Written by TheChoujinVirus
Note: The following is based on my own opinion and experiences. Do not take them personally if you feel offended
Happy Tuesday everyone, it’s ya boy Choujin here.
Today’s been an interesting day and today I’ve noticed something when I was reading my notes from my professor today about my short story Ryulong: Tale of a Hero. He gave a detailed review of both the positive and negative about my story. One thing ya boy doesn’t mind is criticism of his writing. After all, it’s the only thing that can help me improve as a writer. However, there are times when some folks give some not so good reviews and some that become pure hot garbage.
One problem with some bad reviews is that you get some people who love to trash on something like a story and find nothing of praise of a media. Now I get it, some stories suck and sometimes you might not like a genre. However, there are some parts of a story that can be enjoyable and if given a chance, does have some potential for some positive feedback. Why? Well, even a crappy story does have some benefits if you look for it. When I was writing reviews for some of the stories of my peers in class, I had to find some positive parts of their story. Despite the heavy flaws in some of them, they had good parts and some potential.
The second one that I hate is when people praise you about your work and yet they can’t find a single flaw in their work. I hate this kind of bad review as it means you couldn’t find anything wrong with a story and the false impression that one’s said story is somehow perfect. From my own experience of writing stories, there’s NO such thing as writing a perfect story! I mean, things like sentence structure, lack of interest of the character development, or even just how characters speak. There’s always a flaw in even masterpieces of other stories beyond just fan base stuff.
Shitting on a story without reason or praising it without criticism; both of those are ya boy’s personal beef when it comes to bad writing critiques. People who write have a thick skin and don’t worry about being criticized, but make sure you give some clarity about why it was bad okay?
It’s not like we’re going to throw a fit
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