I don't know. I feel weird without constructive criticism. If anyone just tells me "it's really good" I can't believe them because I am like they are sugar coating it. So I often annoy my friends and writing partners with the "what makes it good" and I often get the dreaded stare. Like "I just said it was good can't you accept that". It goes into this big thing of what I am going to call writers anxiety and the inability to accept that sometimes something is good with any critique needed.
Yeah, I understand that feeling. You'll get feedback here though. It'll be polite, but there's no "if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it" rule, so don't worry about having your feelings massaged.
While I would agree with you. having a Thumper policy in place will keep some from crying. (I has personal exp. in that area.) And I lost a friend on here do to not being able to hold my tongue, because of it.
I can take it. Not as easily upset by certain things as most. It takes a lot of a certain something to really irritate me. In real life people who know me often see me as the person so quiet, calm and reserved, that when I am actually pissed you have actually done something to cross my buttons.
Yep. There are some people who tell everyone their writing is good, and some whose critique is always a bit bizarre, but you get a feel for who they are if you read around the workshop and can filter feedback accordingly. Most people are honest and polite in my experience.
"due" Also if you lost a friend over not being able to take honest critique then they weren't much of friend in the first place
Well, in Dutch, it means 'corpse' ('lijk', but it's pronounced the same). I hope to have suitably answered your question. Now then, on to delivering corpses to the peoples here... One head, pristine condition, bidding starts at nine Euros!
