Desiderius Price

I do tend to give reviewers the benefit of the doubt, that they intend good, even if they’re expressing it rather poorly. I can easily be wrong. Entirely okay. My style would start it off like “Footsteps; {name}’s ears twitched.” But, that’s more my style, which I’ve evolved/refined over time, some with input from others. But a “It’s wrong, lemme rewrite it...” No, they can write their own, or, once you’re publishing, write a fanfic in their favorite style* * As an aside, this leads to an interesting question once published. If author doesn’t remove all of their stories in the said story-universe and somebody else starts to post fanfiction in the archive, does the author’s works remain in originals, or should they move them into the fanfic archive?

For some people, this is a phase of their life and they move on. In the case of DA/Magus/etc, IIRC they wanted to go off grid, and they’re obviously been successful. Though, I wish they’d jump back in from time to time, give us an update with their hurdles. DA had become such a regular reviewer to one of my stories that I even “purely-coincidentally” gave a side-character an inspired nickname, but I don’t know if she’s even seen it .

As I try to turn a lemon into lemonade … understanding that most here aren’t professionals, including our reviewers. Assuming this reviewer isn’t simply trolling, then the other way to take this is that if you can entice more feedback from this person to try to find out what things strike them as odd, or poorly worded, or confusing. It might be valid to consider, maybe not – though their demand is unreasonable. Personally, I don’t have an editor/beta, so my own writing has rough spots, so that’s why my second reaction to such a review would be to solicit more feedback to figure things out. (Of course, my first reaction is one best to be kept away from the keyboard.)

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Hey, focus on the fact that it is a review, which I know are rare here, and they like the story.

Well, with his taste more for pork.…

Family reunions were likely not the same afterwards….

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“oopsie” Yeah, I think these characters might have grounds to sue us for emotional distress…

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Relatives tend to sanitize the obituaries, though there’s occasionally an exception and you’ll typically see those listed under “odd news”.

Damn….that’s a trojan horse @JayDee Has the internet forgotten the story or is it still lingering out there by now?

Update to this case …. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOTlj4MARbo

(I’m not a mod, just replying so it shows up in several of the mods alerts because I’m seeing that activity is high this morning.) Several questions they’ll likely ask: 1) age of the celebrity, 18+?, and 2) Is this minor a real person or fiction?

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(again), though, will there be paper/hardback editions?

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