#PennedPossibilities 972 — Do you ever have to deal with “trolls” where your writing is concerned? Do you receive hate?

I rehabilitated myself after I burnt-out by writing fan fiction. Lots. Lots and lots. I remember getting some comments that weren't nice, which I could moderate out of the stream. That didn't bother me much. What did bother me was that when I would post the first chapter of a new story, within a minute I would inevitably get down votes. No way the chapter could have gotten read. Somebody either didn't like the characters I'd picked, or had not picked, or competition, or what. Such behavior could affect whether you got feature boxed so the story remained listed on the front page of the site, or whether it got tagged Hot. This on a show that was all about friendship. Go figure.

Pretty sure I never got hate or repeated harassment.

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