Hey Liz! (: I was just lurking around and I read this post and wanted to comment to it. I hope that you don't mind. First, I wanted to say that I have read quite a few of your stories, as well as other folks and I never had a problem with your unreliable narrator from "Mar's Rising". I understood what you were doing with Xander there and in "Dismay" and I really enjoyed those stories. As far as "Into the Desert" goes, I thought it was an excellent story on Buffy, Willow, and Xander's friendship. So I kind of have to agree with a2zmom when I say that sometimes it's the reader's fault if they get so caught up on the mental idea of their favorite character doing this or this instead of just relaxing and reading the writer's story and getting the message that the writer was trying to convey in said story.
As far as feedback goes.... Well, I'm in the middle of my first fanfic story that I've ever posted anywhere so I don't know if I'm the best person to give my opinion on that. As far as constructive criticism goes I think thats good. In fact, you gave me some that I really appreciated and found helpful. Negative FB can also be good, I think, if it helps the writer improve. I think any Writer who's worth anything at all wants to improve. You know! wants to get better at it with each story they write, and any FB thats helps that along is good for the writer. I think it's non-sensible flaming thats pretty useless. I don't think that you should have to defend everything that you write to said reader though, just because they didn't see or appreciate where your going with a story. I think to some degree stories are like art. There are some stories or art some people like and there are some types they don't. If you get a critique on your work where the commenter is giving you FB you can use to make it better than great. If they don't or can't then it's really no use worrying about it.
Oh! By the way, I'm going to friend you if thats okay?
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As far as feedback goes.... Well, I'm in the middle of my first fanfic story that I've ever posted anywhere so I don't know if I'm the best person to give my opinion on that. As far as constructive criticism goes I think thats good. In fact, you gave me some that I really appreciated and found helpful. Negative FB can also be good, I think, if it helps the writer improve. I think any Writer who's worth anything at all wants to improve. You know! wants to get better at it with each story they write, and any FB thats helps that along is good for the writer. I think it's non-sensible flaming thats pretty useless. I don't think that you should have to defend everything that you write to said reader though, just because they didn't see or appreciate where your going with a story. I think to some degree stories are like art. There are some stories or art some people like and there are some types they don't. If you get a critique on your work where the commenter is giving you FB you can use to make it better than great. If they don't or can't then it's really no use worrying about it.
Oh! By the way, I'm going to friend you if thats okay?
LMZ