>>24548522
>I've heard anon ruining their stories by following readers' advice
I've started to draw some actual intelligent criticism in my comments and reviews (which sucks because I'm not getting braindead five star ratings and it's hurting my ranking, but whatever) and I had to make a firm policy with myself that I will NOT pause my story, go back and edit and fix big plot mistakes, and undo 160k words worth of work at this point. I'm going to finish the story, leave it up as a flawed first work, and take the lessons and feedback and criticism at the end and apply it all towards the NEXT big story.

It's easy to focus on the two people who write intelligently and point out real flaws, and ignore the nearly two hundred silent followers who are looking forward to more of the story as it currently is.

I think having a firm policy ahead of time on how to deal with criticism is important, because it DOES hurt emotionally to have someone tell you you fucked up, especially when it's true. But that's not a good enough reason to stop and throw everything away. A wobbly table is better than eating on the floor.