Subject: Can I like formally not be a member of the PPC anymore?
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Posted on: 2015-03-07 19:13:00 UTC
All I ever do is make people mad and bother them with silly Suevian OCs that aren't any good at all and report badfics that no one cares about and bother people and annoy Neshomeh and make a fool of myself. All of you are too cool and interesting for me can I just leave
Slow down a bit. I think your perception of the Board is something different from what it actually is - we don't get mad when an OC is posted, but we do try and make it into a well-rounded character if it is Suevian. Don't take criticism as something against you as an author, but as advice to help you improve and grow. You can leave if you wish... But I think that staying will help you as a writer in the long run.
I don't have enough experience with constructive criticism I think. People keep just praising me IRL and I think that's messed with my head a bit, and I am kind of extremely emotionally immature even for a thirteen year old, so I don't know how to handle people saying critical things even if Ineed to hear them. I'm sorry I made this post (and I hadn't calmed down when I did). I'm acting like every annoying teenager author I've ever seen in a mission who asks for reviews and then gets mad about the negative ones. I'm sorry about this. Thank you for the review. I don't know what to do with Yama, though.
When I was naught but a green newbie (I'm an oldbie? Weird) one very, very smart member of this community, long since gone (Where are you, EllipsisFlood?) told me a very important thing: ConCrit hurts. It's easy to shrug off flames - every Suethor can do that! - but ConCrit hurts because it pokes where it hurts, so to speak; it tells you exactly what you're doing wrong and nobody likes to hear that they're wrong. The thing is to accept the ConCrit and to learn from it despite its less-than-sweet packaging. Neh?
“A lesson without pain is meaningless, for you cannot gain anything without sacrificing something else in return, but once you have overcome it and made it your own... you will gain an irreplaceable fullmetal heart.” -Hiromu Arakawa - a wise cow indeed.
I created a character when I was fifteen, now twelve years later; after her world had 8 reboots and she had 7 redesigns, at least 2 character mergings, innumerable retcons, being thrown into the future for the sake of plot, involved with various cosmic shenanigans for the lulz and then yanked back for small polishing; is now being prepared for service in the PPC. And I cannot stress this enough, it took me twelve years of work without any kind of help whatsoever, to get this character story-ready. Staying here, will help you get her ready a lot more faster!
and apologize for your immaturity is a huge step forward, all right? :)
Just don't turn that into an excuse, though, because we've had people in the past who've tried to get away with stuff and explain it away by blaming immaturity. Those people aren't around any more.
As long as you're willing to listen to advice and have fun, you'll be fine, okay?
In all seriousness, chill. Des is right: you don't need to worry about these things. Sure, you might've made a subpar character but we're not going to take away your writing materials because of it.
If you need proof, the thread where a bunch of people posted their own badfic is still on the front page. Don't worry about your mistakes. It's probably better that you make them here, since the whole point of the Board is to have writers get together and get better at writing. Of course, we're also here to rage about the truly horrendous stuff, but that's sort of tertiary to being a community.
Dude, relax. Everybody makes mistakes. Hell, I was in your position back when I started, and look where I ended up (that Hat is super-uncomfortable, :/). Nobody's stopping you from leaving - how are we supposed to do that, anyway? But don't be disheartened because you made a mistake - as I said, everybody makes them; the important part is to learn from them.
Please don't go?
-Puppy-dog eyes-