[ SECRET POST #155 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #155 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 05 pages, 114 secrets from Secret Submission Post #023.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, 0 not!secrets, 0 not!fandom.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Sunday, June 10th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: Here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The one person I have witnessed criticising you did so fairly and was well within the boundaries of constructive criticism. They mentioned the characters were out of character, and that you had gotten several major facts incorrect - the whereabouts of Castle Oblivion, for example. Your reaction to that comment showed you being incredibly defensive and acting as though you were being deeply insulted - which puts people off concriting you, because they do not want to deal with that kind of reaction. Concritting an author who refuses to listen is pointless.

For me, your writing seems effortless. It seems like you haven't tried, that you don't think it's worth spending much time on. Which, in a way, is an insult to those of us who spend weeks writing a single one shot. All it takes is a beta-reader, and the grammar issues are gone. All it takes is a few days extra thought, re-writing sections indiscriminately, and the story can improve tenfold. All it takes is a little more care and devotion.

To me, it doesn't seem like you love your story, or your writing. It just looks like you enjoy to attention it garners you.

Your fics are not canon, at all. I'm sorry, but you must be working on an entirely different wavelength to the rest of us, because a lot of people can not see the canon in your stories.