Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries, you second hand donkeybottom biter you! Now go away before I taunt you a second time.
Wow. I just went with, "I fart in your general direction."
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries, you second hand donkeybottom biter you! Now go away before I taunt you a second time.
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries, you second hand donkeybottom biter you! Now go away before I taunt you a second time.
Wow. I just went with, "I fart in your general direction."
...when an obvious sock puppet was afoot.
I stopped critting in SYW because of the snark in there. If I'm going to be held to good comments only, fuck it. I'm tired of defending myself. Don't take the suggestion, but don't tell me that something I say from experience is wrong or stupid, it's counterproductive.Very true. The weaker someone's convictions or beliefs are, the more upset they get about any challenge.
I have not participated in SYW for a long time, but when I did I tried to keep my comments as constructive as possible. I think the only time I got snarky was when an obvious sock puppet was afoot.
A-1 sauce.Of course I regret crap that I post. In fact, I stick my foot in my mouth so much around here that all I can taste is sock, half the time.
(goes nicely with ketchup)
Jerkwad.
Anyone who posts things they regret is a ___ and a ____!
*gasp*
That was WAY over the line! I'm telling. You're a meanie-weenie.
___________________ _____ ___ _______ __!!!!!!!!!!!
I win.
In an attempt to fuck with IRU's head, I am about to post something sensible.
About my earlier posts where I denigrated the warm and fuzzy folks. I noticed after that, some people got defensive. It's inevitable after posting the way I did some would rise up and say "What you call warm and fuzzy, I call being polite."
Similarly, what you call being unnecessarily rude, I call 'telling it like it is'.
As an example, I once read someone's first chapter and I swear on Colin Farrell's left nut, the strongest thing I said was, "You haven't given us a reason to care about the MC. It's all melodrama and no background. Sure, they're upset, but why should I, as a reader, care that they are? I'm not emotionally invested."
OuchWell. It all kicked off then. End result was the writer concerned said I'd almost driven them to give up writing and things got really ugly online - as in blog posts they thought I couldn't see and messages on other fora, likewise.
So often when someone says "I want an honest crit," they don't mean it. Or their level of 'honest' is different from mine. And I just don't have the time to fanny about stroking someone's ego.
There will always be people who find offence in what you say, write, post here, blog about, or express in any way. There will always be clashes of personality. We can adjust our presentation style so as not to deliberately cause offence, I'll admit - but when it comes to watering down the message so the original intent isn't there any more and we're all about pussyfooting around some precious snowflake's delicate personality, rather than improving our craft?
I know I offend plenty of people here.
So I can't please everyone. I don't even try. I'd rather put my energies into the thing I love above all else, even popularity:
Writing.
I trust your head is well and truly fuckered.