehend it. That she would say denigrating things out of ignorance is most uncool.
I'm not going to provide a link, and I'm not going to reply on her site either. As mentioned before, that rarely goes well and I'm not interested in getting into a pissing contest with some random person because my story didn't do it for her. But I am going to vent here and show you why.
here's her review:
Erk. Even I can tell that the main character's going to have trouble in his relationship. Even though he's supposedly "in love" his description of his girlfriend sounds more like an advert for a porn-bot than a person. Wow, she's blond, hot, loves to wear the naugh-tay lingerie you buy her and go shopping. I mean, yes, there are women who have those characteristics but only if you cut out lots of other interesting bits.
Okay. I feel maybe she's dragging her own personal issues into this, just a bit. At no point is the protagonist's girlfriend mentioned to have blond hair. She doesn't wear 'naugh-tay' lingerie, she makes the plain pajamas he's buying for her seem like lingerie. And there's never a mention of her having a love of shopping, but rather that the two of them were forced to go to a mall just before Christmas. Who was this girl's fact-checker, Sarah Palin?
I'm going to resist the urge to go refudiate her, though. Heh.