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Vengeance1701… You ask do I honestly want constructive criticism?

Yes… Simply yes I want constructive criticism… However Dictionary.com explains constructive criticism as, “Criticism or advice that is useful and intended to help or improve something, often with an offer of possible solutions…” (You can also look it up on the Wikipedia)

Again I’m just quoting what others have provided and sorry if this further insults them…

lampy’s response seemed to indicate that he/she failed to understand the concept that possible alien biology is different from human biology… using Star Trek as an example, it would be like someone asking “Why do Klingon's have those lumps on their foreheads.” (And that’s not done because it’s just accepted that’s how Klingon's appear, so is it too far fetched to believe a Gloob, a fictional construct in a sci-fi story might look the way they do…)

Oh yes at the root of it, this wasn’t constructive criticism, then again it wasn’t criticism… it was just a failure to understand, and not caused by my writing.

JONJONAUG: again not constructive criticism, there is no reasoning for why this person thinks my art is mediocre or why he thinks my writing style is bad.. The only thing that has been said here that is of any use is “needs a lot of editing and revision.” But again I ask and I hate to do this but what needs editing… there must be certain points that are the worst, things that the person could have taken the time to point out so I could fix them…

Dr. Otto: Well I should apologize to you, you might be right that I used the term "Smiling Lea't" too many times (this is constructive criticism…) However if this is the single complain with my work does it really ruin it or are you expecting too much form me… Anyway you don’t need to answer this, it’s just a matter for thought.

transformative: Thank you, for both taking the time to respond to my response and tell me that, that phrase repeated over again was your problem and thank you for pointing out there were some positives to my story.


Okay back to you Vengeance1701, again I reiterate, yes I do want constructive criticism, but constructive is the key word and as addition criticism should be based on merit not on someone’s personal taste… If something is based around someone’s personal taste it should be said like, “I didn’t really like this because it wasn’t a topic I liked…” and never, “This sucked” or “This blew…”

Maybe the moderators of this site should look into encouraging people who are going to comment to observe what I have said about so you can allow what’s left of your writers and artists who you don’t borrow from other sources to know what is personal views and what is useful comments.


Dawn.

P.S. Seeing I now consider due to the nature of this thread that any work I could post to this site would be tainted… I have decided not to waste my own time or your’s by posting my crap here…

Oh and just so nobody jumps down my throat when I used the term borrow in the phrase, “borrow from other sources” I don’t mean stealing, I mean some of the work on this site is posted direct and some of the stuff comes from other sources, I suggesting you reform posting rules so that for the local posts, there is a way to define personal views from useful comments

Yes I know reforming things seem like hard work but maybe in the end such changes will make a better site for all and a site where artists / writers will be abundant once more.