Apologies if I had to delete a few statuses lately. This morning I received some rather harsh criticism from another user which I will not name. They accused me of being rude and disrespectful to my followers for choosing not to accept story requests and posting about telling them to write the story themselves.
Let me make this clear. It is my decision to not take requests and only focus on what I want to write, especially since I'm busy and would rather use what precious free time I do have to focus on my own writing ambitions. I am simply reminding people that I don't do this but also encouraging them that if you have a very specific idea for a story, the fact that you were able to come up with it shows to me that you are more than capable of writing it yourself than you think.
This person also continueously called me "dude" when I asked them to stop, and would not listen when I tried to explain that I am not disrespectful to my fans. I try to be as kind as possible to my followers but if they continue to pester me for more frequent updates to a certain story or for a story request, then sometimes I have to be firm to get them to understand. This person went on to say my writing is terrible to a point that it's funny and can't wait for my next story. What the hell? That doesn't make sense! If I genuinely don't like a story, or someone's writing style, I don't say anything and stop reading, it's common sense. This person has been muted and I want no association with them.
If you want to take story requests from other readers because it feels it helps you grow your fanbase and their trust in you, by all means. But, I will not accept anyone lecturing me for the decisions I make here, accusing me of certain behaviour, and also why are you wasting your time reading my work if you don't like my writing style. No fanfiction on Wattpad is written like Tolkien's work. Leave. Now.