Stellabrownee
New member
During a group workshop today where we all read each others work and take turns sitting and waiting and being silent until they finish commenting. The group kinda...threw a bit of harsh comments on my writing...and ever since I've felt embarrassed and completely discouraged. I like to write...but I can't seem to get over the comments they said about my story. They did not like it.
The assignment was to write 1 page like you're writing a novel and a summary.
I admit, it wasn't that good for me considering I kinda rushed it and wrote it in 2 hours...but still..it wasn't THAT bad to me. Plus I couldn't figure out how to say what I need in the beginning without frickin spoiling the ending. The beginning ended up sounding like your average fairy tale revenge story, but when it progresses in the story it gets BETTER, but how do you say all that without spoiling the whole story in the beginning?!
I really feel crappy, I don't want to think about my stories or even write them anymore...I'm worried I'll get the same reaction as they did. They over did it for me today, they could've said they needed to say and then move on, but they spent like 30 min on mine. >_<
I was thankful I didn't start tearing up there. They used the kinda harsh critisising a critic would use reviewing a movie...
I want to write stories, I like to. But I don't want to anymore because of this, I feel like tossing all of my work in a trash bin and never looking at it again. even the professor butted into this conversation over my story D:
What should I do?? I don't take harsh negative comments (even if they are supposed to be helpful in order for you to improve) very well...I may have handled it if they didn't spend that long talking bout negative stuff about my story.
I KNOW this is a way for us to know what we need to fix, but I feel totally discouraged now, I don't have the same feelings for writing anymore, I feel sick whenever I try writing or even think about my stories. Help D:
The assignment was to write 1 page like you're writing a novel and a summary.
I admit, it wasn't that good for me considering I kinda rushed it and wrote it in 2 hours...but still..it wasn't THAT bad to me. Plus I couldn't figure out how to say what I need in the beginning without frickin spoiling the ending. The beginning ended up sounding like your average fairy tale revenge story, but when it progresses in the story it gets BETTER, but how do you say all that without spoiling the whole story in the beginning?!
I really feel crappy, I don't want to think about my stories or even write them anymore...I'm worried I'll get the same reaction as they did. They over did it for me today, they could've said they needed to say and then move on, but they spent like 30 min on mine. >_<
I was thankful I didn't start tearing up there. They used the kinda harsh critisising a critic would use reviewing a movie...
I want to write stories, I like to. But I don't want to anymore because of this, I feel like tossing all of my work in a trash bin and never looking at it again. even the professor butted into this conversation over my story D:
What should I do?? I don't take harsh negative comments (even if they are supposed to be helpful in order for you to improve) very well...I may have handled it if they didn't spend that long talking bout negative stuff about my story.
I KNOW this is a way for us to know what we need to fix, but I feel totally discouraged now, I don't have the same feelings for writing anymore, I feel sick whenever I try writing or even think about my stories. Help D: