Board Thread:Writer's Showcase/@comment-4665292-20180608193616/@comment-5733573-20180612143722

VerminGoat wrote: Jdeschene wrote: I'm pretty sure the "first letter of every paragraph" thing is at least looked down upon, if not outright disallowed on this site. What the... if something like that is disallowed on this site, fuck this site. Like, what if it had come about accidentally? What if the first letter of every paragraph in a story spelt "trolololololol" but the author insisted it was accidental?

It's not like the reader has to read the first letter of every paragraph to get the story or anything, since the relevant bits are simply that there is a demon and whatnot; the demon's identity is not relevant beyond the references, and if those aren't picked up on, nothing is really lost. It was more or less just a creative exercise to have the letters spell something, and I thought it was fun for that to be the demon's name.

As for it being too vague... well, it's not the vaguest story on this site. It's also not that vague, since again, the interpretations people had were all at least somewhat how it's meant to be interpreted. If you can't appreciate stuff that crosses some vagueness line, that's fine. Obviously people have different tastes and opinions.

I guess I could've made it more clear or otherwise better, but honestly, I'm happy with how it turned out, unlike some of my earlier stuff. If it's an accident, then no one cares. But yours was intentional, which is, frankly, an amateurish technique that you clearly wanted to draw attention to.

It sounds to me like you didn't want a sincere review. You wanted praise. I wish I felt strongly enough about your story to tell you it's the best thing on here, but I don't and it's certainly not. Best of luck.