I'm a lurker on the internet by nature until I get over my shyness of just randomly posting. And I just want to say, I've read a few of your works. I haven't commented on a single one for various reasons, the most influential of which was my shyness. (I'm not sure why I'm so shy. I love to comment.) Sorry!
I wanted to let you know that I share almost the same view regarding reviewing as you. Some online authors feel entitled to reviews but how do you argue that without reciprocity? It feels like it'd be along the same lines as readers feeling entitled to regular updates - wrong on every account. Your present analogy is dead on. (...I'll try to comment on your stuff more. Um. .___.)
And my views on internet posting are basically the same as yours, too! As someone who has written for myself for the better part of a decade, I have never felt the overwhelming need to post anything I've created, because that wasn't why I was writing. This is my selfish hobby for me and my eyes alone, and I am perfectly happy not posting. After all, this is my way of participating in fandom - quietly, in my own mad singular corner.
But if I post it, I make it public, and that changes everything. And now I'm feeling a stronger urge to do so, because I get the feeling that I'm slowly not writing just for myself anymore - like you'd said. It's a very telling feeling; you know as soon as you feel it. There's a difference, and I'm glad you pointed that out to those who might not have seen it.
I really like the attitude you take towards concrit, really. That you'd mull it over (I'm the same, I am horrible to be around when I absorb concrit during my English and creative writing classes; I become a tentacle monster demanding for more clarifications as to what had gone wrong) and take it in regardless of how hurt you'd feel. And no one should feel the need to agree with anything; opinions are a right.
(I know I sound kind of arrogant, approving your attitude or whatever, and I totally don't mean that. It's just. It's nice to know you're taking in the comments made to you from people who [probably] didn't mean to hurt you or anything, in the fashion that you do it. Your skin, it is thick!)
You have a way with words that transcend fluency of any language, truly. It shows in all aspects of your writing, be it fiction, opinion posts, rants, etc. Your creativity/insight isn't locked into one set of expressions, and I am so glad I have found your works randomly that one day, while I was linkhopping. I'm multilingual as well, and I have yet to figure out how to creatively express what I want to in one language without sounding like a total foreigner speaking it. Yet you do so with such a distinctive flair it's admirable.
/tl;dr
All in all, thank you for sharing your opinion! It was wonderful to read, and I'm so happy to have found someone with a similar opinion on online posting in general.
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I'm a lurker on the internet by nature until I get over my shyness of just randomly posting. And I just want to say, I've read a few of your works. I haven't commented on a single one for various reasons, the most influential of which was my shyness. (I'm not sure why I'm so shy. I love to comment.) Sorry!
I wanted to let you know that I share almost the same view regarding reviewing as you. Some online authors feel entitled to reviews but how do you argue that without reciprocity? It feels like it'd be along the same lines as readers feeling entitled to regular updates - wrong on every account. Your present analogy is dead on. (...I'll try to comment on your stuff more. Um. .___.)
And my views on internet posting are basically the same as yours, too! As someone who has written for myself for the better part of a decade, I have never felt the overwhelming need to post anything I've created, because that wasn't why I was writing. This is my selfish hobby for me and my eyes alone, and I am perfectly happy not posting. After all, this is my way of participating in fandom - quietly, in my own mad singular corner.
But if I post it, I make it public, and that changes everything. And now I'm feeling a stronger urge to do so, because I get the feeling that I'm slowly not writing just for myself anymore - like you'd said. It's a very telling feeling; you know as soon as you feel it. There's a difference, and I'm glad you pointed that out to those who might not have seen it.
I really like the attitude you take towards concrit, really. That you'd mull it over (I'm the same, I am horrible to be around when I absorb concrit during my English and creative writing classes; I become a tentacle monster demanding for more clarifications as to what had gone wrong) and take it in regardless of how hurt you'd feel. And no one should feel the need to agree with anything; opinions are a right.
(I know I sound kind of arrogant, approving your attitude or whatever, and I totally don't mean that. It's just. It's nice to know you're taking in the comments made to you from people who [probably] didn't mean to hurt you or anything, in the fashion that you do it. Your skin, it is thick!)
You have a way with words that transcend fluency of any language, truly. It shows in all aspects of your writing, be it fiction, opinion posts, rants, etc. Your creativity/insight isn't locked into one set of expressions, and I am so glad I have found your works randomly that one day, while I was linkhopping. I'm multilingual as well, and I have yet to figure out how to creatively express what I want to in one language without sounding like a total foreigner speaking it. Yet you do so with such a distinctive flair it's admirable.
/tl;dr
All in all, thank you for sharing your opinion! It was wonderful to read, and I'm so happy to have found someone with a similar opinion on online posting in general.
All the best,
Aegis