Talk:The Decision/@comment-26921684-20151118022350/@comment-25024572-20151118133006

Before I start saying anything, I'd like to thank you for commenting. I do appreciate people commenting on my stories. I'd also like to add that, for the most part, my philosophy on reviews, comments, opinions, etc. is that the reader is usually right. As an author, you'd have a bias, but the readers don't. However, I'll take exception to this right now, and disagree with you, since no one else has mentioned a certain thing you did. That thing being the monsters.

In case you're wondering, they're supposed to be zombies. Which I did hint at a few times, with:

"You hear them, on the other side of the door, moaning and scraping."

"...who you had to kill  to survive for this long. (No, not who. What. Those…things…weren’t your friends, weren’t your family, wasn’t the one you loved. They might have had their faces, but they didn’t have their souls. Right?)"

"...having those things come in and eat you..."

Granted, I didn't come right out and say it, but, here's where my whole spiel on my philosophy on readership comes in, that's not the point. See, I hate to be that guy who says, "You just don't understand my work," but, in this case, you did kind of miss the point. The monsters weren't the point. They were there to force the main character into a decision. I felt like if I came right out and said, "zombies," it'd take a bit away from the story. You weren't supposed to think "zombie story" you were supposed to think of it as more of a story in which the main character is forced into a dilemma that is left open-ended. You're welcome to your opinion on that, but I personally think that if I had said what the monsters were, it wouldn't have worked as well.

And as for a beginning that established what was going on, far as I can tell, there was one. The main character is trapped in a room with monsters on the other side of the door, and is debating whether or not commit suicide. Maybe I'm biased or missing something, but I think that was established pretty well.

I will agree with you on the whole "live/die was incredibly annoying" thing. Looking back, it wasn't necessary, and ended up being annoying.

And thank you for saying the ending was good. That was mainly what this story was based around: having a story with an open ending. So I'm glad you did like that.

So, once again, thank you for leaving a comment on the story. While I didn't agree with a majority of what you had to say, I still do like that you left an opinion on the story. I like getting reviews, be they positive or negative. They help me improve as a writer, and let me know what people like and don't like from my writing.