Your response was negative, overwhelmingly. Overwhelmingly hostile if you do the math. It's okay. I finished the book. I've finished three. You can't take that from me.
The strange thing, is none of you read the novel. Not even an excerpt. Because the post wasn't about my writing, it was about feeling lost when you just completed a project that lasted a decade. You Don't know If it's a Twilight fan fiction set on the Love Boat or if I've painstakingly reassembled every word in Ulysses to write out alternate Disney scripts.
You based my worth, and your insults on my 100 word musing. Is that my voice, maybe, is your writing voice what you share on reddit, that would be a shame. I mean for you. I went back and looked up a few of the cruelest people - your reddit life seems to consist of video game levels, seeking advice on mediocre manuscripts, and trolling. So, is the writing me? Overwhelmingly negative of me then - that's personal, and that's fine too.
I'm cliché, I'm not deep, my head's up my ass, I should just die. That hurts, but that's you're intent. So, that's all cool.
Some of the weirder responses I got were rather depressing: 'Writers don't write like that anymore.' - like what? What do writers write like? Where are the rules. The last time I looked it's my life, all of it, start to finish. If I sleep all day, if I write the same word one hundred thousand times, what's it's to you. Judging me doesn't make you smarter, it makes you a mob.
The truth is I did run away, from all of you. I ran though 110 countries, ran to the other side of the world, and built a fortress, a comfortable one, the pool comes into the living-room, I can lounge on my pool and alligator floats (at least when the water is blue, often I'm lazy and it goes green). I have 24' high walls to keep you out. Sometimes it's a prison, but mostly it's freedom. I don't have to look at you. Don't have to hear your inane conversation as I walk down NYC streets. Don't have to bump into your horrible bodies on the subway or have your eyes take pieces of me. Mostly I don't have to deal with stupid. That everyday stupid mundanity that makes you think what you've done is good and great and unique. You will all be stars, and you know it. But then, everyone is special, accepted, respected, that's the new PC. But, we're not all equal - and I think most of you realize that.
Alone is not the same as lonely. I've had 5,000+ lovers, If I'm alone now, it's by choice. Or as Garbo said 'I didn't say I want to be alone, I said I want to be left alone'.
At 40 something, I've been writing for 25 years, I will continue to write, so fuck you.