I finished writing my manuscript and no one cared :marseycry:

https://old.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/16h9ul8/i_finish_my_manuscript_and_no_one_cared?context=8

Why does a neighbor expect praise for accomplishing a goal

Your writing is just words till it affects someone, either makes them reflect, cry, sneed, enraged, fricking something. Only people getting praise for simple finishing a work are writers with a history of delivering

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I mean. If it was my kid I'd at least read it at a minimum and give my critiques at the max.

Blind praise isn't healthy but neither is total apathy

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Gay take. I would slam a coors, burp loudly in their face reeking of beer breath and skol, and ask if an AI could have wrote what they made. When I see their soul is crushed, I would follow up with “so you're gonna work at the trash incinerator like your old man, yeah? Work a real job?” That way if they're truly dedicated to their craft then they would use that experience which haunts them for the rest of their life, competing against LLMs to make the a novel that is completely unprecedented, and probably blow my fricking head off with a shotgun as they rightfully should. That's how greatness is made.

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Just throw them into the trash incinerator

problem solved

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Gay take

Yeah it's why we're on rdrama

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Well, yes. But you see, I am r-slurred (which is also why I'm on rDrama), so I glossed over that.

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You're my huckleberry

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