But...lately...I have noticed a lot of writers coming out to announce that they are writers...
But, then they stumble backwards.
They take back what they said.
They put out that they only dabble. They only blog. They only do a little something.
It is not in a fishing way.
Rather, it is in an authentic sense of embarrassment, as if they made a mistake by trying to claim that they were a writer.
Why?
Because they aren't...professional?
I would like to approach that now, because there are so many people trying to strive for achievements and success within writing, but they are not understanding what is a writer.
If you have a pen and paper, a typewriter, a computer, or some other thing that you can make words with, then you can be a writer.
This does not sully the title. This does not make it mean less.
Whether you are good at it, or are seemingly incapable of a full plot and character development, you can be a writer.
Because writing, while it is telling the story of some person's journey, is the writer's journey.
Sounds like a book! ha!
Maybe I'll write a book about writing...
Sounds boring...
Anyways...
The problem that is also becoming imminent is the view that readers and reviewers have of writers.
It is no longer in the control of writers as to what makes a writer...or even what breaks a writer...
There are bullies out there, snobs too, who claim high sophistication in a sense that they are entitled to making their opinions into a fact that writers have no control over their title or their book's self worth, because it is published.
For those of you who have never published a piece of work for the whole world to read, knowing that copies of it exist that can no longer be altered for the sake of making it better, and the art style is something you have cultivated over the years like a plant...
Where was I going with this? I zoned out.
Oh yea.
Those of you who have never felt this connection to a literary piece crafted by your own mind, the feeling of publishing a story for everybody to see...it's frightening.
Some authors are completely paranoid about their work.
Some authors are pretty chill.
I have to tell you. I have become...okay at best.
It's not to say I am paranoid.
But I cannot help but look upon my older work...and the farther I go along my works, the more I want to alter and fix things in my older works.
I cannot though, because it is out there. It is done.
Even so, there is still this connection I have to it. It was my creation. It has my name, my feelings, my inner turmoil and in a way it's my baby.
Yea...I wouldn't really call A Dragon's Curse my baby...but you get the point.
The point is that when you write something like that, you put a piece of yourself into it. When you put that out there for people, it is frightening.
Great artists back in the day were trained to deal with criticism. Leonardo da Vinci was trained just like any other painter. He went through many challenges of criticism of his works (which were usually finishing touches of the teacher's work until he started painting on his own).
So, when is it that the snobs can call themselves professionals with all the rights to judge these books?
Yes, criticism is a good thing.
But slamming an author's work is terrible.
Slamming an author for defending a work is terrible.
I am getting to a point here.
This is not to say that authors should be allowed to remove, delete or rebute negative reviews. On the contrary, they should be able to read them.
But with the way many trollish reviewers have acted, it has given authors more reason to reject the common reviewer in lieu of normal and actual readers.
Given that writing is not something you can do to try and receive love from fans, it is not a cop out when an author makes a stand against a negative review claiming that a book slanders things that are never ever ever ever ever mentioned in the book.
Example?
Can't remember the author name, but story she wrote. Her first story...pretty controversial...
She got slammed by a trollish reviewer who stated that her book made a mockery of PTSD, laughed at domestic abuse and shamed victims of rape.
With what I know of the book, these things are bullshit.
1) Character A has PTSD, it is a character issue that is dealt with through the book, not mocked.
2) Domestic abuse is mentioned as a minor piece in the story's plot, not a joke.
3) There was never any rape. How do you get rape from no rape?
I need to read that book thoroughly. Because what else I've heard about it was that it was awesome. Wish I remembered author's and book's names.
FUCK!
Anyways...where was I again?
Ah yes, troll reviewers.
These reviewers defend their words with statements such as "Reviews are for readers! Not for writers!"
This bothers me...
This fucking bothers me...
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
I really just need to chill with this, but it bothers me too much. I can't not be bothered by this injustice.
If I ignored it, I would fall into a nonsensical trap of allowing this to be.
Though, actively there is nothing I can really do about it.
This makes me feel kind of helpless.
But, the fact that reviewers think this way, and that readers (whatever number of them have responded) agree with them, means that authors have no chance in the stance of what is right and wrong with reviewers who don't know what the fuck they are talking about.
I mean, these are bad apple reviewers.
But, when you look at the way these people review books, with ridiculous thoughts and nonsense...
You begin to grow afraid of the tragedy that they might get a hold of your book.
They might find and slander your name.
Because it does not stop at reviews.
Authors who stand to defend their books, much like the aforementioned author did for the aforementioned book, you become a Black Listed Author...
I believe the initials are BBA...
What the fuck does that stand for anyways?
Blacklisted
Book
Author
or...
Blacklisted
Blasted
Author
Blacklisted
Bananas
Association
Boring
Blacklisted
Authors
Bassline
Blacklist of
Authors
I have no idea...this shit is stupid...
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