Myra's Little Book Shop, Redux

Oh, wow!

Mr Carvohi, I'm so sorry. You shouldn't have posted this. You were in the midst of a major psychotic episode here. You should have someone watching you when these episodes happen, and never access a computer. I feel so bad for you. I'm a huge fan. I hope you're feeling better soon.

Confusion

If there is so much confusion about your plot and characters, its not the readers fault but its yours. So sorry your brilliant and incisive prose was misinterpreted so badly but rather than whine you should look in the mirror.

We writers feel like we give birth

to our stories, and they are our babies. Readers sometimes think they are just turds. Go figure. In the end, you need to write for yourself. No matter what anyone thinks of SwingerJoe's stories, you have to grudgingly admire his tenacity and willingness to suffer the slings and arrows of his detractors. (Or he is truly a masochist, a cuck masochist, a wimp, cuck masochist, or maybe just a guy with a sense of humor and a lot of self esteem, or maybe a narcissist? A cuck narcissist, a wimp.... ) You get the idea. Joe can take the heat. In the end, it makes not an iota of difference what someone comments about your story. At least they take the time to comment.

I think i have to change my name to Lexipoo

@ the author.

No offense Carvohi, but I think you may need to lighten up a little. There is a difference between telling commenters to respect you as a writer, and complaining that they got the characters in your story wrong. Writing and reading is a matter of interpretation. People have thousands of different interpretations about the Bible, Shakespeare, The Art of War, etc. You don't get to dictate how people perceive your characters. It is up to them to see what they see based on your writing. Everyone will see something different.

Granted, many people will try to add their own endings, put words in your mouth, or whatever. But if they read the exact words that YOU put on paper, then you can't tell them what to see after the fact.

I like you as an author. I like many of your stories. I don't agree with foolscap that you have a twisted sense of relationships, or men and women. Everybody has a view based on their experiences. But this little rant of yours comes off as a bit of a temper tantrum. It comes off as thin skinned. Chill out. Keep writing. Those who get it, will get it. Congratulate them. Those who don't, won't ever get it. Just live with that.

BTW, I'm changing my name to Lexipoo. It seems to be catching, thanks to my online lover.

Been a while

So I haven't read or commented on anything here for quite a while, six months or so maybe? But since carvohi here decided to email me recently to ask me to come back after wanting to pick a fight with me over comments I made on a year or more old stangstar story, I decided to take him up on his request to read his latest every. So let's see here.....

*Several minutes of uncontrollable laughing later*

This is priceless. This is the thinnest skinned whining about criticism I've seen here in a while. And coming from an author who has personally insulted me and my wife, given my email address out to readers to asked them to harass me, and been a champion of free speech when he took my critiques of his stories as "censorship" this is fantastic. Keep up the psychotic break here man, don't do anything logical like turn off anon comments or voting. Take your ball and go home while whining like a spoiled child about it. But make sure you let us all know how wounded and persecuted you are.


(Free advice. The readers in other sections aren't going to be /less critical/ of your poor plotting and shitty characters. They might not be as rabid as the btbers, but they also don't auto rate trash like 'hearth and home' and the gang rape one you wrote highly because you're mean to a woman in them. Shockingly, they judge stories by things like writing and plot. In other words you're doomed.)

Okay, Okay.

I got the fact that Curtis was a jerk when I read the story the first time. The match of spoiled rich girl and the self-centered nerd seemed doomed. What delighted me with the story was that the "unfaithful" wife was really more faithful than the "wronged" husband. He was too caught up with himself and his own goals to pay attention to his family.

What was misleading, if anything, was the title; it focuses our attention on Myra. Face it, Myra and her bookshop function only to get Curtis and Zoey back together. The reason I gave the first story only a 4 was that Curtis did not appear to have fully extracted his head from his ass. Indeed, had he been able to do that earlier, say when first two kids were born, Zoey might never have turned to Brandon in the first place. The only virtue Myra seemed to offer was keeping her affair OUT of the family home, something Zoey had failed to do.

I enjoyed the story, I got that Curtis needed to get his head out of his ass. What I do not "get" is why the story needed to be so long and why Curtis has only got a partial clue by the end. I think Zoey should have made squirm a bit. A healthy dose of self-recognition could only help this guy.

@lexipoo

That's my man! Of course you must change your name. Do it for me, big guy. Sadly, you are taken in real life, so I will shower you with anodic affection. You see, everyone now acknowledges that you belong to me. It was ineludible. You have officially reached iconic status. Admit it, you can't resist my elocution and rhetoric. We'll be a charming couple. Kimi.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the LW

Here shows up the most aggravating thing since Ants at the picnic !
What cowpile did you crawl out from under this time Frontlinecaster ?
Come to heap praise on a person feeling down , NO , not FLC !
I started to think one of those mysterious death and rape threats you say you get constantly may have gotten you, but alas , like Keith Richards and cockroaches , you would survive a nuclear war !
Hummm , haven't heard from SharedSign lately , in fact no one has ever saw the two of you in a room at the same time , hummm.
Please feel free to go away more often and for much longer .

Awww

I had hoped you had died too Crkcppr. Glad to know you cared enough to think of me.

Thank Carvo here for my return. He's emailed me repeatedly asking me to come read his stories, even after all this time he couldn't get enough of me.

You know if

You know if there aren't people who hate your story you have failed just as much as I'd there weren't people who loved it. But if you are complaining that everyone missed the point I'm sorry but that is indeed on you. I do remember wondering why he didn't seem to care who he ended up with as long as his physical needs were met. But, I never got close to concluding that was your goal for the theme of the tale

I like entertainment

whether from a story
or the comments

thanks
and thanks

Spot on

I thought he was a dead shit too. I still can't accept in real life that someone as nice as Zoey would take such a piece of shit back let alone sign a prenup. I would have run for the hills. Ken

Lololol, fucking dumb cuck faggot can't handle being told what a dumb fucking shit brain cuck he is?? TOO BAD!!! Put a gun in your mouth and pull the trigger you fucking sick shit slurping, cum eating, nigger loving fuck! No one ever wants to read your fucking dumb cuck garbage again!

Sad author is sad

For an amateur, wannabe author, you sure spit a lot of venom on the very people you're writing for. The only reason you actually have people reading your horseshit is because it has been posted on a free site. I doubt you'd sell anything if you did try to publish this crap. You keep the comments open and then complain when people don't like the shit you're selling. If you really want to write for yourself then close the ratings and the comments. Otherwise stop whining like the characters you write and take the punches from your readers like a man. Learn to respect your readers first. They are the ones you're writing for.

This is just pathetic

People didn't like your story, grow the fuck up.

Went Over My Head Too

I liked the story. Have it a 5. But I would think you'd see the fact that practically everyone missed your point about his character as something for you to learn as a storyteller, not a reason to chastise your readers, especially ones who took a minute to write.

communication

The burden of communication is on the communicator.
They're not understanding you?
It's your fault for not being clear.
If that many people miss your point then you need to do better at expressing it.

Please submit the story you mentioned

You've one of the top writers on this site, whose written some incredible stories. Don't let the 'gotta BTB every time' crowd deter you.

Pretty pathetic

An apologist for a cheating woman.

Hey Jed, don't make it bad...

There are two things that I unapologetically admit to skimming: (1) Long, drawn out How We Met parts of a story, if the're not directly relevant to the story, and (2) Long drawn out sex scenes ("Oh baby, fuck meeeee, you're the best in the world").
In the Myra story, I did think that Curtis was one screwed-up dude, particularly in relation to Zoey. But I figured that's how you intended to portray him. In general, there's a lot to like in a Carvohi story. There is a lot of originality and creativity. The Worm Doth Turn is in my opinion, a classic.