When I first joined Wattpad and decided to continue my hobby as a story teller publicly, I was curious about how my style would be received. I had read some of the books on writing - the how-tos and so on and figured maybe this might not be the place for me.

So I found a couple of stories that seemed to be quite popular in the genre I felt I would fit into and began reading. One I read cover to cover and found it was okay - a lot of obligatory sex and romantic angst but the plot was interesting enough. The other I didn't get out of the second chapter. It turned into a high school vampires and werewolves fantasy.

Confident enough that I could compete, I posted my first story. It was one I had written a number of years earlier and I was quite aware of the language, the technology and the style that it represented. I copy my stories down from a film running in my head so you get all the things you would get in a movie - the camera angles, the quick cuts, flashbacks and the dreaded POV changes.

I also believe in minimal description, preferring to allow the reader's own imagination visualize the settings and the characters through the action and the dialogue. Obviously some is necessary but not down to every scar and mole unless they are germane to the story.

Villains are different. I hate mine and they get the full treatment as well as a satisfying comeuppance.

When reading strictly for entertainment, I am never surprised at how the brain can delete or create and happily sail through the debris of broken rules without pause. It's only when writer's read with the rule book open in their head that I come a cropper.

But having been here a while and read some very amazing works by some extremely talented people, I can but feel fortunate for those few who actually read the way I wrote.

Following are a few comments that are stuff my dreams are made of.

'I personally don't mind the pov switching. It's such a good story, I barely even notice the switch. It all runs smoothly in my opinion!'

'I've come to like these quick cuts -- it really keeps the adrenaline pumping'

'that was your multi-cast writing at its best. I knew where I was and the confusion of your characters milling among the blood puddles came across clearly'

'The writing cannot be faulted and the action was so visual it was like watching a movie.'

'As I've said, every story you've written that I read plays like a movie in my mind.'

'The setting was fabulous, convincingly detailed but with the feel of a classic movie. Well done!'

'Very well done, like a film very vivid, twisty and suitably silly in just the right places. Great stuff!'

'A story in the best traditions of film noir. Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett would have been proud of you.'

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Okay, so I'm thumping my own drum here; well I am basking in the aftermath after all!