Despite my best efforts to only interact with pictures of video games, I've been forced to follow this drama in real time as it unfolded on Twitter, and it's been awkward and painful.
If you're feeling masochistic, I also recommend this book...
...in which the essayist, a young and moderately popular YA author, talks about what it was like to feel forced to admit to being sexually assaulted on social media only to then experience an incredible wave of backlash from her actual family.
My own experience as a published author hasn't been great either. I'll probably post about it here eventually, but I'm not quite ready. There's a lot of cognitive dissonance involved. I'm grateful to have been given this opportunity, yet at the same time I wish that all of the feedback I've received weren't so overwhelmingly... not negative, necessarily, but petty and inappropriate.
That being said, I know there are a lot of fans of your writing in the world, and I'm definitely one of them. Even if it's not now, I hope you'll feel comfortable sharing your fic from 2015 one day, even if you post it anonymously and with comments disabled. You're such a fantastic writer, and I get the feeling that a story like this has the potential the speak to any number of people in fandom who aren't seeing themselves in mainstream fiction.
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If you're feeling masochistic, I also recommend this book...
https://groveatlantic.com/book/kathleen-hale-is-a-crazy-stalker/
...in which the essayist, a young and moderately popular YA author, talks about what it was like to feel forced to admit to being sexually assaulted on social media only to then experience an incredible wave of backlash from her actual family.
My own experience as a published author hasn't been great either. I'll probably post about it here eventually, but I'm not quite ready. There's a lot of cognitive dissonance involved. I'm grateful to have been given this opportunity, yet at the same time I wish that all of the feedback I've received weren't so overwhelmingly... not negative, necessarily, but petty and inappropriate.
That being said, I know there are a lot of fans of your writing in the world, and I'm definitely one of them. Even if it's not now, I hope you'll feel comfortable sharing your fic from 2015 one day, even if you post it anonymously and with comments disabled. You're such a fantastic writer, and I get the feeling that a story like this has the potential the speak to any number of people in fandom who aren't seeing themselves in mainstream fiction.