Good lord, *don't* encourage her!

It looked as though the "I get no applause" author was going to sink quietly into the ML archives without comment. We should be so lucky. Today, another list member posted this gem of a comment:

what I want
to say is that it isn't necessarily how you write but what you choose to
write.

Snipping a little bit, she continues:

(Please don't take this as criticism because that isn't my intent!  I'm just
making an observation that who you write is as important as how you write,
and not everyone will read everything because of that.)

So remember kiddies, reader praise has nothing to do with talent, originality, creativity, and technical mastery. Also, onlist whining about lack of praise is only part of the solution. Make sure you're also writing the most popular pairing(s) in the fandom - that's the real ticket to getting f/b.

Good lord, I've only posted five entries in this lj and I already feel like I'm coming off like a bitch.

Then again, there are so many things in fandom to bitch about...