The internet is not a shit filter, stop trying to use it as one.

I like to write a few lines of prose here and there. Sometimes I even might let a few friends or family read it. If they are kind enough to offer critisizm, I go back and try to improve.

What I don't do is throw a tantrum, scream at them that I am not a professional, and then demand to know if they think they can do any better. Here is the deal, whether or not I can do better does not somehow lessen the fact that your work is shit. If you don't want criticism, don't put your work out there. If you can't handle people tearing your work to pieces, don't put it on the internet.

The internet is literally flooded with this garbage, and for some reason, people like to argue that it is somehow of a superior quality or that I shouldn't complain because it is free. This is where I have to do a double take, because I can understand someone saying, "Yah, it's not very good, but at least it is free." But saying some contrived nonsense like, "It is of superior quality because it is free." And yes, I have heard this argument made, and it made me want to hurt somebody. It makes it so much worse because it is usually americans who say this sort of thing. Why does that bother me? Simple america pours billions of dollars every year into a a massive library system, many of these libraries contain some of the greatest works of mankind, and you know what else, it is all free.

So go to your public library, read a book, but for god's sake don't write your own and put it on the internet, because for every piece of crap you put on the internet, I am going to put a piece of crap on your porch.