Does anyone have contact info for Vincent Berg? If he really wants feedback on his latest story, he needs to activate story comments or allow 'contact author'.
AJ
Does anyone have contact info for Vincent Berg? If he really wants feedback on his latest story, he needs to activate story comments or allow 'contact author'.
AJ
If he really wants feedback
The way he left this forum, I don't think he wants feedback.
I don't think he wants feedback.
In a blog post from today, which now seems to have been deleted, he wrote, "No one has bothered to post suggested corrections".
AJ
wow, his entire post made today, which was fairly long, has been removed. Wonder why?
SunSeeker
he wrote, "No one has bothered to post suggested corrections".
I think that was in reference to typos. But the tone of the blog was not feedback welcoming. I only read it through once so I can't point to specifics, but I think Vincent blamed the drop in score on changes he made based on feedback.
Vincent had become increasingly sensitive to comments on this forum and his stories. I actually thought it was good for his mental health to stop participating here. I felt his anguish.
That was mostly an issue of the time, because for a long time, most of the forum feedback was one group of authors picking fights with other groups of authors, so they was a LOT of animosity. Which is when I stepped away from it, as the sheer negativity becomes demoralizing. Especially at the pace I used to write at (three-full novels a year for roughly 12 years initially), which doesn't leave a lot of time for much else.
Sadly, once I did, it took a long, long time before I ventured back. However, once the news of my recent hospitalization started to spread (I'd asked Lazeez to convey WHY the story was unexpectedly on hiatus) the feedback was so encouraging, especially those telling me how much better the forum was during those more problematic periods, I'm now joined in whole hog, delving into each area, just to see what I've missed all of this time.
But, after the troubles I had with this and other forums, I've mostly gravitated to the question-based Quora.com system, where everyone posts questions, and thus you only answer the questions you have specific expertise in. So since I mostly focus on writing, publishing and publishing trends, both mainstream and independent, I'm mostly asking those most curious about HOW to write (i.e. how to get started, what to focus on, what to draw on) or those with little expense and trying to figure things out on they own.
Again, in just a short time, I've achieve 1M+ active followers, so the information is reaching an appreciative target, and while I've pointed out Bookapy as a potential source of stories, I've shied away from inviting strangers into overwhelming SOL, since usually each time you do, someone comes in, and promptly starts stealing stories and then selling them as their own, as has happened her time and again.
However, I've now found a happier medium, where I'm now active on both, spreading the wealth, as it were, as I've been living in isolation for WAY too long now.
I haven't seen any contact info though he does have a post in his blog today...
https://storiesonline.net/ablog/vincent-berg
Sorry, I just now stumbled across this post.
I'm not sure why, yet I kept activating my comments, and they kept deactivating comments. Then Lazeez set them a time or two, before 'resetting' them, when it finally set.
So for a long period, I COULDN'T access any comments, then when I finally did, I was mostly overwhelmed by them in mass. But more feedback is always better than no feedback, as that's what's most wonderful about SOL.
For most authors, especially novelists, you write and write, yet rarely get ANY direct feedback, as the ONLY feedback you receive are your royalties. Yet here on SOL, the tendency is to read the entire story for free, commenting on each chapter, only purchasing the story you just read, for free, to encouraging you to continue writing. In short, it's a complete reversal of the typical publishing model.
I mean, getting paid is great, yet knowing which aspects of your writing is most valued tells you more than any royalties does, if readers regularly skip over whole segments of your stories.
So, your feedback is welcome. And to a large degree, beyond those issues mentioned, after so long away from SOL, I'd mostly forgotten the whole process of how to post stories.
As of today, as this number has been steady for the whole past week, I'm currently at 70 comments, so the feedback system is definitely working as intended.