Oh, God, I'm neurotic

[ratherastory]

This is me being insecure and neurotic. Nothing to see here, move along.


Dear Self,

We have been over this. Just because a reviewer obviously didn't understand your story or maybe just didn't read it carefully does NOT mean you suck forever as a writer. Come on. There are plenty of people whose opinions you trust who told you the story worked just fine. One *anonymous* reviewer should not be enough to reduce you to a quivering pile of insecure goo.

Jesus H. Christ, woman, pull yourself together!

Love,

Me



Dear Anonymous Reviewer,

Really? You read all 8,000 words of that fic and came away with the notion that I have sympathy only for Sam and that I'm awful to Dean? Really?

I'm a little flummoxed that that's what you took away from the story. Truly.

Maybe you ought to read it again a little more carefully. Or, better yet, go away before I enlist Missouri to hit you with a spoon. I am all for constructive criticism, but that? That wasn't it.

No love,

Me

Comments

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

I hear ya. I don't mind concrit, as long as it's actual, well-thought-out concrit, which it almost never is.

"Your Dean is OOC!" is not concrit. "I feel that Dean wouldn't have reacted in this way because of X, Y and Z reasons that are made clear in the show," is concrit.

I usually won't leave comments in a fic I didn't like. Fanfic is a different beast entirely from regular writing, and if I have nothing nice to say, I won't say anything at all.

And why is it that it's so easy to focus on the one negative comment amidst the myriad of nice ones? Bah.

[claudiapriscus.livejournal.com]

I agree. I don't comment if it really didn't do anything for me, and I don't leave any sort of critical comment unless I really liked it. And even then, it's usually a small thing, like typos, small errors, that kind of thing.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Same here. If someone really wanted concrit, they'd have asked me to beta. :P