stupid, overemotional echo
Mar. 24th, 2005 01:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spankerellaEver have a day where you get that one review that just makes your spirits plummet? Because it hits you where it hurts? Ever want to tell people if that's what they really think then don't bother next time? I hate when I let things like this get to me... because it makes me question if people REALLY like things or if they're just saying 'good work' so I'll keep working. That might not make sense. It's like one review erases all the good things.
Echo, you know I adore your work, and tell you so every time I leave a review, but when I read this chapter, I just didn't see the emotion and interaction I normally have seen with your chapters. The scenario is flawless, but I just didn't feel this chapter as I felt the others. It felt like you were putting up this chapter just to make your fans happy... Sorry if any of this sound rude. Keep your head up and your eyes shining..
Much love,
*name removed*
Wow. Thanks for making me feel like total crap about my writing ability. I've only spent the last month writing on that part.
I know I shouldn't let this get to me. My brain is actually saying that, but I just can't help it. I feel like I suck right now. A more rational part of me is saying this is just one person's opinion, but I'm questioning now. Maybe I shouldn't be writing until I'm sure I can again. I have so many ideas, but right now I feel like they aren't good enough.
Gonna go crawl in a hole now.
eta: OK! No hole! I get it. Jesus Christ monkey balls. I'll stop feeling sorry for myself because as far as my writing I have nothing to feel sorry about, but I'm telling you that review HURT MY FEELINGS. Yes, I have feelings. Damn.
eta2: Over it. Pissed off and writing like a demon. The pity party was just busted up by the Cranky Pants police. Feelings = still hurt because I'm offended that someone would even suggest I'd post "partially baked cookies", but the hurt is currently being channeled into some fabulous fic character frustration. No need to comment on the sad state of affairs unless you just want to.
...echo out.
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Echo, you know I adore your work, and tell you so every time I leave a review, but when I read this chapter, I just didn't see the emotion and interaction I normally have seen with your chapters. The scenario is flawless, but I just didn't feel this chapter as I felt the others. It felt like you were putting up this chapter just to make your fans happy... Sorry if any of this sound rude. Keep your head up and your eyes shining..
Much love,
*name removed*
Wow. Thanks for making me feel like total crap about my writing ability. I've only spent the last month writing on that part.
I know I shouldn't let this get to me. My brain is actually saying that, but I just can't help it. I feel like I suck right now. A more rational part of me is saying this is just one person's opinion, but I'm questioning now. Maybe I shouldn't be writing until I'm sure I can again. I have so many ideas, but right now I feel like they aren't good enough.
Gonna go crawl in a hole now.
eta: OK! No hole! I get it. Jesus Christ monkey balls. I'll stop feeling sorry for myself because as far as my writing I have nothing to feel sorry about, but I'm telling you that review HURT MY FEELINGS. Yes, I have feelings. Damn.
eta2: Over it. Pissed off and writing like a demon. The pity party was just busted up by the Cranky Pants police. Feelings = still hurt because I'm offended that someone would even suggest I'd post "partially baked cookies", but the hurt is currently being channeled into some fabulous fic character frustration. No need to comment on the sad state of affairs unless you just want to.
...echo out.
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"Keep your eyes shining"
Date: 2005-03-25 09:05 pm (UTC)Truth be told, that reviewer could use a good kick in the pants. She even knew she was doing wrong, otherwise she wouldn't have written that part about the head up and eyes shining. And all I could think about was how she was trying to black your eye/give you a shiner. Granted, I wrote similar reviews myself when I was younger (God, I was so self-righteous. By the time my conscience magically reappeared after years of absence, it was almost enough to make me wish my mother had drowned me at birth). But that doesn't make it easier for the rest of the world to stomach.
I thought I'd just take the time to mention that your writing's worth something. I risk self-righteousness by writing this, but I think your voice is strong, insightful, and thought-provoking. I think it's wonderful. I also think that you've got a lot of young would-be authors looking up to you, wanting to read you, while at the same time being shaped by you and what you write. Your writing doesn't avoid real life; it emulates it, while throwing in a bit of the fantastic to keep us on our toes. So, even though you're over being upset (sorry for digging at something better left healed), I applaud you for continuing to write, despite all of the people who weren't drowned at birth, or at the very least roasted over hot coals, out there. I'm not your friend, so you can't think that I'm just saying this (and after that crack about the coals, aren't you glad you don't know me?). And heaven forbid anyone accuse me of brown-nosing; that went out with JTT way back in the early 90s. I raise my coffee mug to you, and bite my thumb in The Reviewer's general direction. She'll grow out of it.
Have a lovely evening, and my best to you and your mom.