I should really not be posting right now. Half because I have nothing useful to say and half because I'm not in the best of posting moods. XD'
I've been sitting here refreshing the page on the critique forum since the professor made the thread for my story.
Three people have commented, and they seem to have liked it pretty well. I think part of my problem is that I'm honestly just fucking lazy -- I despise rewriting things. And a lot of it is that once I've finished a piece, I want it to be done: I've put in the time, the effort, and the energy, and I want to be able to set it down, push it off, and let it be. The End, Game Over, remember tip your waitress. XD
I can't believe they missed some of the stuff they missed, but I'm just laughing my ass off at the big thing no one's picked up, because I knew they wouldn't, and I'm not even entirely sure why I went that direction, because I knew they wouldn't when I wrote it in. Then again, it was kind of the unsteady basis for the entire flipping thing, so I guess it kind of has to be there. And it is too subtle. Maybe the professor will notice. Or I can just lol at all of them tomorrow. w/e. XD''
I've just felt very bleh all day thinking about it, of course, because dwelling on things always makes them better. Earlier I made a list about its uniqueness, because it's sooooo special:
The stupid banter seems to be winning people over at least a bit, as I had kind of hoped would be the case. XD I wish I was getting more comments on how much people liked Red. 'Cause I like Red. Which is my entire problem here -- I picked this up, pushed it around a lot, struggled with it, fought, won, and ended up liking it more than I'd expected to. So now I'm stupidly sentimentally attached to it, no surprise there.
The only other news (such as it is) that I have is that I finished the bizarre fic I was mentioning... and figured out what the point of the whole thing was as I stated it in the last few lines. Accidental victory, haha. XD
The umpteen-millionth reason why eltea makes my world a better place: she sent me an email today (at 1:53 AM) entitled "I was just browsing an old chat and came across, from you..."
God, I know, I hate people critiquing my things. I'm insecure about my original writing. :x I'm sure yours will go fine... Just, y'know, think about it bettering you as a writer and all that crap. XD
It went better than I'd expected it to, haha. If I'd been having a bad morning, I probably wouldn't squirmed the whole time, but it wasn't bad. XD
NO THOUGH. O-fic is... just so personal, which means that even objective critiques are, in fact, personal too. XD
I hate rewriting things, too. You've already worked so hard on it-it's like cutting up your children.
Yeah, you know? It's Done means It's Done. XD Buuuuut... I'm actually thinking I might just start this BAMF over entirely, because I've clearly lost my mind. XD'
Uhh... don't talk about yourself; state things as fact. Don't use contractions. Avoid colloquialisms. It's probably different in Korean than it is in English, so I really can't help you much.
Oh, editing's fine; editing is sometimes the most important part of the process, after writing it in the first place -- I've come to love things I hated just by changing them the right way. It's sitting down and reworking something I'm finished with that makes me twitch.
Aliens. Always impregnating the humans if not blowing their heads up. (Didn't think of that one, did you? *shakes head sadly since she knows she's insane at the moment... and walks away*)
Aliens are so amazing, aren't they? XDD I will never cease to wonder at their many and varied talents.
ikr. XD' I mean, there are things you can do in the present, word-wise, that you can't do in the past, and it does lend a sense of imminence that I like, but I tend to tell longer stories in the past tense, just because that feels like a story to me. I once read a YA novel that was in the present tense, and it was jarring the whole way through, because I kept stopping to stare at the verbs. XD
Isn't natural to be insecure about what people are going to do to your baby? Because god knows you've worked hard on it and it's something you wrote so of course you'll be attached and I would hate it if people told me it wasn't good enough. :/ But hey, you said the comments you've received were pretty positive so far right? So hopefully everyone else will think so. And even if they don't, you'll just have to blow their minds away the next time. Like those aliens. ;D
Yeah, they actually weren't TOO bad. And most of the negative comments were things I'd thought about. A lot of my concern was that... I really don't like some of the people in the class, because they always have this Tone to their voice when they criticize, but it wasn't quite as hurtful as I expected, omglol. XDD
:) That's good then. I'm glad! Eh, yeah, the tones they use sometimes, as if they know everything about you and want to bring you down is just...plain MEAN. Pfft.
Whenever people critique my things, I always get so nervous, like, "OMG what if it sucked?" etc, etc. Rewriting things is haaaaard.
I hate rewriting new things, but if I've had a few years to sit on them, I tend to actually WANT to rewrite them.
Hmm, so you get responses on a forum, eh? I can't decide if that sounds better than having everyone going around in a circle talking about you for half an hour or not.
Well, yeah, there's that. XD It's just that I hate reworking stuff little by little and having to angle the whole plot differently to make up for something I sort of shoved together... even though the fact that I know I shoved it together means I should be willing to fix it. XD
Well, people have to write a page-long (ish XD) critique, and you post it to the forum before going to class. You also print out a copy and staple it to the back of the scribbled-on copy you were given, which you give back after everyone has sat around the table talking about the story for forty-five minutes. So it's both. XD
My thoughts exactly. Tbh, I'm not sure what I'm dreading more- WriMo or EditMo. Or doing repeat drafts of my creative writing coursework for English, but at least that shouldn't keep me up too late.
Haha, I've never had the fortitude to follow up with EditMo... which is probably why the one full novel that I wrote during WriMo in '06 is a big, crazy, over-worded mess. :DDD