"Confused, Gif, and Target: Anonymous reader who has never commented before  I loved this update, but is it too much to ask that you make the  chapters longer? Also, it's been so long since your last update that I  had to go back and re-read the previous chapter just to know what was  going on. It would be great if you could give us more regular updates so we  don't get confused. Thanks  Comment as Every tired fanfic author  (Plain text with limited HTML  4300 characters left  Comment Cancel seasonofthegeek:  tomfooleryprime:  tomfooleryprime: Writing is a process that often undergoes heavy edits… that includes responding to feedback.  I had no idea this post would resonate with so many people. I let my vitriol surrounding several comments I received on a recent update get to me and it spilled out into .gif form and it's now morphed into the most widely shared thing I've ever posted. So many comments and tags have said things along the lines of, ""This was why I quit writing"" or ""This is why I hate writing fanfic."" And that's soul crushing to hear, but I can relate.  But while there are some crappy and entitled readers, there are also many brilliant ones and I'm so grateful for them. The huge response to this post made me go back and skim through the comments on my old stories, and comments like the one below are about half the reason some of those stories got finished, even if it was months later.  Comments like these are so rare, but when they do come up, they leave me staring at my computer screen, drumming my fingers on the keyboard, struggling to convey my feelings about how their words have touched my heart. These are the comments that take the longest amount of time to respond to and the ones that cause me to wear out my backspace key the fastest.  It's easy to complain, but it's literally just as easy to praise, so I just wanted to take a moment to recognize all those dear and dedicated readers who have propped me up when I wanted to quit. Readers like you are why I keep writing, and why I even feel honored to do it on rare occasion.  And fellow writers, keep your heads up if you can. :)   I know I reblogged this before with the first part but the added content is perfect so I'm reblogging again. To those who have left me these kind of comments, even if I wasn't mentally able to respond at the time, please know how much they mean to me. I have them saved so I can go back and read them when I'm down. Thank you for sticking around."
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