User blog comment:BenFugman/Working through heckin' rewrites of KATD.../@comment-24101790-20170512040214/@comment-24101790-20170513130103

"I didn't post this blog entry to insist that the story be restored in the form I initially submitted it, mostly, as I said, this blog entry was to vent." The issue is that you're venting on something that currently you've put no visible work into. If you had done something (like revising or editing up to this point) before whining about " heckin' Philistine admins on this site". It makes you seem like you're throwing a temper-tantrum rather than editing your story. "You're not making yourself any bit more likeable in these comments, by the way." Being likable isn't my goal here, it's more to give my reasoning as to why, in this scenario, you need to put in work and edit/revise your story rather than try to make excuses like "Basically some people could look at my true story of the Black Eyed Children knocking at my door as being cliché, or tropey, because others have given very similar accounts, but to me it just indicates that the BEC follow certain proceedures when they aproach people". You'll notice that my main issue with your story is that despite being true, it's not effectively told or helps put the audience in the character's shoes or being descriptive. There are other accounts on this site that also claim to be true that also go a step further in making the descriptions effective or at least writing it in such a way that you can relate empathetically to the character. Yours doesn't really do that as of now.