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By Apparently not a writer - 20/02/2013 16:36 - United States - Hockessin

Today, I uploaded the first chapter of my best writing yet to a popular writing website. After ten minutes, I was thrilled to already see one review and five comments. Each comment was telling me to immediately delete the story because of how horrible it was. The rating was half a star. FML

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Today, my teacher read my story about a haunted house for a class assignment. She liked it very much and turned it in to the office to be sent into a state writing competition. An hour later, I was called to the office where the guidance counselor called my work "disturbing" and said I "need help". FML

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Today, after turning in a paper that I worked really hard on, I got it back with a grade of 0. In the feedback section, my professor wrote: “In all my 37 years of teaching, this is by far the worst essay I have ever read.” FML

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Today, I tried to write a bad review for the fast-food place at which I work part-time. My username made me anonymous, but I forgot to change my profile picture. Now my manager and coworkers won't even speak to me. FML

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hunny797 5

Wednesday 20 February 2013 19:01

Delete this FML

Pleonasm 35

Wednesday 20 February 2013 19:03

Did you do a fanfic of 50 Shades of Grey? Who am I kidding that would become a bestseller.

Comments

simsgirlgem 25

Thursday 21 February 2013 21:51

I am so sorry Op I hate those people I'm okay with critism when its helpful like where you should fix a part not trolls

Crono943 6

Friday 22 February 2013 3:54

Are you Lena Dunham?

Raykyogrou03 12

Friday 22 February 2013 23:06

Consider an actual career. Some people just can't do things other people are good at.

doodoo10 10

Saturday 23 February 2013 1:00

wattpad? :)

Cobalt_the_nerdy 9

Saturday 23 February 2013 2:09

Did the book happen to be called "Faster than the Speed of Love"?

snk9045 3

Saturday 23 February 2013 14:47

Well looks like we have a Brian Griffin.

mimaayyy 7

Monday 25 February 2013 5:08

Try going on figment.com they have much more constructive criticsm

caitiebug1119 15

Sunday 14 July 2013 4:49

Don't take it as advice to stop writing altogether, just take it as constructive criticism. Run it through a spelling and grammar checker, make sure the way you formatted it looks like a real book, and know how to punctuate and divide paragraphs. Make it sound believable. Is it painfully obvious that it's a story or are you sucking me into another world? If it's fanfiction, either make the characters sound like they do in the original work or mark it as AU. Ask the commenters how you can make it better.

feelthebite 2

Thursday 17 October 2013 4:34

What site? And I know it's not Wattpad. I already have an account there.

missd420 16

Sunday 20 October 2013 5:36

Hey, I'm on Wattpad, too! Are you a reader or a writer? I'm looking for more to read on there.

missd420 16

Sunday 20 October 2013 5:35

One of the criticisms I got on my writing is pulling away from the word "said." Instead of "he said, she said," go more for "he demanded, she insisted."