How funy it is that my name is shown in the winner list of the last prompt, but no one has ever seen my entry, I can accept it as your wish to curate or not, but now most of my stories are being ignored, that's why I'm leaving this community today.
Thank you for your cooperation so far.@theinkwell
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Dear friend @fantom22 . I know how discouraging it can be when one's stories are unnoticed. But I will advice you should not give up on your passion for writing or let this experience discourage you from being part of this community.
I know curation, comments, reblogs and upvotes are encouragement and support that give us that confidence that we are good, terrific and improving and I know how discouraging it can be when we don't see any of these in a post after we have put in lots of efforts and time trying to craft out something.
We can't tell what exactly caused this issue of your posts not being appreciated but regardless I will only encourage you not to let this experience end your membership. You are I know that this community impacts lots of writing tips. It helps writers improve, give us privilege to connect with other terrific writers and many more. Keep the fire burning, write and believe in your creativity. I wish you best of luck in any way you choose, either to stay or the other way round.
Will be deeply grateful for your goodwill, thank you from the bottom of my heart.@marynn Only a true well-wisher like you and one who thinks about my well-being can do the work of giving me advice by taking out so much of his precious time. Dear Maryann, I have taken this decision very carefully, and for this, I have thought for 3 whole months, I have a list of other eminent authors besides me, who were not being done full justice, but I have seen that out of these No one is ready to put forth their views on this matter, and thus lives in an atmosphere of despair.
Best wishes dear friend, I respect your decision.
We're sorry you're leaving the community, @fantom22. Thank you for being a member for all these months. We've really enjoyed your stories and seeing your writing improve so much! And you have contributed a lot to the community. That said, people change. Communities change. If we aren't meeting your standards or needs for attention on your posts, then we wish you the best, and hope you find what you are looking for elsewhere!
Good luck and best wishes.
I have learned a lot from you, to be honest, you have taught me to write all this.
I respect you from my heart, whenever you will be the admin of any other community, you will find me with you there.
with great respect.
Thanks for every thing.@jayna Madam, actually I myself am sad to leave the community, but in the last 2-3 months I am seeing a huge change in the community activities, no old writer is getting attention, and new writers are being rewarded heavily.
Thanks @fantom22. I don't want to have a long conversation with you here about this, but I will let you know that I disagree completely with your assessment of how the community has changed. What has changed is that we have grown, and the quality of the work has increased. This has been a magical and wonderful transformation that we feel reflects our work as a community to help writers improve their craft.
Each time we put up a new prompt, we select the best stories we can find, and we try to reward different people each week so that everyone who is putting in a lot of time and effort on their posts and engaging in the community gets a chance at winning.
We are not focused only on new writers. You are entitled to your opinion, but it does not reflect the reality or focus in The Ink Well.
I took a glance at your posts. You have consistently been curated and rewarded in The Ink Well based on the increasing quality of your work, far above what you earn in freewriters. Are you leaving that community too?
We do not get to every single post, as you know. And we often don't get to posts right away. We are trying to improve our processes, as we sometimes don't get to every post written for the prompt before the new one is posted. That is a problem we want to fix.
Again, good luck and best wishes. I wanted to give you some more background on our side so you understand that you have not been ignored or left out, despite your view of what has transpired.