Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-10319977-20151014231140/@comment-26326346-20151015185046

ColorlessAngelz wrote: I enjoy constructive criticism, but I would greatly appreciate for it to be in moderation. I don't recall seeing a single bit of positive input in this whole thread.

You're going about this the wrong way, in my opinion. Praise and positive comments are good and all, but without criticism you can't grow as a writer. All of the negative comments in this instance are actually far more meaningful than praise would be, because it shows that all of these users are taking the time to try and help you become a better writer.

Sure, people can praise your stories, but that praise isn't going to help you if they don't pass the quality standards. I'm not saying that you can't handle the criticisms, but I feel that you and your stories would be better served if tried to follow at least 3/4 of them. People aren't coming in this thread just to screw with you, they want to help you get your stories to where they can stay on the site.

Like I said before, I feel that you have ideas that would work, but you need to elaborate/expand on them more in the story. If you have to explain how the story works outside of the story then you have failed to do your job as an author. Your works should be able to speak for themselves and be enough to leave an impression on people.

Micropasta is the hardest thing to tackle, heck, I've only done it once and with great difficulty. I'll probably never tackle a micropasta again because of how difficult it was to get right and to make satisfying.

I respectfully request that you re-evaluate what you want from your writing and why you are writing. If you are writing to entertain people (this is what I feel that everyone should write for, the audience is what'll spread your stories and should be appreciated above one's own talent) than you would be better off making these stories longer or holding off on them and practice by writing longer works and coming back to them after you have more experience.

Between all of the replies that I have seen you make on here and on a bunch of the admin talk pages, you could have actually extended all of these to full length pasta, so I know you can do it.

If you are worried about wasting the reader's time with a long story, than you should also worry about it with a micropasta. You shouldn't worry about how much of their time that you might waste, but rather the fact that you would waste any of their time, because as I have said, your audience is the most important thing for you. I'm not trying to imply that you don't respect them, but I am suggesting that you do if you don't.

Godspeed ColorlessAngelz.