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bitterchick - Apr 18, 2003 11:09:11 am PDT #5039 of 10000

I love feedback. All kinds of feedback. My favorite is the kind where people point out specific things that they loved or quote me back to me. It gets me all kinds of giddy.

I don't mind constructive criticism if it's done in a respectful manner. If someone says, "This part didn't work for me because of XYZ," it gives me something to think about. If someone says, "Okay and this part was just dumb because you should have done XYZ," it gives something to bitch about it LJ.

I haven't been flamed to date. The closest I came was an email I received from another writer. Apparently, she had written a story that shared some narrative parallels to one of my stories. Someone called her on it and she was emailing me to apologize. Of course, as her email went on and on, she got more and more hostile and finally ended it with something like, "So yeah, I'm sorry even though I totally shouldn't be."

I really had no response to that.

shrift - Apr 18, 2003 11:30:16 am PDT #5040 of 10000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Has anyone ever received something from a writer with lots of enthusiasm and no talent or skill whatsoever?

Dude. Many, many times.

Just ask Dana about the strange girl from LFN who -- totally unsolicited I might add -- sent me one of her stories and told me that I could post it to my personal fanfic archive.

Not only was it one of the more egregiously awful Mary Sues I've ever seen, but... why would she think I'd post anyone else's stories to my person fanfic archive?

Connie Neil - Apr 18, 2003 12:15:51 pm PDT #5041 of 10000
brillig

Just finished "Seeing the Light." Happy happy, joy joy, whee. Angst, true love, and the Weasley Twins being gits.

Fay - Apr 18, 2003 12:43:24 pm PDT #5042 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

It's fun, isn't it? She's not wholly happy with it, because the mix of comedy/not comedy didn't work out as well as she'd hoped, but I do like it lots.

Connie Neil - Apr 18, 2003 1:08:23 pm PDT #5043 of 10000
brillig

When Harry remembers the green light on Draco's face, then strides across the room to get rid of Eliot ...

Damn, that sounds so soap opera-y, but, damn! Wibble. I t heart the mush.

Fay - Apr 18, 2003 4:56:13 pm PDT #5044 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

Yes, I was choked too. Bless.

esse - Apr 18, 2003 7:20:54 pm PDT #5045 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

Has anyone ever received something from a writer with lots of enthusiasm and no talent or skill whatsoever?

Too many frelling times to count. Though I do my best to offer a thorough and constructive beta regardless. I have a small rep for being a hardass in beta.

Atropa - Apr 18, 2003 7:34:22 pm PDT #5046 of 10000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

a writer with lots of enthusiasm and no talent or skill whatsoever

I worry that I AM that writer.

Which is partially why I've only ever written one snippet of fanfic.

P.M. Marc - Apr 18, 2003 10:20:38 pm PDT #5047 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I worry that I AM that writer.

No, no you are not.

Lee - Apr 19, 2003 12:06:30 am PDT #5048 of 10000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Hey Plei, I just read The less said the Better, over on Bfa. (If you posted it here, I missed it.) Yet another good read.

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