Quote by ChuckEPoo


Butthurt is an attitude. Butface is a name. Lol.

Actually your writing is good. Keep on submitting and I'm sure the recognition will come. Hang in there.

Quote by stormdog100


If you're worried about the readers' opinion of your work, all you can do is post it and take whatever compliments or criticisms come your way, just like everyone else.

If your concern is that the moderator might shitcan your story for being unusual, you need to now that when a story is unusual to or outside of the comfort zone of the mod that draws it, or when we have questions about it possibly pushing the envelope, it is rarely the "One person's trash/treasure" rule.

Very often stories that are "different" or which might push the boundaries (you know, "personality and intrigue"...) in some way engender a very lively discussion in the moderator's forum. We might question if the story is truly erotic, if it gives off a bad vibe, if the writing style is something we can accept, if it comes too close in either fact or intent to crossing into banned content or any number of other things. The mod that draws the story to verify can (and often does) post a thread regarding such stories in the moderator forum, seeking input from the rest of the team. Opinions can (and do) vary widely, but usually we can reach a consensus on whether to publish the story as-is or with minor editing, return the story for major revisions, or outright reject it.

Sometimes we don't agree, and then the senior mods might step in to provide guidance. Other than for routine things like grammar, punctuation, sentence structure and just basic writing quality it's actually quite rare for a story to get returned without more than one set of eyes looking at it.

You'd be amazed at how many stories that end up getting returned for things controversial have been read by most of the team before that decision was made. So, as you can see, there is little to fear from the "One person's trash" conundrum.

Quote by Dani


So you created a thread about how you don't get RR's just to tut-tut about how you don't need RR's because you get paid to write?

LOL.

So much butthurt, I can't compute.

Quote by Burquette


Like I said above, if authors had shopped where I worked, I wouldn't have wanted my name on a RR shelf. I would have gotten nothing done all day except explaining my preferences to the authors that didn't make my list. Which, I would imagine is why the RR remain anonymous.

Quote by Burquette
When I worked at a bookstore, I had a recommended read shelf with my name on it. That's how I see the award here--a mod put my story on their shelf.

At the bookstore, I never had to justify my choices; I could switch them out as often as I liked. It was one of the few delights of holding a minimum wage, crap, customer service job. The mods don't even get the minimum wage part.