User blog comment:ChristianWallis/Tenses, Aspects, Mood and Voice/@comment-25226524-20161020220320/@comment-28266772-20161021145955

I don't actually find it too demoralising to offer feedback. It's been a very helpful process for improving my own writing. I had one guy who I started to really get annoyed with because he'd repost his story, message me, and I'd get half way through annotating his 4000 word story and realise he'd made less than 10% of the changes I'd suggested. And these changes were just mechanical things, they weren't even hard work. That had me banging my head against the keyboard. And he'd keep fucking doing it! I had to do this with like three stories and each one had like six drafts XD He was very persistent so I never felt like I had good reason to ignore him but damn... I considered it on a few occasions.

And that noid thing is just fucking surreal. I'm still processing it. My advertising company is running its first TV ad and I tried convincing them to go down the annoying-as-fuck route but I was out-voted. I just wish I could contribute something as stupidly pointless and weird as the noid or a car insurance company run by a meerkat.