Originally posted by: jjsofand writers should understand that this is a PUBLIC FORUM, means everything in this forum should be accessible by all the members of it... and if they are uncomfortable with the public, i don't think this is the right place for them to expose their creations...one thing that depressed me a lot is... i felt that the readers are losing their self respect...i wish there should be a proper relationship between the reader and the writer... a healthy one...a reader should have a mentality of appreciate or criticize, what they read something and writers should not take it personally ...
Originally posted by: lazyleavesA private blog is a personal belonging. Do we share our personal belonging in the public? No. And even if we do, we make sure no one can use it without our permission.
The same goes for blogs. Why will an author give her personal belonging to someone he/she is not aware of? An author would love to know their readers, but there is a condition here. How will the author interact with readers if they are not even aware of their existence?
If you don't like to comment on the thread as you are too scared to put your thoughts in to words on a public forum, it is quite understandable (I was a silent reader for 6 months!)
But isn't the PM option always available to let the author know that there is someone somewhere in the world silently reading your stories? Give us a review. If the readers stop giving us reviews how will we, as authors be motivated?
Why is the silence broken only after the author goes blogging? Why suddenly they PM after the author goes blogging?
This really breaks the author's heart when they get PMs/comments like - 'Hey plzzz give me your blog link' without saying even once, without using even a single adjective about the story.
Place yourself in the author's shoe and think how bad he/she feels when they get such PMs or comments and if they don't get the blog access they have essays to write on how horrible the writer is but still not utter a single word about their works.
It is just 🥺
I am sure if IF had stricter plagiarism and no copy rules, no author would leave IF because there is nothing as enjoyable as IF
I agree!
I never commented on your works. Read them all without dropping one word as a comment, never told if I like your stories or not. It's simply wrong to ask for d blog link then. So I didn't.
Not that I am a silent reader. I simply didn't comment. So if I, as a reader, choose to be silent, as a writer one has all the rights to decide with whom to share their intellectual creations.
When the writers put in all the hard- work to write, one comment acknowledging the same from the reader will not do any harm. But, yet again, it's for one to decide what is to be done. If readers decide to not comment, they should be silent all the while and should not ask for the blog link as well.
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