Jun. 19th, 2012
what the heck?
Jun. 19th, 2012 06:46 pmSo in the past couple weeks I've got random comments on a couple of my olderish stories on various websites and they've all been backhanded compliments. Like, 'this is great, but this part kinda sucked. but not really.' type of things. And I'm just kind of confused and a little bit pissed off.
I understand that writing is a growing process, and not everyone appreciates the same things- but I just find it rude. I would NEVER leave negative feedback on someone's work like that. Even if I really didn't like it, that's no reason to belittle the time and effort the author put into their story. If I was confused about their choices, I would politely ask them their thought processes, but not flat out say I hated it.
meh. I guess it's just getting my flamer/troll cherry popped but--- it really kind of upset me.
I'm considering taking my stuff down to be honest. Or at least making everything friends only. At this point in my writing, I do it for fun- for the creativity of it and as an outlet, not for people's affirmation.....but on the other hand I'm an insanely sensitive person and negative stuff that isn't constructive criticism really gets to me :(
I understand that writing is a growing process, and not everyone appreciates the same things- but I just find it rude. I would NEVER leave negative feedback on someone's work like that. Even if I really didn't like it, that's no reason to belittle the time and effort the author put into their story. If I was confused about their choices, I would politely ask them their thought processes, but not flat out say I hated it.
meh. I guess it's just getting my flamer/troll cherry popped but--- it really kind of upset me.
I'm considering taking my stuff down to be honest. Or at least making everything friends only. At this point in my writing, I do it for fun- for the creativity of it and as an outlet, not for people's affirmation.....but on the other hand I'm an insanely sensitive person and negative stuff that isn't constructive criticism really gets to me :(