Snoink

The words "positive" and "negative" are completely arbitrary, defined by the recipient of the critique. So therefore, writing about "positive" reviews vs. "negative" reviews is pointless, which is why

Incan -- Her language is simple -- don't over-read it. It is what it is. Your offense to it is silly. :P Best, Snoink

*sobs* My life is ruined now... But oh well. Don't kill everyone randomly... otherwise it's too predictable. ;)

Poor Imp's original article, she never even mention the words "positive" or "negative." Therefore, my diagnosis is that Incan and Sponson have eyes that are starting to go into the ...

"Hey, I've been there too and I wrote this one really sucky story that tried to use the same thing." Except then you'd, you know, be calling their story sucky ...

Yeah, exactly. It is important to focus on the whole instead of the part, so though line-by-line critiquing can be useful, if the poem is written strangely and needs to ...

All too frequently, there's this HORRIBLE story or poem and we look at it and say, "No friggin' way." Sometimes, we can just ignore it and let some other person ...

Shall I be blunt? ;) You're going for style, but you're not going for clarity. So, instead of Piers wandering around aimlessly, you are wandering around aimlessly, hoping that perhaps ...

I also think (as has been mentioned countless times) that it's silly to argue with people who critique your poem or when you have, as they say down here in ...

Sometimes, on YWS, you will see a critique that just makes your blood boil and you want to put said-critiquer's head into a blender and just turn it on full ...

Reviewers have no business telling the authors what they should do with their novel. Besides, if you "demand" things, then people usually do the opposite of what you demand. It's ...

Just daydream. It'll come to you. :D

Hahaha... but, at the same time, if you make everything active, then it's annoying to read. The passive tense can be used in AMAZINGLY good ways. Obviously, you're not going ...

Force yourself to write. One thing that helps me is starting several different beginnings on the same Word document, except you vary the styles. Like, you can have a boring ...

Hmm... 1. I have to agree and disagree. When you're writing, you're going to write a lot of crap, so you probably just want to get all the crap out ...