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Thank you, and who knows, I didn't have any expectations of having an audience here, and I certainly don't have any for AO3, either. Unfortunately, it was the tipping point, I just don't see any point to the rule when they all blatantly, openly, violate it anyway. Regardless, I wish you the...
I wanna thank all of you for this, and I agree with all of you writer to writer as well. Which is why I've saved all of my writing, and I also feel no shame over what I have written (I've certainly improved a lot since when I started); but all the same I wish to move on. I am a man of action...
Not sure where else to ask this without starting a new thread, but I plan on editing out my stories. So, would putting up a notice on my older stories be considered necroing? I'd like to give some of my readers a heads-up before moving anything. I'm assuming I'd have to limit it, however.
Honestly, as a writer on here, I like to use the tags to inform the reader on the content of my fics. For example: I could add 'psychological horror', but not all psychological horror will have depictions of gore inside, so now I have to add a gore tag. Same for other stuff that a reader should...
There's also the issue of a character's charisma or lack thereof. Often, I will drop a book if I don't like a character, even if I love the writing. An easy example of this is Gene Wolfe's, The Book of the New Sun series, which I can't enjoy; simply because the main character is easy to dislike...