The Great Writing Meme
Feb. 21st, 2006 08:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
amalthiathe great writing meme
I'm still debating on if I should join, however some of my favorite authors are getting rather negative responses so I'm like, dude, assuming anyone does respond to my post....it's bound to be rather bad. Not sure I can take it right now. I'm okay with my beta pointing out all the problems in a fic...but if I'm not planning on going back and fixing the story I don't see any point in asking people to flay it alive, so to speak. However, it might help to get some honest responses from people. When you ask someone personally what they think, they rarely come out and say straight to your face "your story sucked big donkey balls" or something like that even if that's the first thing they think.
So I'm going to give this some more thought, maybe go and review some other fics...only I already give feedback for a ton of fics, though I'll admit there are plenty of times I feel like I want to say more but am afraid of hurting the writer's feelings or giving one of those backhanded compliments that I'm so good at and authors never really appreciate.
I'm still debating on if I should join, however some of my favorite authors are getting rather negative responses so I'm like, dude, assuming anyone does respond to my post....it's bound to be rather bad. Not sure I can take it right now. I'm okay with my beta pointing out all the problems in a fic...but if I'm not planning on going back and fixing the story I don't see any point in asking people to flay it alive, so to speak. However, it might help to get some honest responses from people. When you ask someone personally what they think, they rarely come out and say straight to your face "your story sucked big donkey balls" or something like that even if that's the first thing they think.
So I'm going to give this some more thought, maybe go and review some other fics...only I already give feedback for a ton of fics, though I'll admit there are plenty of times I feel like I want to say more but am afraid of hurting the writer's feelings or giving one of those backhanded compliments that I'm so good at and authors never really appreciate.