Etiquette Hell

I should know better than to go there. Sometimes the stories are interesting, but sometimes it's a whole group of people with nothing better to do than clutch pearls.

Like the woman who had to use swearing to make a creepy guy back away from the employee serving at the counter of a sandwich store. Creepy guy was basically intimidating the (male) employee by talking about a topic that made the employee uncomfortable and which the employee couldn't escape.

Right now, half the comments are "but the employee should have told him to go away" with a side helping of "and you shouldn't have used swearing". A few are "whatever worked to make creepy guy go away".

This is like "you shouldn't lie about having a boyfriend to get a man to leave you alone; it's not polite", yeah?

Dear Prime Time Player 2016!

Thank you for writing for me, dear writer! I appreciate the time and effort you're putting in to craft a story, and I hope it's not a chore!

First things first
The details in this letter are pretty much optional. If you can't manage the suggestions I've made, then please don't stress - just write the characters and their relationship and it'll be fine.

After that, the most important thing is that the female characters shine! Give them heroic arcs, give them agency, give them things to do, choices to make, significance.

This is last year's NPT letter. I've copypasta'd a lot of it because I'm very predictable; I ask for pretty much the same stuff every year, because I just want more about these characters!

( love me, love the characters I love... )

Don't worry, be happy. Relax. Write the fic. Have fun.

And THANK YOU.