Wasn’t My Intention

It was an accident. I never meant to hurt anybody. However, people took my words personally as a vicious attack against them. When I started out writing this story, it’s purpose was simply to gain closure on an intense romantic relationship for my past so that I could move on. The story took on an unintended spin as I kept writing. Part of the reason I was drawn to this attraction had to do with the actions and reactions of those around me at the time. I ended up portraying in side plots things that were going on with my friends and family. I realize now that I should have disguised the characters better than I did, altered events from their reality. What I had was actually a good first draft that should have been reworked several times. My editor thought what I had was good, however, and she encouraged me to publish. When I did, I did not count on all Hell braking loose. One person, never a friend, attacked me right away with a viscious one star review that was more of an attack on me than my writing. Another person simply unfriended me, cut of all contact without reaching out at all. Still another sent me an email about how hurt she was by my selfishness. It was never my intention to evoke these reactions. After a few more attacks from the one star reviewer and a threatening message from the sister of one of the “characters,” I decided it was in everyone’s best interest that I unpublish. It was never my intention to cause the hurt that I did. I’m sorry and if I could turn back time, I would think twice before hitting that publish button.