Friday, March 4, 2011

kind of a whining

there was this guy on the online literary site who saw a couple of paragraphs from my manuscript. he was quite unimpressed i guess.

he kept telling me it was 'bad', the 'words were unsuitable', and finally that 'even an 8-year old does better'.
i see his point: he doesn't like my writing.
no problem with that.
but for god's sake.
putting his opinion this way is anything but helpful.
i asked him a couple of times to make his point clearer.
i asked him to name actual failures.
like... 'the verb in the second sentence (in paragraph 3) does not suit the action.' or.... 'when Margaret seeks advice from his father, there are too many blah sentences between them'...
like... i think you get it.
but no, he kept repeating that is was bad completely and kept referring to people who decided to throw away complete manuscripts....
so, i kindly asked him to leave it alone.
just leave it alone.

3 comments:

Charles Gramlich said...

trolls are everywhere it seems, and not very helpful. Sorry you stirred one up. :(

SzélsőFa said...

thank you Charles.

this man may have authored 11 books, which he actually did, but he can't criticize properly that's for sure.

Vesper said...

What a low character! I'm sorry you had this bad experience.
Have you read any of his work?