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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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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

perdix 29

Wednesday 20 February 2013 20:31

Well, this is the greatest FML story I've ever seen on this site! You just needed to find your niche and this is it! ***** Five stars out of five -- Sheer Genius! I offer a course for $799 on how to make money writing for FML. If you sign up for it, I will show you how I made my first $799 writing for FML.

ViviMage 38

Wednesday 20 February 2013 20:36

What can they really decide in 10 minutes? Likely trolls.

MidnaLink 33

Wednesday 20 February 2013 21:46

Actually, you'd be surprised. It just depends on how fast they read it or how far they actually read.

akiahara 14

Wednesday 20 February 2013 22:12

Bad writing doesn't take long to spot. I'm not going to read the whole book if the first chapter or two is atrocious.

artinwords 14

Wednesday 20 February 2013 20:44

If its not all sex and gore people dont like it. Id be interested in reading it and giving some constructive crit rather than just being mean.

CharresBarkrey 15

Wednesday 20 February 2013 21:46

If it was on a writing website, where everyone is writers, I doubt that's what they're looking for.

kawaiisakura 12

Thursday 21 February 2013 0:51

#73 I write stories and post them on a writing website. I even ask my readers for criticism so I know what I could improve on. Yea its nice hearing if its awesome, but even better when there's advice

missd420 16

Sunday 20 October 2013 5:28

I post a lot on writing websites hoping people tell me what is wrong with it. Without criticism, there's no room for improvement. If everyone said "Oh this is amazing and perfect!", I would never grow as a writer. Don't shut down and give up because people didn't like your story right off the bat, but don't take criticism as insult either.

MSCCG 16

Wednesday 20 February 2013 20:53

Sometimes when you feel smug about a piece of writing it can mean that you used too many literary devices or spent too much time with a thesaurus which can actually make your work feel clunky and unnatural.