chainedcoffin:

ofmanynames:

sventhecrusader:

rowdyravens:

those posts criticizing common writing patterns in fanfiction are so fucking harmful and they ruined me

so like yknow what??? People tell you to avoid “smirk” and “chuckle” as descriptors because no one does those things (???) but then when I need to use those words I have a ten minute crisis about how I’m a shitty writer. So heres my unwarranted writing advice: If you want your characters to smirk and chuckle fucking let them and don’t let anyone tell you that no one smirks or chuckles because I do both on a daily basis whenever I tell a shitty pun, bye 

Edgy fanfiction critics can eat my entire ass.

Seriously all this. All those posts and people who decide to ‘give me advice’ on how to write make me want to write 1000% less than I already do.

This post is uhhhh bad because criticism is important and helps you grow as a writer?? However, I do agree with OP that those common writing mistakes posts are not great.

Not because they’re “fucking harmful” to you by giving general advice, but because they fall into the same pit as bad grade school teachers by giving absolute advice. Fact of the matter is, all of the advice those posts give is useful, but NONE of it is true in absolutely every circumstance. All of it has to be taken with a grain of salt, but it’s never framed that way.

It’s important to know rules and conventions when you write but it’s equally important to know when to break them. I remember my sister getting a C for a writing assignment in school because she had the sense to know that a hillbilly character would not speak in “proper English” but her 50-year-old teacher did not.

So yes, criticism can be stupid and shitty and you shouldn’t always listen to it (even if you’re 10). But um… no, you are not victimized by people online sharing writers tips’. Read the tips, absorb them, and then apply them only where they are useful. OP already had the sense to do that, apparently they were just really salty about having to do so.