a regular comment would be something appreciative that pm only tells you that they read the fic and that they liked it, pm a spazzing comment as you talk abt with anon below. a crit comment would not only tell that they liked your fic (if they did), they would also tell WHAT they liked and WHY they liked it. + a few things that wasn't great/that you could improve, and maybe a few questions abt things or why you chose to do things a certain way.
to me, posting a work on the internet is not in anyway a green light to tell the creator all your thoughts abt it. on a few occasions i have given constructive crit (with things i didn't like) without the author expressively asking for it, and in those cases i have been pretty sugar-coated abt it and tried very hard to be nice and constructive and do the crit sandwish lol, with two good points for every bad. still i have not felt very comfortable abt it in those situations, even if the author has responded well.
i know a lot of writers aren't interested in improving and write only for fun and then it can be rly unpleasant to have ppl pointing out stuff they didn't like abt something you did only for fun. maybe writing is your happyplace where you can escape from rl stress and issues, and then someone comes and ruins that for you? i don't know the authors story, and thus i am very careful with unprompted crit. even tho i sometimes hook up with a beta and sometimes ask for crit, some days i'm just not fit for hearing those things and then i do not want it. i hate it when ppl think of you as an amateur writer or some kind of wuss for this. crit is hard to take and i think the author should be able to choose when they're ready to take it. even though i am very serious about writing i do not always want to improve, i struggle with it to the point where i sometimes am just happy to be able to put a word on a paper and be content with it. that's the level where i'm at. and that's not a level where you can take crit.
leaving spazzy comments telling the author i liked their fic is always accepted i think, that's sort of the point abt posting fic right? i think most people think of it that way anyway. do you usually not spend a lot of time on lj?
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to me, posting a work on the internet is not in anyway a green light to tell the creator all your thoughts abt it. on a few occasions i have given constructive crit (with things i didn't like) without the author expressively asking for it, and in those cases i have been pretty sugar-coated abt it and tried very hard to be nice and constructive and do the crit sandwish lol, with two good points for every bad. still i have not felt very comfortable abt it in those situations, even if the author has responded well.
i know a lot of writers aren't interested in improving and write only for fun and then it can be rly unpleasant to have ppl pointing out stuff they didn't like abt something you did only for fun. maybe writing is your happyplace where you can escape from rl stress and issues, and then someone comes and ruins that for you? i don't know the authors story, and thus i am very careful with unprompted crit. even tho i sometimes hook up with a beta and sometimes ask for crit, some days i'm just not fit for hearing those things and then i do not want it. i hate it when ppl think of you as an amateur writer or some kind of wuss for this. crit is hard to take and i think the author should be able to choose when they're ready to take it. even though i am very serious about writing i do not always want to improve, i struggle with it to the point where i sometimes am just happy to be able to put a word on a paper and be content with it. that's the level where i'm at. and that's not a level where you can take crit.
leaving spazzy comments telling the author i liked their fic is always accepted i think, that's sort of the point abt posting fic right? i think most people think of it that way anyway. do you usually not spend a lot of time on lj?