User blog comment:Raidra/How do you feel when one of your stories is narrated?/@comment-28266772-20170628143743

I'm... mixed. On one hand some of my stories have been read and shared by as many as 40,000 people (via this narration here). And that's great, but there's something weird about seeing something I make get shunted all over the place without any contact whatsoever. So yes, I'm honored, but I'm also cautious about my story being put "out there" without me knowing about it, or without me being credited, and also I'm unhappy that sometimes people can be tempted to misrepresent the stories as true (as in the previously linked narration).

Also I have a general frustration at narrators' total disinterest in contacting authors (either before or after narration). It really is minimal effort to drop a comment. Lots of them do, and that's great, but just as many don't. I regularly google myself to find narrations, reposts, etc. and keep an eye on it all. Sometimes it's cool and I find things like this  and I love it, but I've also found my stories reposted without credit, and sometimes miscredited in a clear attempt at plagiarism.