May1st
Hehe I've clicked on your name and somehow got linked to your novels. Thanks for showing me how to answer people's comments on the novel; I'm not very good at mastering new interfaces.
I've told you up front you probably won't like my novel. Please don't feel obligated to read it because of this exchange.
DaddyFishGotBigPp
Yes, I made some a couple of suggestions in the original post.
FattyBai
I didn't complain about having to read stuff I dislike. I complained about the difficulty of browsing through the endless two-column list of novels when trying to find something I'd like.
I'm not asking for the 'novels' to be purged. In my original post, I'm asking Quidian to create separate sections for nonfiction, poetry, and works under 5K in length. Maybe a separate short story section could include short stories as well as novels that have just been begun.
Clean my eyes with bleach? Jesus. Have you tried it? You sure it works?
Yep. everyone has to start somewhere, and it's best to start out in private. I've kept my first novel for one reason only: to remind myself how bad I was when I started out. I've never shown it to people, and I never will; it would be too embarrassing for me, and an insult to them.
I'm going to go all-out philosophical on you here:
Everyone has just one life, and every life consists of a certain amount of time. Money comes and goes; time just goes. When you post something you've written, you're asking people to sacrifice some of their time. They won't be able to spend it on something else, and they won't get a refund. If an author isn't willing to spend some of their own time to make their work presentable, why should I spend mine on reading it?
I'll summarize my views on all that:
If you don't correct your mistakes, you'll never get better. End of story.
To everyone who sacrificed a little of their private time to post in this thread: thank you.