Mm-hmm, people tend to assume that bad writers are also stupid writers. How can you write well if you don't know any better? Granted, some of them are more or less stupid - or at least pretend to be - but I figure in most cases they are only young or new to writing.
*nods* Exactly. And even if you get that young writer who's extremely confrontational when it comes to negative reviews, you wouldn't have known the writer's like that
before you review if you're the first person to come along with concrit (if that makes sense). That and the young always have a tendency to change. I can't count how many young reviewers who snapped at me for being harsh chilled out awhile later and turned around. Some of them even thanked me a year or so after having a huge wankfest about my review. (I met a lot of good friends that way.)
And besides, yeah, everyone has their badfic days. It's just a lot of experienced or older writers like to forget they did. Denying someone of a guiding hand is a lot like denying yourself at that age of any hope to improve.
Probably repeating what you said, and if it is, sorry for the repetition. XD I'm just saying you're definitely not alone about early crapfics. In fact,
feel free to get lulz from the stuff before 2005. I'd offer the OT fics I tried to write in 2000, but I was too embarrassed to keep them on the web.
So, now no-one really dares to say anything negative to anyone on that course, and negative things is precisely what I want to hear.
*facepalm*
'Course, on the other hand, I'm not entirely surprised because it's easier to ignore "I can't take negative reviews" on the 'net. I mean, in real life, you need some serious balls to tell someone they're doing something wrong because then you have to see the expressions on their faces.
On the other hand, if this actually stopped concrit partway through a semester... then geez. XD
She says she likes to write aesthetic stories and she's a teenage girl, so you might be able to guess how her texts are like.
XD Oh, that kind of writer. I knew someone who did that constantly. It's cute, but no one could figure out what the crap his stories were about.
'Course, some of mine were like that too. Oh, angsty teens.
Choose a reviewer you'd want to review your fic:
1) A mind-numbingly harsh but very professional critic who never says anything nice or encouraging and hits you in every possible sore spot
2) Overly friendly and encouraging critic who never says anything negative and focuses on encouraging you and making you feel excited
3) Yourself from an alternate dimension
4) Someone that is your polar opposite when it comes to opinions, interests and points of view
All of the above. 1 would be the hardest to deal with because I'm an open egotist, but after the initial surprise, I'd probably appreciate that a lot, probably a bit more than a reviewer like 2. 3 would be a lot like 1 only with a paragraph or two about what's good, and I think it'd probably be tied with the all-negative review in terms of stuff I'd love to hear. 4 would be a surprise to have hanging around a fic that's completely my interests (mmm, straight sci-fi), but it'd be interesting to see what someone like that would have to say, sort of like a different perspective.
So, uh, long story short, I'd love a little bit of everything, I think.