I have a question that was prompted by but is unrelated to Monocle's thread on giving thanks.
What's the acceptable protocol here for telling someone a story is just bad? No offense to anyone, but it happens. Personally, if someone hates something I write, I'd want to hear it in full-on brutal honesty. Do most of you want to hear when someone has negative feedback?
If you give me a specific thing you didn't like about my story, or offer constructive criticism, I enjoy the feedback. However, if all you are saying is, "that story sucked" I'm not as happy with the feedback, because there is no way for me to know what you want me to improve.
I think that's pretty good D. but be nice and make a point of saying that it's just in your opinion.
I think that it would be acceptable to offer constructive criticism, but *I* would prefer that it be in the form of a private message rather than a comment in public view. I would hate for one person's opinion to shade someone else's viewing of my work.
But that's just me.
Ling
Positive feedback makes me feel good and encourages me to keep writing. Constructive criticism makes me think and helps me improve. Either way, I appreciate knowing how the reader feels about my story.
I agree with the points already made. It would be foolish not to want to get constructive criticism. How else could we improve? Hearing that someone enjoyed reading what I wrote makes me feel great. Thankfully most of the feedback is good.
Publicly insulting a story is a different matter. As one person pointed out, send a private message to the author. There are times that the criticism is incorrect but other readers may get swayed by them.
What I dislike most is someone who reads a story and rates it poorly because of the topic. Don't read stories if you don't like stories, for example. I wrote a story about a woman who fucked both her husband and son (not at the same time) and got pregnant. Some people were disturbed that she fucked her son and some were disgusted she might have gotten pregnant from him. Incest is only one topic I write about but it's strictly fantasy. One guy publicly wrote that I am a sick woman to fuck my son. I don't even have a son. lol
Unfortunately, there are some readers who can't separate fact from fiction.
Fell off my chair laughing at DB.
i dont mind getting negative, but creative, critisism in my comments.
If I did I would just turn off the commenting of everything.
I can't stand getting positive dishonest comments. It's very.. *shiver* disturbing.
