Frankly, I'm shocked · 5:04am Apr 2nd, 2014
"The Ballad of the Last Arch-Magus" has such... depressing numbers. It's the most "literary" thing I've done in a while. Yet I get better responses to quick clop.
I think it bothers me mos because I put in genuine effort and I wanted people to say at least "you wasted the effort because of..." and then explain. I agonized over the stanzas, rearranged a few a few times, rewrote a couple a few times, busted out the rhyming dictionary and did all I could to
dodge slant rhymes (even though they were judged good enough for Emily Dickinson.) That's 80 stanzas, of eight lines each. 640 lines, with a consistent structure and a scheme A-B-C-B-D-E-F-E.
I thought at least some of my watchers actually liked literary works like poems. I mean, maybe the subject matter scares some folks but I promise I do hate Fall of Equestria and what I write is against it.
Won't anyone give it a chance?
What can we say? Sex sells.
And this fandom is so full of sex it's a fucking brothel.
1976095
You're not wrong. Admittedly, it's good in some amount. But this seems a bit excessive. I try to do more drama and comedy than sex. Even my sex stories have drama and comedy.
1976123
Well, you do a damn fine job. I came for the clop, but I stayed for the plot.
There's not many authors on this site that can drag me kicking and screaming into their story telling.
Especially when all I'm seeking is a quick fix.
You wasted the effort because this fandom has a median age of 20 and doesn't give two shits about literary fiction. :|
1976132
Thank you for the kind words. I like to try a mix of things, but I spent a lot of money, and time, in literature classes at college and a university so I kind of have a bias in that direction.
1976667
I was hoping that was not the case but my greatest fear is you may be correct.
1976921
That does explain why you can write so well. Does it have anything to do with Olde Luna speak too?
1977010
I started writer her like that WHILE taking an Elizabethan drama class.
1976921
Well, it's something.
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1976923
Well, I care, I'm just swamped. :B
1978048
I know. I expected your comment to happen far later. I meant my other watchers.