GabrielKross It depends. Some advice is useful. Structural criticism is the best kind of criticism, because it's not personal, and it actually points at the underlying problems of the story itself, rather than subjective, emotional feedback.

I'm actually happy for constructive criticism. Like when someone points out, "okay, your transition is pretty bad here, there's not much flow here." Or "what is your character's goal? It doesn't seem clear here." The mechanical issues. "The conflict seems absent" or "the climax seems to be placed at an odd place." Maybe grammar and spelling mistakes. "You have a typo here." "Punctuation is missing here." "Dont flunctuate between present and past tenses."

However, a lot of the criticism or feedback consist of "this character is stupid." "MC is spineless/weak/retarded." Or he's an idiot. Or "story is boring." Or "story is s*." That's not useful at all. I'm not writing a story to pander to your particular taste of super-smart, genius, overpowered protagonists. I'm trying to slowly develop him from weak to strong. Now if I get something on pacing, I am happy. For example, "these scenes seem to drag on" or "the climax feels too rushed" or "the standoff is too slow." However, if your complaints about pacing is "why is he still so weak at chapter 20 (when it's a 500-chapter story)?" that's not about pacing, that's you just wanting a strong protagonist, which is not what my story is about.

You have to learn to filter which is the right and useful advice and which is subjective and overly emotional - usually from readers who get upset because you're not writing the story THEY want to read (the sense of entitlement here is unreal). As I said, usually the most helpful criticism is structural. Because it doesn't get too personal or emotional and actually addresses the underlying problems of the story, not making it all about "how dare you not write the story that I want to read?!".

      @AI380 Never got to say thank you for opening this discussion and being brave to express your experience.

      It's cool to see you're not alone in this, right?

      That's why I said your on an Artist Writer path.

      All influential writers of our age faced similar situations. Even JK Rowlings face countless known and unknown rejections and zero show of love and support for her writing before Harry Potter.

      So I'll express again. keep at it. Learn. Try. Do. Believe that you can deliver a story another will be eager to read.

      You've got this!

      AI380 I know how that feels😭 I really do. It's just that there isn't much you can do about it. All you need to do is write a good story, put it out there and wait. You can do some advertising on social media and other sites but don't expect much.

        AI380 I know how that feels😭 I really do. It's just that there isn't much you can do about it. All you need to do is write a good story, put it out there and wait. You can do some advertising on social media and other sites but don't expect much.

          Veronica8 😂😂yep.. sorry bout that!!
          (っ˘з(˘⌣˘ ) here's a kiss to make up. I like to get in the moments first before knowing what i'm doing. It might put some readers off, but yeah!! I'm working hard to improve myself as the time goes by.ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ

              AI380 It is an improvement!!! It looks good in my opinion.

              But, I think your drawing looks empty in the background. You could added something like a throne room or the vast land and sky.(If you want to) Use first person of view to draw the background.

              Starting from the characters, as the background getting farther, everything will look small. It make the space around the characters looks bigger.

              The cat's face can also be refined more. But, anything else is good. The colouring, their interaction and their clothes design.

                  Carciphones_02 I have adjusted the cat face, right now I'm not sure what to add in the background.

                      Carciphones_02 oops. Sorry I wasn't directing comment to you. Just a general observation.

                      Cause I've read stories where the writer is free forming. Still a great story, but also leaves me confused. To a story that follows a structure.

                          Tomoyuki or my posts just rub you off the wrong way?

                          Mostly this..

                          Like in this thread. Judging from past experiences, I simply doubted your claim on not caring about criticism.(Was I being Nasty? A bit. Do I target you in particular? Nope, you just happen to post plenty of things that I find inconsistent)

                          Yet you, instead of saying something along the lines of “Past is past, I’m now a Tomo that doesn’t care after all that I’ve experienced.” decided to get all defensive with sarcasm.

                          Now when do people get defensive, I wonder?

                          P.S. Not to mention that your sarcasm is a bit over the top... All I said is “Really now?” and suddenly we’re on the topic of deleting your novel.. Quite honestly, my reaction was literally “???”

                              Sythcake Tomoyuki

                              Guys. I understand you have your differences, but let's not turn this thread into a verbal match. Last thing we want is to give Yue-bot a reason to lock this thread.

                              Let's respect the OP here, and their intentions for this thread. There's been some great advice and personal experiences shared. If we keep it objective, all is cool.

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