Well, is this person not entitled to their opinion? There are three ways you can handle it: Take everything they say to deeply to heart and just give up, ignore them and carry on or take what they say with a pinch of salt and use it to get better. Why someone saying that about your writing makes you not want to continue though, is completely beyond my comprehension. Is this person God? Someone you hold in very high regard? Maybe a famous author or critic? Or is it just a normal person, exactly like you, with an opinion, exactly like you, and who's willing to share that opinion? Sticks and stones may break your bones but criticism is what makes you better so use it, and if you don't care about getting better then comments shouldn't get to you in the slightest. Chin up, darling.

quote Notoriety

@Everyone else-- How was everyone's Halloween, any way?/What'd'y'all dress up as? =D

I was meant to ask that... don't know why I didn't... I think I got caught up talking about myself again... like just now.

Anyway, it was good. I got dragged into a party threw by my step-mum but it was surprisingly not terrible. I went as cliche serial killer with cheap mask I'm pretty sure a house near to mine was handing out brownies with weed in 'em to trick or treaters as well

quote Matt Addison

The nerve!

Someone just said that my writing in Eden is too illustrous, and needlessly detailed - and flippant. =[ That's really discouraging to hear that someone thinks that my writing is crap, almost makes me not want to continue...

...I think I'm going to cry now.




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its impossible to be TOO detailed.

...nothing special happened on Halloween, boring campus is boring =\

Oh, it's possible to be over-detailed, just very difficult and unnatural for most people, I haven't taken a look so I can't really say anything about this particular case >.>

In short: Criticism is only as effective or insulting as you let it be. "Too illustrious" and "too detailed" don't necessarily mean "crap".

...

Though again, this is mostly conjecture because I don't do anything here besides lurk in social topics. Whee.

quote Dragon Tamer888

its impossible to be TOO detailed.

It is possible to be too detailed. Why waste time and effort describing something that is of no importance to the story or scene?
Of course, it's possible to go the other way and only describe the important thing in any detail, thus making it jump out to the reader immediately (which is bad if, for example, it's the murder weapon or secret key disguised as a familiar object).

quote Dragon Tamer888

its impossible to be TOO detailed.

Uhm.... No.... it is possible. *stabbed* Ow. D:

Well, what I'm saying is that you don't want your entries to sound like, as TV tropes puts it, 'sexual fanfiction.'

Or just romance novels in general. [/fails to see the difference]

I don't read the stuff, but the description "*Name of a person sitting at your table*'s throbbing, quivering, slightly-damp *adverb* *adjective* *noun*" miiiiight be a bit much. :L Using normal descriptions ain't half bad, and it doesn't make a person a bad writer.

.... Damn it, now I want to play mad-libs.



Not saying that's the case with Matt-- I was just addressing detail in general.

But, yeah, people are people. We aren't a pool of thoughts swirling together in a sublimated state, so everyone has different opinions. The real point is, do you enjoy it? If you enjoy it, then there should be no reason (regardless of what anyone else says) to stop. ((And that's how serial killers are born. )) ..... Joking aside, if you enjoy writing, then you should not be deterred when others offer up their opinions or criticism. Are you writing for them, or are you writing for you? That's not to say "Ignore anything and everything negative that a person says about your work." It would be foolish to only look for praise and completely ignore any potentially helpful hints. In the end, you have to be the judge: Do you think this person might be right? Do you ever think there's room for improvement in your work? If so, and you don't let it completely crush you, you've opened up the door to potential improvement.


TL;DR-- Take it with a grain of salt.



Likewise, Lei is a masochist when it comes to her writing. The only reason I tried to get better was because someone insulted me in the first place. ♥

But the key point to that story is, even though they were the trigger, I didn't get better for their sake.

Overall, it's best not to ever let yourself get too conceited. It only makes things difficult in the long run.

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Anyway. I apologize to those of you in GS (Wrong forum. D:< ) for the wait. I am currently waiting for the entry to be PM'd back to me, so it might be a few more days before the entry is posted. I'm sorry about the halt that has been placed upon things. >_<


Also, I'm going to get angry one of these days. (Just be glad she favors the happy-stupid persona over the bitch one. )

quote Chroma

FORUM THINGS:


Yeah, about that header/footer competition.....


Y/N?



Also, I've been thinking about it recently, but on the concept of split GDs... (General and On-Topic discussions) I think I found a way it could work in our particular forums, so that we could have threads to discuss active RPs without it being a mess of different people. That is, create two or three on topic discussions and assign an alphabet ( A-G, H-O, P-Z.) and then all the RP titles that start with a certain letter will be discussed in the GD with the appropriate alphabet. ( Create Inn and Chronicles of Earth & Thrae would both be discussed in the A-G discussion, for instance. )

It could go in the gallery forum and also serve as a listing for active RPs.


Though this idea might be too much of a change, so if you disagree and think things are fine now, go ahead and state so.

But for people who don't have MSN but still want to talk about an RP/Make group plans without monopolizing the discussion in the regular GD, it might not be such a bad idea. I won't force a change if there are those who don't want it, but please think about it.


It would also cut back on excess OOCs maybe. <-- Always the one with the ulterior motive. D:

Since a simple "yes or no" would suffice for either one, I'm sure you're all more than capable of answering.


I'm the type who would much rather have confirmation of an idea being rejected, rather than be left hanging for who knows how long.



Anyway. New GD titles! Feel free to come up with them at your leisure. ^_-

And PMs. I'll get to them, so bear with it for a while longer.

Arg TvTropes fanfiction section >.<

*violent repressed memory-related hilarity ensues*

GD66: Neoseeker Roleplaying Forum Pauper Lunatic Asylum
GD66: A thread of the extremely bad negatively regarded gods
GD66: Three Threads Remain
GD66: All we ask is your mind and soul
GD66: Thread Void in Nebraska and Channel Islands
GD66: Making just the one post couldn't hurt...

ok im wrong. you CAN be too detailed.


GD 66: just six hundred more to damnaition!
GD 66: the pool of swirling thoughts
GD 66: bow before our might mites of might!
GD 66: up just in time to cringe at your post history
GD 66: eavry other GD is for suckers
GD 66: we'll get it right this time. promise.
GD 66: are we done yet!?
GD 66: unlike the cake, this is NOT a lie.
GD 66: PRAISE THINE MIGHTY LORD!... Jimmy...

GD66: Llamallamacamelcaboose Town

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My good friend Fue was out and about on Halloween, and he stumbled across some kid who was wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a brown field jacket; both very similar to garments that I wear on a daily basis. Having a soft spot for kids, Fue asks the bright-eyed tot who he is meant to be dressed as. The boy smiles and says "Indiana Jones!"

Fue stopped for a moment and pondered this before announcing that this particular costume idea was boring; everyone dresses up as Dr. Jones. Why not, suggested he-who-makes-my-cadre-of-friends-racially-diverse, claim to be dressed up as Jason Askey* instead? The child said nothing.

As Fue left to return to his vehicle he heard another passer by ask the boy who he was dressed as. This time the child gleefully replied "Jason Askey!"

*If you didn't guess, that's'a my name.

GD 66: YOU GONNA GET TAKEN HOME :3
GD 66: Stand back, I have a... WOK!

GD 66: The Sinister Spatula and The Nefarious Bake Sale Bandits

And! Would anyone be so willing as to assist me fine tuning a poem I've prepared for a magazine? We're/were on the topic of criticism, so I guess I'm offering the chance to preform it. If you're not too busy/hesitant/much of a loser, shoot me a PM about it!

I didn't really do anything for Halloween. My grandmother's funeral was the day before and was all the way in West Virginia. I had just gotten home the morning of Halloween and had to rest up.

GD 66: WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK WE ARE?!