All right, I don't think I understood all that. Ahem. But most of it! :D
Personally, I really want to learn to write better, but I mainly write for the enjoyment of myself/the community, in order to get an idea out of my head, sometimes to show a character/his actions from a new point of view - and, I admit it, for positive feedback. Now, in defense of myself I must say that I've been suffering from severe bouts of depression for the past two or three years now and that when you're thinking that you're utterly useless and the world would be better off if you'd never been born, a review along the lines of "This is great! I really liked it! Write more please!" does wonders. Although a more detailed comment is always more pleasant, even an "OMG this is cool!!11" will give me a boost - and I imagine I'm not the only one. I'm not so enamored by negative feedback/major con-crit mostly because it has exactly the opposite effect on me as positive feedback. I also have a far too thin skin and tend to react badly to negative feedback, although I really try not to. Also, my writing has improved by leaps and bounds since I started writing fanfiction, and I've barely had any constructive crit worthy of the name (apart from the occasion "I think you meant 'marble' when you said 'marmor'" *g*). So I don't see con-crit as essential to improving ones writing. However, I guess I'm very much in the minority here!
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Date: 2004-01-07 08:05 am (UTC)Personally, I really want to learn to write better, but I mainly write for the enjoyment of myself/the community, in order to get an idea out of my head, sometimes to show a character/his actions from a new point of view - and, I admit it, for positive feedback.
Now, in defense of myself I must say that I've been suffering from severe bouts of depression for the past two or three years now and that when you're thinking that you're utterly useless and the world would be better off if you'd never been born, a review along the lines of "This is great! I really liked it! Write more please!" does wonders. Although a more detailed comment is always more pleasant, even an "OMG this is cool!!11" will give me a boost - and I imagine I'm not the only one.
I'm not so enamored by negative feedback/major con-crit mostly because it has exactly the opposite effect on me as positive feedback. I also have a far too thin skin and tend to react badly to negative feedback, although I really try not to. Also, my writing has improved by leaps and bounds since I started writing fanfiction, and I've barely had any constructive crit worthy of the name (apart from the occasion "I think you meant 'marble' when you said 'marmor'" *g*). So I don't see con-crit as essential to improving ones writing. However, I guess I'm very much in the minority here!