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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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Sometimes people ask for me to read their writing. It's always an uncomfortable experience. It's always bad, not entertaining bad or cringy bad, just zzzzz this is completely boring kind of bad. Then when you force yourself to read through it they want feedback. I don't want to lie to them like a kitty so then it just ends up them being defensive however gently I make the criticism.
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Meanwhile when I read my mom's first draft, I told her it sucked and broke down every part that was bad. She was super thankful and made improvements based on my feedback.
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At some point writers might get to that stage of 'I should actually make something worth reading'. Most people who write are doing some kind of bare my soul onto this page kind of thing though so every criticism is taken personally.
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I still don't understand the audacity one has to write something if you're not willing to face criticism for it. You should be so happy that you have someone willing to waste their time on you.
That's why we all have
@XY: READ AND GRADE OUR FRICKING FANFICTION AND TELL ME YOU LOVE ME
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