Troll of the Month
Note: I try to get into a habit of writing at least 10 minutes everyday using a 30-day prompts ebook. I also got another comment from a certain troll on one of my fics today. Seriously, I don't get what's her deal!
So, I meshed the two together. I feel better now, and I wanna share the parody(?) fic about my situation. Forgive me, this is my way to vent without being (too) violent.
The prompt is italicized.
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Day 3- March 4, 2012
Imagine you're looking through a collection of short stories. One of the titles catches your interest. That's the story you want to read first. What might the title be? Invent a title that would make you want to read the story. Now, write a story to go with that title...
"Troll of the Month"
Jenna woke up to find her phone had filled with Facebook notifications and email alerts she had received during the night. Having a smartphone was such a convenience sometimes, so she didn’t bother to log on to her computer, and she read her email in the palm of her hand.
What a rude awakening, literally! She found someone commented on her short story in one of the message boards for would-be writers.
“You're right in saying that you failed since you did but then that's just my opinion, as we are all entitled to one. I do like that female celeb though.”
Jenna was confused. “Huh?” she said. She had never seen that username in any of her previous fics before, and certainly not anywhere in her fellow fic writers’ comments and forum posting. Curiously, she clicked on the user name and lo and behold, wouldn’t you know it, she doesn’t write a single fic. What a troll!
But Jenna was still feeling slighted. Should she cuss out this moron to the bottomless pit of Internet troll graveyard, or she turn her other cheek and ignore the pointless jab. She told her fellow writers/friends about her decision via Facebook.
A couple of them were kind enough to bash the trollette with equally patronizing voice the troll had given Jenna, letting the troll know what it means to leave a constructive criticism.
Days passed, and there were no comments from the trollette, so Jenna thought she was embarrassed being told of her own failure. Clearly the poor soul had enough sense to Google “constructive criticism” and found out that a “concrit” is pointing out where someone fails, THEN telling him/her HOW TO IMPROVE.
Jenna should have known that Internet trolls are hard to kill. It’s the Internet after all. No one could reach into their computer screens and strangle the loser at the other end… in Jenna’s case, smack her with a dictionary.
The trollette came back, giving weird comments again to Jenna’s friends.
“What I posted was constructive. It would only depend on how you perceive it to be,” the trollette said. “I'm sure that I'm being misunderstood in the context of what I'm trying to say here.”
Having enough of the trollette’s invalid arguments, Jenna finally commented on the trollette to shut the fuck up. No, not really. Unlike the troll, Jenna had readers to think about and she valued their opinions of her as a mature writer. So she proceeded to write a firm comment to the trollette, like a teacher patiently telling her kindergartener what she did wrong, hoping the immature child (not unlike the trollette) would say sorry.
“You cannot JUSTIFY your comment as being constructive. Four people have seen and agreed it was not, so it’s not just one’s perspective,” Jenna posted. “Yes, you may point out that I did fail, fine. Point out to me in YOUR comment where you gave me something constructive with your criticism. If your comment had been a concrit, as you claim to be, you would have given me pointers as to where I had failed and how I can improve from that fail. You had given me no such pointers on how to improve. That is where YOU, my dear, HAVE FAILED!”
A week went by, but yet again, the trollette came by, this time leaving her reply to Jenna’s comment.
“And I feel sad that your minds are not open nor matured enough to take criticism or any form. ^_^,” the trollette replied, still not leaving any bases or proofs where in her original comment was ever a constructive criticism. Clearly from her last words that she indirectly confessed her original comment was a plain criticism, NOT a CONSTRUCTIVE criticism as she had claimed in her previous replies.
Jenna was at a lost for words. How could anyone have no shame, even through the anonymity of the Internet, was beyond her. The only possible way not to bash this bitch up was to ignore the trollette, let her have her last words as she seemed to want it, and ban her from ever commenting again.
And to vent her frustrations on the futile attempt to stop and kill the troll, knowing now that there is NOTHING that kills a troll once she had her sights going, she wrote a story about it.
After all, Jenna was a writer.
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A/N: On a fence to post the link to the original thread here. If you want, I'll edit and post it.
5 steps to providing good contructive criticism
wiki constructive criticism
So, I meshed the two together. I feel better now, and I wanna share the parody(?) fic about my situation. Forgive me, this is my way to vent without being (too) violent.
The prompt is italicized.
***************
Day 3- March 4, 2012
Imagine you're looking through a collection of short stories. One of the titles catches your interest. That's the story you want to read first. What might the title be? Invent a title that would make you want to read the story. Now, write a story to go with that title...
"Troll of the Month"
Jenna woke up to find her phone had filled with Facebook notifications and email alerts she had received during the night. Having a smartphone was such a convenience sometimes, so she didn’t bother to log on to her computer, and she read her email in the palm of her hand.
What a rude awakening, literally! She found someone commented on her short story in one of the message boards for would-be writers.
“You're right in saying that you failed since you did but then that's just my opinion, as we are all entitled to one. I do like that female celeb though.”
Jenna was confused. “Huh?” she said. She had never seen that username in any of her previous fics before, and certainly not anywhere in her fellow fic writers’ comments and forum posting. Curiously, she clicked on the user name and lo and behold, wouldn’t you know it, she doesn’t write a single fic. What a troll!
But Jenna was still feeling slighted. Should she cuss out this moron to the bottomless pit of Internet troll graveyard, or she turn her other cheek and ignore the pointless jab. She told her fellow writers/friends about her decision via Facebook.
A couple of them were kind enough to bash the trollette with equally patronizing voice the troll had given Jenna, letting the troll know what it means to leave a constructive criticism.
Days passed, and there were no comments from the trollette, so Jenna thought she was embarrassed being told of her own failure. Clearly the poor soul had enough sense to Google “constructive criticism” and found out that a “concrit” is pointing out where someone fails, THEN telling him/her HOW TO IMPROVE.
Jenna should have known that Internet trolls are hard to kill. It’s the Internet after all. No one could reach into their computer screens and strangle the loser at the other end… in Jenna’s case, smack her with a dictionary.
The trollette came back, giving weird comments again to Jenna’s friends.
“What I posted was constructive. It would only depend on how you perceive it to be,” the trollette said. “I'm sure that I'm being misunderstood in the context of what I'm trying to say here.”
Having enough of the trollette’s invalid arguments, Jenna finally commented on the trollette to shut the fuck up. No, not really. Unlike the troll, Jenna had readers to think about and she valued their opinions of her as a mature writer. So she proceeded to write a firm comment to the trollette, like a teacher patiently telling her kindergartener what she did wrong, hoping the immature child (not unlike the trollette) would say sorry.
“You cannot JUSTIFY your comment as being constructive. Four people have seen and agreed it was not, so it’s not just one’s perspective,” Jenna posted. “Yes, you may point out that I did fail, fine. Point out to me in YOUR comment where you gave me something constructive with your criticism. If your comment had been a concrit, as you claim to be, you would have given me pointers as to where I had failed and how I can improve from that fail. You had given me no such pointers on how to improve. That is where YOU, my dear, HAVE FAILED!”
A week went by, but yet again, the trollette came by, this time leaving her reply to Jenna’s comment.
“And I feel sad that your minds are not open nor matured enough to take criticism or any form. ^_^,” the trollette replied, still not leaving any bases or proofs where in her original comment was ever a constructive criticism. Clearly from her last words that she indirectly confessed her original comment was a plain criticism, NOT a CONSTRUCTIVE criticism as she had claimed in her previous replies.
Jenna was at a lost for words. How could anyone have no shame, even through the anonymity of the Internet, was beyond her. The only possible way not to bash this bitch up was to ignore the trollette, let her have her last words as she seemed to want it, and ban her from ever commenting again.
And to vent her frustrations on the futile attempt to stop and kill the troll, knowing now that there is NOTHING that kills a troll once she had her sights going, she wrote a story about it.
After all, Jenna was a writer.
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A/N: On a fence to post the link to the original thread here. If you want, I'll edit and post it.
5 steps to providing good contructive criticism
wiki constructive criticism