User blog comment:Banned In CP/Common Flaws in CP Writing/@comment-10502460-20180210033731/@comment-28266772-20180213163613

It's a mixed bag. On one hand the advice issue won't fix lazy writers. People who can't be bothered to do the bare minimum won't read an advice blog either. However, the people who can be bothered will benefit immensely. I don't think we'll ever be in a position where we don't have to worry about 800-word blocks of text about Jeff the Killer 2: Electric Boogaloo. The simple truth is many of those users need a place where they can get feedback if they want to, but will otherwise typically try something out, realise it's hard, and then immediately abandon it. I did the same when I was fourteen (I was once the terror of writing forums everywhere).

But some people do persist, and if even just one finds something useful in those blogs then that makes it 100% worth it. I've given a lot of feedback on the WW that is just flat out ignored, and in a lot of cases reacted to with great hostility, but every now and again someone takes the advice and works with it.

Also I am a firm believer that feedback, criticism and writing blogs is just as helpful to the user giving feedback as it is to the person receiving it. I don't think anything has helped me improve my writing as much as the WW, and that's just because dissecting other people's writing has directed me towards my own errors and mistakes. Want to know why run-on sentences suck? Try reading a 4000 story where the writer uses six full-stops.

Also if you write an advice blog and it's good then we'll add it to the advice blog list. Anyone can contribute.