Edited: 7 April 2014
Dear Everyone,
Thank you very, very much for your thoughtful suggestions.
I have read all of your comments and, after giving it a long thought, finally decided against publishing stories written by other people - for the moment.
I'll keep my mind focused on translating and publishing creepy stories that I discovered by myself as often as I can!
Many of you sent me such encouraging messages - as usual I really appreciate them from the bottom of my heart, as it is mostly your support that motivates me to continue this blog.
Take care :D,
Love, Saya
(VOTE CLOSED)
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Some of my readers want to share their own creepy stories and they have asked me whether I can publish those stories on this blog.
I thought I would first ask you readers whether you would like me to do that or not.
My concern is that this blog is meant to be a blog for Japanese horror stories and urban legends, and to publish the readers' stories would mean bringing alien elements into it.
I'm also afraid that I wouldn't have enough time to proofread. I'm the only person who is managing this blog and accepting readers' stories might prove too much for me to handle.
Anyway, I thought I would ask for your opinion on this matter first and take them into consideration before making the final decision.
So kindly please take time to vote in the poll that I've set up on the right hand side of the blog.
Thank you! :)
Love, Saya
Dear Everyone,
Thank you very, very much for your thoughtful suggestions.
I have read all of your comments and, after giving it a long thought, finally decided against publishing stories written by other people - for the moment.
I'll keep my mind focused on translating and publishing creepy stories that I discovered by myself as often as I can!
Many of you sent me such encouraging messages - as usual I really appreciate them from the bottom of my heart, as it is mostly your support that motivates me to continue this blog.
Take care :D,
Love, Saya
(VOTE CLOSED)
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Some of my readers want to share their own creepy stories and they have asked me whether I can publish those stories on this blog.
I thought I would first ask you readers whether you would like me to do that or not.
My concern is that this blog is meant to be a blog for Japanese horror stories and urban legends, and to publish the readers' stories would mean bringing alien elements into it.
I'm also afraid that I wouldn't have enough time to proofread. I'm the only person who is managing this blog and accepting readers' stories might prove too much for me to handle.
Anyway, I thought I would ask for your opinion on this matter first and take them into consideration before making the final decision.
So kindly please take time to vote in the poll that I've set up on the right hand side of the blog.
Thank you! :)
Love, Saya
Comments
Also, I thought you'd like this-
http://www.sakevisual.com/summerstory.html
Btw, I wanted to complement you again on your translations. I've been looking at other scary story translation blogs which sometimes double up on stories that you've done too. It made me realise that translation is so important on how the story comes across and I find that your translations give me a fuller story than others'. Which makes me appreciate why you want to "copyright" your translations. It must be so hard doing all the tough work translating and seeing it stolen in another place! I hope people respect your translation as I have learnt to respect it, after reading other blogs. Please keep up the hard work! I really enjoy your translations. Thank you sooooo much for your efforts :)
it might bring alien elements to your blog or it can bring in more colors for it. provided their stories are up to standard (level of creepiness/writing skills)
it's really up to you....if you're not comfortable, then it's also alright.
Personally, I think this would break the uniqueness of this blog. And as you said, it would really take a lot of effort to filter and proof-read. IMHO, i don't really like this idea...
Maybe the readers can share their scary stories personally with you and once in a while, you may selectively read some and share with us if it really creeps you out :-)
I like the feeling you have brought and don't wish to ruin it.
A second thought is that, as you said, this is a site that is relating to Japanese horror stories and urban legends. This is what brought myself and (I'm sure) many of your other readers here in the first place and what makes this blog essentially what it is.
I do not doubt the capability of your readers in producing fear inducing tales, but I think that they can accomplished this by posting their stories to the comments of relevant stories as they read them. This is where most of us look for this sort of thing anyways, I believe :D.
If they would like to post a long story, the could post it to one of the sites mentioned by Saint Dork or CY and link it in the comments.
Perhaps if you decided you would like to do a post related to user generated stories you could always have a link list with summaries of what the stories are about. So that the readers could get some front page attention without taking away from what your blog is about.
No matter what you do, I have faith in your judgement and will stick around regardless :P
Redirecting the readers' stories to a different site or even a tumblr account seems like the better choice.
I would really enjoy a feature like that, but you should use your own judgement for proofreading.
Well..i personally like your blog as it is now..as the blog which posts translation of creepy stories from japanese forum site....
as for reader-submitted story...perhaps it would be better if you just make a mirror blog (when i wrote this, the name 'saya and friends in underworld ' flashed through my mind :P ) specially for those kind of story and link it here (well, i know you must be very busy just working on this blog) well..that's my 2 cents :3
Also thank you for your suggestion and kind offer to help me out with proofreading! I'll ask you if the need ever arises! :D
@Anon (18 March 2014 11:06): Thank you for your suggestion! I have also thought of doing a compilation of scary stories left in the comments; maybe I'll do that sometime in the future.
I also really appreciate your compliment on my translations! It has boosted my confidence. :D
I think when you translate scary stories you need to be aware what makes them so scary. As you said often it's not just the storyline but the way it is told that makes them scary! :D
Thank you for your kind words and take care! <3
@diru: "Saya and friends in underworld" ? haha sounds cool!
@Anon (21 March 2014 01:20): Oh thank you I'm glad to be back in action too! Maybe I'll consider doing the once-weekly feature in the future. At the moment I'm living alone in a foreign country and there's too much stress to handle new things.
EVERYONE, thank you so much for taking time to respond to my post! Although I haven't replied to every one of them, I still appreciate them very much. :D <3<3