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Princess Callie wrote: [...]There's no point in hiding an opinion or, and yes, this is exactly what it is, sugarcoating exactly what you think about it. Do you think that HELPS the writer develop?

Not even close. It took getting told my writing was total and complete shit for me to even try to remotely improve. It shows that you want to be a writer, like Guy said.

Glad to know I'm not alone -- it's been the cruelest critiques that have made me better as a writer because I wanted to prove that they were wrong. I wanted to do better just to spite them. If anyone had coddled me, like Dubious is suggesting we do, I can't imagine I'd've come this far. Why improve if you're already doing well, right?