As so many times, you speak out of my heart. To see an established author downtalking a new author is plainly disgusting. We all know what it's like to finally get accepted on one of the moderated archives. I have no doubt that most authors start out by being rejected. Unless I'm the exception *Snape_smirk* Thing is, the ones I'm grieving over had bad reviews from non-authors and some seriously good reviews from highly established authors.
Of course new authors make mistakes. And they may even be overlooked by admins. The thing is, if admins fail to see those minor mistakes, it's a sign that the story is good, that the author has serious potential, isnt it? Because you'll only miss those typos/punctuation errors/etc if you totally get caught up in the story, or am I wrong in assuming that? :-) I've read quite a few stories on Ash that had a number of spellos or punctuation problems that even I recognised, but I could overlook them for the simple reason that the story was absolutely captivating.
I was raving mad about 15 months ago because Ash rejected my story. Once I calmed down and got over my hurt, I sat down and started reading grammar books. That, plus the help of a brilliant beta enabled me to get onto the moderated archives :-)
Yes, I, too, think there is quite a bit of jealousy from writers who do not make the effort to meet the criteria to get on the archives. I just find that so sad. I'm very lucky in that I never got a review like that, but at one stage, if I'd had, it would have stopped me from writing more. And I know there are lots of writers out there who decide not to write any more in the fandom because of one or three such poor reviews. That's why I brought this up on here.
I'm with you on the sock puppet. I leave reviews as I see fit, with my author name. I'd feel positively weird if I had to create a new name to just leave reviews. Oh yes, yahoo groups... *smirk* I use one in particular to just send update notices. :-) And *icon_lurve*
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Date: 2006-07-16 10:18 pm (UTC)Of course new authors make mistakes. And they may even be overlooked by admins. The thing is, if admins fail to see those minor mistakes, it's a sign that the story is good, that the author has serious potential, isnt it? Because you'll only miss those typos/punctuation errors/etc if you totally get caught up in the story, or am I wrong in assuming that? :-) I've read quite a few stories on Ash that had a number of spellos or punctuation problems that even I recognised, but I could overlook them for the simple reason that the story was absolutely captivating.
I was raving mad about 15 months ago because Ash rejected my story. Once I calmed down and got over my hurt, I sat down and started reading grammar books. That, plus the help of a brilliant beta enabled me to get onto the moderated archives :-)
Yes, I, too, think there is quite a bit of jealousy from writers who do not make the effort to meet the criteria to get on the archives. I just find that so sad. I'm very lucky in that I never got a review like that, but at one stage, if I'd had, it would have stopped me from writing more. And I know there are lots of writers out there who decide not to write any more in the fandom because of one or three such poor reviews. That's why I brought this up on here.
I'm with you on the sock puppet. I leave reviews as I see fit, with my author name. I'd feel positively weird if I had to create a new name to just leave reviews. Oh yes, yahoo groups... *smirk* I use one in particular to just send update notices. :-) And *icon_lurve*