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tesco samoa said:
well if you want to get into writing get used to it. And this person is reading your chapters. As far as i can see here. the dudes comments made some sence to you so you posted it here looking for some support before you began attacking them. You attacked me for posting that you should take something positive out of the situation. Stories are about Conflict and Growth. As is writing.
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First of all i didn't see "sense" in most of them I saw an insulting bunch of nitpicks that I was worried about because I was afraid maybe I had written my story wrong because I tend ot lack confidence in my non-school writing.
Secondly, I did not "seek support" I saught advice and when people stated that most of his comments were bull then I learned to lighten my attitude towards them a little and have fun at the expense of what was really hurting my feelings.
Third: I did listen to what the folks said was good points accept stated badly and you know what I've already stated I am going to fix what I can, but it will take a little bit of time for me to learn to "mature" my writing to the point I really can find satisfying.
Fourth: You stated nothing to actually help you basically just came in and said "Yeah he was rude and insulting but he was right." so you're the one who came across as attacking.
I just stated that for me it makes more sense to have people who have already watched the writing evolve and improve as time goes by and see what they think of the story as a whole and if they can find these problems.
Okay my story is over 200 PAGES WITHOUT the footnotes and excluding some of the chapters that I had to post directly to the net, and thus people who have read up to most of it are much more effective with seeking advice then someone who is going to have to start all the way from the beginning.
Now if you saw me stating these as attacks maybe your the one who's a little sensetive eh? I have no problem with constructive criticism but CONSTRUCTIVE means that you give a means or at least try to give advice about how to solve the problem you are criticizing it does NOT include simply stating
"I don't like the names
"I don't like this your admirals are retarded blah blah."
the reason I posted here seeking advice was because as someone who has read a lot of sci-fi and found a lot of names involved stupid sounding "Grgnr" I wondered if mine could fall into that catagory.
As well as the "traditionalist" approach to naming my regiments I wondered if other people shared his impression of "I don't get it" or just thought it was lame.
The rest as I said I was more worried about as this is the first
Completely attack mode review anyone has ever given me, I've even had some of the folks here critique my work and you know what? That's fine because they try to help me work through what I did and actually tell me when I reached a good point or if it still needs polish so I actually learn something from the experience and yeah sometimes it hurts my feelings but in the end I realize that it will improve me in the end.