Some bad, some good

[maderr]

Most of my day sucked. By lunchtime I was ready to commit mass murder, and finding yet more bloody wank to Prisoner did not help my mood. But Sammikins is, as ever, far too kind to me. And I dared to check more comment notifications, and found that another competitor gave me a really nice comment, and his one crit was one I will take (more plot, less dialogue, heh). Plus, there was some hilarity toward the end of work that helped bring my mood back around.

Though, speaking of work, I'm tired of being the nice guy. Sick of it. She wants to fucking be a bitch and cheat me and leave me out and go against direct orders? Fine. If she's not gonna have my back, I'm done having hers. She can dig her own goddamn grave, I'm not going to continue helping her. Fuck it.

Now I have a metric fuckton of laundry to do. >_o

Comments

[mechante-fille.livejournal.com]

Easier said than done, but the bloody wank is to be ignored, because it doesn't even make any sense. I just read through the first few pages looking for extra adjectives, and there were maybe a couple that weren't absolutely necessary, but they certainly helped paint a clearer picture of a world the reader is just entering. I was wondering if the eye color thing is what they are talking about, but even at the very beginning you can see that it has meaning beyond purple prose. ...you could even say, perhaps, that making eye color actually important was a tongue in cheek send up to the romance novels of your youth. Or some such thing. ;)

Also, I liked what Doug had to say, and how he said it. It doesn't surprise me that a middle-aged married guy isn't interested in that particular book, but he took the time to read and offer non-wank concrit. Yay Doug!

Good luck with the work thing. *hugs* And the laundry.

[sixpence1323.livejournal.com]

The people on BookHabit are like the people one FP - full of shit. Ignore 'em.

"Metric fuckton" - heh heh. ^_^ That made me laugh.

[moonkitsune.livejournal.com]

In all honesty, those comments made me laugh. I've already stated that I like your style but, being a major fan of descriptions, I really thought the comments on being too descriptive where hilarious. It's my opinion that you could build more on description but after reading the first chapter, I found that it provided just the nice dash of imagery to leave me satisfied, as I usually am. I also took into account that none of the comments against you gave you any examples or things to build upon. Anyone can say something against a piece of work, but they need to back it up with some evidence. If they don't, then there is no point in taking it into consideration if they do not give you anything to better your writing with.

[maderr.livejournal.com]

Honestly it's the wank of it that irks most. If they said why they thought that, or gave examples, I could take it better. It's the sheer half-assedness of it that bothers me. People need to grow up.

[moonkitsune.livejournal.com]

If it's one superpower I would want, it's an instant maturity beam. Sadly, we just have to live with the immaturity and riffle though the good and the pointless criticism.

[avalon13.livejournal.com]

D: It saddens me that not everybody thinks that Prisoner was your bestest piece EVAR. Oh but Meg, out of all your characters, wonderful as they are, Dieter spoke to me the most, somehow, captured my attention the most. It wasn't that he was rugged, and manly, and hot to trot, but somehow.

I always connected his story to real life somehow, to marriages where no one actually loves one another, and the child doesn't seem to know where they're going. And I always thought,that 'holy shit they're going to grow up screwed up' and there was Dieter, and I thought it must be hard to have to be harsh all the time. And that's why Dieter will always be my shnookums.