Attack of the killer morons.
Wow. So many situations today that could apply to!
But I meant it as a lead-in to explaining why I don't put my fiction writing out in public anymore: the inevitable backlash from people who feel they just have to attack anyone else's creative efforts.
You know the people I mean: the ones who would tell Hemingway he's an illiterate poser. Of course in that case he'd probably come 'round and adjust their attitude with his fists, but that's not an option most of us can (or would) employ.
In fact the anonymity the Internet provides empowers cowards to lash out at others, making those with justified inferiority complexes feel like they are superior to those who are in fact superior to them.
So here I sit behind a wall of undiscovery, able to express myself freely without fear of being attacked by morons.
And I still am reluctant to post any of my fiction.