can't take criticism

[mwestbelle]

I'm not really sure why I took a creative writing class...I fucking hate criticism. Not in general. Just the tone...especially one person who told me to START A BLOG and get more comfortable with writing. Shut you face, bitch, we all think you're a pretentious skank and it wasn't an essay about not being able to write, it was an essay about not wanting to write creative nonfiction because I HATE IT. RRRGH. I'm pissed. It's not like I think it was the bestest essay evar--I'm in a creative writing class because I need to improve, but it sucks that I'm getting nitpicked to shreds because no one has the balls to actually criticize the really shitty essays that get handed out. I really don't have a problem with people saying I should have a more unified theme, or that my sentences sometimes get hard to follow or that it was rough-draftest (which, yeah...I wrote it in one sitting on Sunday night because this assignment KILLED ME) but when you're just elitist and bitchy--NOT COOL. Stop acting like you're SOOOO far above all of this, you're in an intro class too. *wordless expression of rage*

Comments

[usagiko.livejournal.com]

This is why I did NOT do any kind of creative writing while at Santa Barbara - everyone thinks they're better than you and "creative criticism" just turns into a masscre on a weekly basis. :/

You write fine, honey. Don't let them get you down.

[mwestbelle.livejournal.com]

Thanks X_X I hate when people are just mean for no reason.

[thelemic.livejournal.com]

I'm not the most unbiased judge, but as far as I've seen you are a good writer. Don't let the pretentious assholes get to you.

[mwestbelle.livejournal.com]

Thanks...I asked around and the girl in question seems to have written really bitchy comments on most everyone's paper, so I feel a little better.

I just hope I can be good at something besides slash :-/

[thelemic.livejournal.com]

Writing slash is in and of itself writing practice though, so in theory it should help with being able to write other things, right?

[mwestbelle.livejournal.com]

Yeah...I think it's just the sense of wanting to go "No, really, I can write, the internet tells me so!" And there's just that "oh god, what if fanfic is all I'll ever be able to do?" *sadface*

(Resolutely listening to Nine in the Afternoon to cheer myself up)

[thelemic.livejournal.com]

I almost have the opposite problem--I have one bandom fic (well, sort of two) and three total pieces of fanfiction to my name total over the past few years, and while I like the one I've done, I'm kind of afraid I won't be able to write another one.

[mwestbelle.livejournal.com]

Original fic just makes me really self-conscious...I have a hard time finding a balance between infodumping and not telling you anything because I just feel like it's putting myself out a lot further than fanwork is.

[thelemic.livejournal.com]

I've never really thought about it like that... huh. I don't know, I just always write original fic because I'm so paranoid that I'm going to get people out of character I don't even bother trying.

[mwestbelle.livejournal.com]

We've all got different worries :) It's what makes us ~special~

[sinspirations.livejournal.com]

No worries babe. Haven't I told you this before?

Private School = Pretentious bitches.

Meanwhile, all I get for criticism is sunshine and roses and "OMG i <3 this poem you're soooo good" when I *know* it needs work but I'm not sure HOW to fix it and I feel like I'm trying to get help from a bunch of middle-schoolers.

Anyways, my point is, YOU are smart enough to know when something isn't your best work, and you can also recognize when people are seeking to sounds smart in front of others, so basically you can blow those asshats off and listen to your heart.

And your BFF of course. Cuz I know everything. ^_^

[mwestbelle.livejournal.com]

Thanks sweetie.

Hil is standing here right now making horrified sounds at what Pretentious Bitch wrote on my paper, so I feel a little better. :( Imma watch Lost and feel better.

[folkballad.livejournal.com]

Jenny, Jenny. Lazy-Eye is a pretentious bitch. This we know. Don't let her get you down. Your essay was one of the best we've read in that excuse for a creative writing class. And it's really easy for her to sling mud when none of us have read her writing yet.