Talk:Jeff the Killer 2015/@comment-33388104-20180816000153/@comment-25052433-20180816004942

Dear Brad,

I deeply appreciate your kind regards. While I appreciarte you refering to me as "God" at the start, I assure you that is a title that I am only partially worthy. Maybe Saint Kellum would be more fitting, perhaps even Archagel Kellum, but not God, not yet anyway. (One day, with supporters like you though, it could happen!)

I also offer you my most graious thanks for comparing JtK2015 to one of the most masterful and well written works of fiction on the internet. Borrasca is one of those stories that a writer like myself will read and think, "Maybe I can be half this good one day." The author of that story can also easily run laps around me in the arena of fiction writing, so I am double flattered by your statement implying that I was able to even remotely immulate a style on her level of skill.

I further admire your expansive and, might I say, fearless imagination. I am somewhat of a cautious writer, typically relying more on character development, interaction and being very frugal with how far I'm willing to stretch suspension of disbelief. In short, I may lack your creative courage, (ironic considering your screen name I must say) because your suggestions above... well, it is bold indeed. It speaks not only to your boldness, but also to your sense of letting a story just take you where it wants. I mean, your assertion that writing an altered universe in which infection does not exist as a better approach than someone adjusting to affected depth perception while attacking two practically stationary victims... that is very ambitious. Sadly I must admit though, I am perhaps too lazy a writer to fathom the many changes that a world without infection would even look like, considering the massive, impossible-to-calculate effect that infections created, such as leading to pretty much what we call modern medicine. I guess a story where Jeff's doctor used leeches could have been a bit creepier, since, you know, leeches, but in the end I played it so safe and stuck with the real world, the one I live in.

Your closing statement indicating a rigged poll further impressed me, as it shows that you are indeed a capable fiction writer, although I will advise you that overused tropes can get a story Marked for Review if it seems too cliche.

As always, thank you for taking the time out of what is no doubt a busy schedule to critique my story in such a nuanced and flattering fashion. I can tell by your choice to use a video game character as your name and some other cartoon/video game (honestly I don't know the guy) character for your avatar, that your review is strictly a reflection of your refined taste as an artist and reader, as you don't wish to remotely associate your actual person with it.

Yours in professionalism,

K. Banning "Random Resident Evil Character" Kellum