Degree in babbling
Jul. 6th, 2004 06:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Blogging Degree
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::snicker:: Oh, how true the babbling thing is. And possibly the psychotic ramblings.
I did lots of nice work today and had absolutely no feedback for the draft of something that I put up for my college group project. As this is a group portion of the project, I sort of expected someone would at least say "whee, nice, go with it" or (even more helpfully) "urk, please use a different quote/replace the third paragraph/spell Internet properly". But no. I checked the history and everyone has read the draft (yesterday) and has not deigned to say anything. And people wonder why I hate group projects?
And while I'm in a ranty mood, I noticed someone posting to one of the lists I'm on (er, people may guess which list but I'm not naming it) to ask why no one had replied to their fanfic. I presume this is a thoroughly unsubtle way of asking why no one had feedback-ed them.
::le sigh::
If your fanfic was worth writing feedback for, my dear, then I'm sure someone would have. Unfortunately, you've probably offended so many people with your crappy spelling and zero researched BDSM, not to mention your ego-driven drivel-ridden chat posts, that nobody even wants to take the time to suggest you get a beta reader. Guh.
I want to go to a con. I know that I have SG-8 in November, but Toronto Trek sound so fun and I miss the joy of cons. Unfortunately, counting the days until SG-8 means counting the days until my research project has to be submitted and that would just panic me.
I am also incredibly thirsty, have been all day, and no amount of water makes me feel better. Grr.
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Date: 2004-07-06 05:40 pm (UTC)::le sigh::
If your fanfic was worth writing feedback for, my dear, then I'm sure someone would have. Unfortunately, you've probably offended so many people with your crappy spelling and zero researched BDSM, not to mention your ego-driven drivel-ridden chat posts, that nobody even wants to take the time to suggest you get a beta reader. Guh.
SOOOOOOOOOOOOO true! i had to STOP reading b/f i demolished my computer, fragment by fragment!
i have a hard time writing to tell ppl i LIKE their stuff... now she wants folks to write in - and i'd have nothing but vile and uncomplimentary things to say... that's SO not going to happen. there's not one single thing i could point out that correcting would help redeem her fic! it's not like she made ONE error, and w/ it's fixing, things were all happy again.
usually, when it's one or two niggling things that get to me, i can write and be polite, but i'm not sure my keyboard could withstand the incendiary things i'd be OH SO TEMPTED to say!
y'ain't the only one m'dear!
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Date: 2004-07-07 03:06 pm (UTC)I had a feeling that I wasn't *g* I hate publicly naming and shaming on public forums, but I was so tempted to do it in this case. Instead I just ranted anonymously. The problem is that if I write to someone and I'm incredibly angry, they often don't notice. Y'see, the angrier I am with someone, the politer I get. I used to send frostily polite letters to companies when I was working and most of the time they didn't notice that the incredibly, painfully polite letters were actually well-disguised cold fury. I couldn't even write to this person and tell her to stop being a complete fuckwit because I just can't use language like that without working very hard at it. And I certainly can't tell her that to her face (so to speak).
It should be illegal to demand feedback. Even for good fanfic. And that stuff is *so* not good fanfic. Blech.