I mostly agree; I don’t like cliches, but I don’t have enough energy to actively hate them. I save my hate, preserve it, for people or things that truly deserve it. ![]()
If people want to read something, they read it, it’s a free country. If they don’t like it, they don’t have to read it. Read what you want, don’t read what you don’t want.
I might say, in my true narcissistic nature, that my story is more creative than 90% of the stories on this app. That doesn’t mean that I will be, or even deserve to be, in the top 10% of reads. Creativity isn’t necessarily a measure of success, there are so many aspects that will pull a story together and make it good or popular.
People saying “tHiS sToRy DoEsN’t DeSeRvE sO mAnY rEaDs” are rude and need a hobby lmao, you wouldn’t have time to complain about stories you don’t like if you were busy reading ones you do like. ![]()
I’d disagree with this though, there are lots of new ideas to do, but they involve reaching to the very limits of the imagination. Most stories that have to be based on the present reality, though, will have overlap with similar ones, that’s pretty inevitable.
Closing note: If people are telling you that you don’t deserve so many reads, they’re probably jealous.
Haters gonna hate.