10-04-2013, 09:34 PM
yes poems are just words, well done milo. clothes are just fabrics, hair is just molecules yet we are still insulted when someone says you have shit clothes, you have shit hair.
also, telling someone their work is shit isn't going to make them miraculously better, if they knew what to do they would've done it. you will keep writing the same way regardless, or stop, OR seek help from someone who tells you what to do, who doesn't just call it shit.
@Todd, I wasn't suggesting that the general reader be your teacher. I'm saying in the context of this forum, people are generally looking to improve their writing, so if we are to give a "critique" we should act like teachers. after all, I'm sure most writers don't hear from the majority of their readers, and when they do hear from them it doesn't involve, "you should make this or that change." It's "This worked/didnt because..." "I liked/didnt"
also, telling someone their work is shit isn't going to make them miraculously better, if they knew what to do they would've done it. you will keep writing the same way regardless, or stop, OR seek help from someone who tells you what to do, who doesn't just call it shit.
@Todd, I wasn't suggesting that the general reader be your teacher. I'm saying in the context of this forum, people are generally looking to improve their writing, so if we are to give a "critique" we should act like teachers. after all, I'm sure most writers don't hear from the majority of their readers, and when they do hear from them it doesn't involve, "you should make this or that change." It's "This worked/didnt because..." "I liked/didnt"