Oki, I have a long @$$ rant so, just like, good luck I guess 
I think 85%-95% of the community love reading stories and I am apart of that, however it might be belittling. There are so many well written stories with good characters, good plot, good directing, grammar, and then over here us growing and “newbie” authors are trying to produce a piece of writing we hope is “good enough.” And, although most say the internet is an escape, society is on here too, judging every word, every click, and every post/like. So we all know what it’s like, and on the forums most of us bond over that because we all understand it but even though we understand something doesn’t necessarily mean we know exactly what each other is feeling. For example you and I have reached a place where we both feel no one will read our stories and kind of like, “meh, I have everything planned I just have no motivation” (literally my life XD) anyway, this is what it’s like. But don’t expect to have the best grammar, the best directing, the best plot, or characters or anything. If you put hard work into it, genuine readers will read the story and be interested.
For example, @/NDwrites has written a story that has good directing, grammar, plot, and characters. However, she has never been featured and hasn’t reached over 5,000 reads yet, but she worked hard on her story and she has genuine readers, like me. And every story has some flaws (sorry, Niamh, if you see this), and with her story I feel like there are a lot of cliches. But, she makes up for that with the twists and turns and the relationships she has the reader build with the characters and that’s really important. Another flaw might be some grammar/punctuation mistakes (only like 3 so far, that I’ve noticed) but that doesn’t matter because the rest there aren’t any mistakes. The small mistakes can be fixed with good plot, which many have. Including you!
Anyway, to conclude this, there will always be haters, judgers, and rude people who will criticize everything you do. Especially if there is one mistake in a well written story, and however that may be sad, it’s true. I really hope you do continue because I would love to see your story come to life. Good luck, and sorry for ranting
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