User blog comment:Memai/Why I cannot take your OC seriously./@comment-1824274-20120208192811/@comment-4369319-20120209010353

I'll say whatever I want to, man; I don't mince my words and I don't pull any punches. Honesty is the best policy and all, you dig? If I had worded this any nicer, this entire thing would've gone unnoticed in a stream of "I don't want to offend anybody but..."

I'm harsh man, but I'm no troll. Cool? Cool.

Also, I think I know who you're talking about, regarding the whole mental breakdown over a critique? In my years of lurking on the interwebs, that is literally *the* worst overreaction I've seen to a critique, hands down. Just because one mack-daddy can't take the heat, doesn't mean everyone else has to back down in fear of offending someone else. We're all made of tougher stuff.

The way I see it is this: if your work is as good as you think it is, it can stand up to a few honest opinions about it.

Also, way to be defensive. If you're writing for shits and giggles, fine. But you know, state that it's not a very serious fic to begin with. When you put up "hahaha this is just for fun" type of fics, people start thinking putting things up like that on a community is a-okay. It sets a terrible standard for newcomers to follow. If other people see that you/me/us/them put the time and effort into our writing, things will fall into line, man.

Don't get me wrong, you -CAN- post up whatever fic you want, but if it's just for self-satisfaction, don't expect a lot of other people to care.

And like Prof said, this post was aimed more towards people who are a shade more serious about who they're writing for.

And no one ever makes good characters from the get go. In order to be good, you have to start off bad. You can't improve otherwise. I know I've made my fair share of awful characters, Roxy's first incarnations in the fanfiction scene wasn't exactly good. But people critiqued my work, tore down her character, now she's much more interesting and well balanced!

On the note of critiquing getting out of hand? Critiques don't mean I tear you a new one every time you get a line of syntax wrong. Critiques are meant to build you up and in order to do that, it has to include things like what you did right, what was interesting as well as things you did wrong or what was so boring about your work. It's supposed to be constructive. It's supposed to be an analytical look into your work.

And unless you're writing a drivel like Twilight? You don't have much to worry about XD