Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-30542316-20170522204707/@comment-28644276-20170607050354

Part 2

I want anyone who happens to read this as more of a message of incentive from me than anything else. Because frankly speaking, when I came here for the first time, I had hopes - and some of them, I still have - that FC/OC can improve. Evolve, through each and every one of our verses. Is it hard to improve? You bet.

It's as hard as it gets. But I have this opinion - or rather, a belief - that if you create something, the ideal is that, as an author, you should first and foremost respect your own work. And what does it mean to respect your work? That particular thing you spend your time with and attached your name to?

Well, creating OP characters for the sake of it is not respecting your work.

It's the same as letting it stagnate. It's throwing all of the possibilities for your creation in the trash can before truly stopping to consider them. Or even caring enough to notice that they are there. That they may, on the grand scheme of things, matter way more for your verse and readers than simply power. If you do this, you're going in the same direction as something like Suggs - you're attracting to your work the worst kind of reputation it could ever have.

That's not respecting your creation, nor your potential as an author/writer/artist/creator of any kind.

Frankly speaking, as someone who's making every effort and working as hard as possible for the sake of making what I write have some meaning, I don't wish that kind of thing for any author out there. Much less to any of you, who I've seen around here.

Sadly, when we try to get this message across - and on this one thing, I can speak from my experience despite being someone who is still striving to improve much like anyone else - many times the answer we get is something around the lines of:

"You're trying to stop my verse."

"Why are you concerned if it's not even a part of your work?"

"You're just against my ideas/creativity."

Well...

