Buggy’s kinda doing what she said she’d never do…

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and haters gonna hate. I get a lot of reviews on my stories about how I’m treating Bella or that she’s a wuss or a bitch or a pushover. That people are tired of Broken!Bella.

And believe me, so am I.

I’ve come to a point where it’s getting quite difficult for me to write anything but Broken!Bella, especially when pairing her up with one of the Originals. I don’t even like Twilight that much; mainly because to me, they’re empty characters. There’s nothing real about them. Especially about Bella. Which makes it so easy to just grab her and use her in any way I want her to use. I can give her a personality, make her more real. The Cullens are always 99% evil because fuck sparkly vampires.

And I get it. People get tired of it. I do!

I realized that I wrote a semi-strong Bella when I paired her up with Isaac Lahey from Teen Wolf in my story Missed Connections. Having had enough of vampires for a while, I wrote Underground Railroad.

And I am so damn proud of that story, you have no idea. It’s 30 chapters of goodness. Fun. Angst. And a strong!Bella.

So imagine my surprise when I opened my mail this morning and found a review on the only chapter I’ve posted for Underground Railroad thus far (I only started posting it less than a week ago!). I’m not angry (although wifey is – she’s pissed!) and I didn’t know what to do with it. So instead, I started writing this blog post.

I see several things wrong with this review.

• She reviewed as a guest, so I can’t send her a PM to explain chapter 1 to her.
• It was mentioned that Bella was under the influence of the Cold One pheromone. She was being manipulated through that pheromone. Of course it takes someone like Peter to help her out of that because her human friends have likely caught a whiff of that same pheromone! Besides, her human friends are HUMAN. Oh, and not to mention the puppies. They’re useless.
• This is chapter 1. Bella’s confused. A story has to start somewhere!

But I assure you, this Bella is kickass. She’s not a pushover, merely cautious and she will grow into her own very fast. Trust me. I wrote this story, I know what’s going to happen.

I don’t write Bella/Edward, because I think the Cullens are creeps and I’ve tried writing Good!Cullens and nearly vomited when I was halfway through the first chapter. I binned it, of course. I will never write Bella/Edward unless I can write him as a manipulative and abusive bastard that he is.

If you want to read Bella/Edward, stay the hell away from my stories, because I am not one of those authors and never will. You can’t make me write Bella/Edward.

I was tempted to remove this review from ffnet because it doesn’t make any sense, especially this early on in a story. You don’t know what I have planned. But I won’t do it. I don’t have guest moderation on and guests are allowed on my reviews because a review is a review and once I upload more stories, your review will disappear from the front page.

As I said before, I usually get these kinds of reviews when I’ve posted several more chapters. And I always point and laugh. Like I’m doing now.

So thank you for adding to the review count, Val!

(Oh, and BTW, we have a character named Val in Between Heaven And Hell, and since that story is in progress still… nobody really knows yet if she’s a good or bad… and in another story.. Myriam is quite hungry.)

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In celebration of this wonderful review, a new chapter of Underground Railroad will appear today! I’m not sure when yet, it’s still early, but yeah.

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My next project will be an origin story for Myriam Jenkins for the Big Bang I’m organizing over at Fictional Retreat. And it’s coming along nicely!

A Big Bang is a challenge where you have to write 25,000 words or more, in 3-4 months, and hopefully a complete story out of it, because that will be the challenge! It’s actually something from my previous fandom life, and it may look daunting but it’s basically one giant party and you write, write, write! Meeko and I wrote Broken Bird in 2011 for a Big Bang with the minimum wordcount also being 25k. Broken Bird is over 100k long!

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