Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-24037587-20140911164319/@comment-25558572-20140911221833

Melodyuchiha1992 wrote: I see where you're getting at but I'm not just going to throw away the months I worked on this story and all the time I took rewriting and making it more than a couple pages. I said I was going to make this one work weather it kills me or not. I'm not trying to be mean or cruel at all but I've had several people read through this same story, some of which are writers as well and they've said good things. Again not being rude or mean but just telling someone to toss a story they have worked months on and try again isn't really helpful. It's like you're telling someone to give up because they enjoy something. So in the nicest way I can say this, instead of telling me to give up and try something else tell me if there's a way to make it better because I'm not giving up on something so many people have enjoyed reading just because it's not perfect. I will edit it or even rewrite it changing stuff around to where it looks better but I'm not scraping an idea I worked so hard on over one opinion... Again for the last time I'm not trying to be rude or mean or hateful i'm just stating my point of view on the matter. First of all, this is far from perfect. I outlined clearly for you the problems I found with it and included some ways you could have improved it. And instead of thanking me for my time, you basically just complain and imply that I'm suggesting you give up on writing as a whole. That's not what I'm saying at all.

I really don't care how long you spent on this story and you shouldn't expect anyone else to. Time and sometimes even effort do not transform something flawed into something better. If an idea itself is flawed, the story it produces is likely to be hindered by that idea and the end result will be more susceptible to flaws. I can say this from experiene because I have had multiple stories deleted due to cliches and predictability in the past despite spending at least a week on my work.

It doesn't matter how many times you rewrite this. Unless you add drastic changes to the plot and style of writing, it wil still be a forgettable and possibly deletion-worthy story. Again, I don't care how much time you spent on it. Rules are rules and trying the same thing while expecting different results will not work. Perhaps you enjoyed reading this, but I didn't and I doubt the adminstrators will either.

If you're not giving up on this idea, then you are wasting your time and mine. Writing is much harder than it looks and I'm not looking for perfection; I'm looking for hoenst effort and a willingness to TAKE criticism (instead of trying to invalidate it) and improve as a writer.