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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lela" data-source="post: 1210726" data-attributes="member: 1216">I've read a lot of Story Hour's (you once even termed me a professoinal SH reader) and, while thinking about your worries about dark posts, I've put something together.  Several others have said that that's much of the reason they read your work.  In fact, that's exactly it.  People read your work partly because of the grittiness and, dare I say it, gore.  Others read P-Kitty partly because of the high level and mix of log/story style.  Old One for high level feeling at low levels, Sep for philisophical conflicts, or Wulf for hack'n slash action.  While there are billions of other reasons to read these Story Hours (I could write an essay on any of them and tons of others; I have in some cases), people show up for specific reasons.  This means that they're showing up for your style (or some facit thereof) and others can have different areas.  Don't try to change your style to match someone elses or even avoid someone else's.  Take only the critisim  you feel works witth your stile to heart and ignore the rest.  If it's a deal breaker for them, so what?  They can find a niche they like somewhere else (I might have a recomendation or 4 for anyone interested).  There's another side to this though.  If you don't feel comfortable talking about aspects you, personally, consider blood, urine, and anal spearing too much then don't write about it.  If a reader is really looking for that, someone else, somewhere, will have it.  All you need to do is write what you feel like writing.  It's up to the reader to decide if he likes it.  No one's forcing him to read it.  Of course, since things are never simple, there's a thrid side to this.  If you want critisim (and it seems you do) then go ahead and ask for it.  Those posting know you don't have to take it to heart.  They're here already and trust you to do what's best for both the story itself and your desire as an artist.   Ready for a small paradox?  By the logic of the post above, you don't have to take what I said to heart.  Of course, if you choose to completely reject it, you must take it to heart.  By taking it to heart you can choose to reject it. . .  Remember that we're already here.  You don't have to win us over. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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