James Ssekamatte
3 min readFeb 8, 2022

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Hi Zoey, my frustrations were not meant to be professional. This is something that had happened countless times with the same editor. As for the editor who wrote that other story, I read it too and yes he was writing it as a response to me BUT he was NOT the editor I was talking about. I have also never submitted a story to him. He only wanted to voice his thoughts through writing an article.

I understand that this article was unprofessional and I specifically made sure that it puts off people who find it unprofessional. You can see that the sub heading and the first lines have a lot of cussing going on. This was deliberate. It was meant for one specific person who told me my feelings were irrelevant. That same person used that to edit my stories and publish them all without my knowledge. He was deleting entire paragraphs, or changing them to read differently. He thought he was making them better. In his words he said, no one cares about your feelings so this is irrelevant, I removed it and now your post is live and reads much better. This he did more than once. I did not write this story to be professional. I didn't even want it to be that popular because it was directed to a specific editor. If I needed to create a popular story, I know how to do it. I did it with this one. The story he edited was not such a story. It was me being vulnerable although it had a lot of things I thought would be useful to readers. I wrote it to intentionally be soft. I didn't care about impact on that. Btw when he edited it, that story sits at 15 views. Clearly his edits were not helpful in achieving his impact yet he diluted my feelings to suit his biases. The editor that did this knows who they are. The person that called me hysterical in his article was not the editor. That was just one random writer on the internet trying to create drama out of this. This was never meant to be a professional piece. And I thought I made it clear in the subtitle and opening lines. I have no back and forth with anyone. I have not written any other story in response to anyone and that was not my intention.

Respectfully, you do not understand where I am coming from with this, because this story means nothing to you and it actually offends you. This story holds NO value to any reader. When I wrote it, I was in a meltdown after a build up of constantly held frustrations from the same person and you best believe I didn't write it thinking about value to any reader. I have to learn how to manage myself and my emotions and I am working on it. But I am not perfect and I am not going to always act professionally when I let emotions and frustrations pile up. I am working on better ways to manage myself but this is one of those stories that my emotions couldn't let go.

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James Ssekamatte
James Ssekamatte

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