Normally I would not even talk about this, but I think it needs to be said. Over the past few months every once and a while I will get a note from someone that has read a story. I will not divulge names, that's not what this is for. However while they do seem to enjoy at least a read through, they always have one comment:

'X character really should be paired with Y because......'

I responded once telling this person clearly that 'no, you do not know the characters. This is how it is.' After that I simply ignored the notes after reading them once, deleting them.

Today I come home from work with a note pleading for me to 'stop ruining 'Y' character's life!' They were going to write how things 'should' be.

Now you are perfectly within your rights to want a certain character's story to go a different path. I could name quite a few books where I have wished an author would have made a different decision, or I have written fan works where an even did not happen the way it did in the published works. That's ok, its perfectly reasonable and I don't want people to think I'm hypocritical in saying otherwise.

What IS wrong however is telling a person that you will rewrite the story for them to show them where you are wrong. I'm sorry muffin but it just doesn't work that way. These are not your characters, you don't get to decide their paths in what I write. My story is just that MY story and honestly I'm probably going to what little amount of people actually read my work here, but if you really don't like the portrail I have of a character I created, I'm sorry then it is probably best to stop reading. The thing you don't do is pester and whine about it until that person changes their mind. I can guarantee 99% of the time? That's never going to happen unless you have a certain title in front of your name:

Editor

So unless you are my Editor, I'm sorry you don't get to make decisions on my characters. I won't respond, I won't be mean. I just won't listen.