Posted by D(i)L(bert) on September 17, 2004 at 22:29 [64.12.117.15]
In Reply to: Re: Vickie wing z and I have a truce do we? posted by diaperboy on September 17, 2004 at 09:17
I'm with Vicky...if you want a pat on the back for your story, post it here. If you post it in Vickie's space on storyboard54, it is assumed that you want people to criticize the story.
What you don't seem to understand is the point of criticizing stories on Vickie's boards. The idea is that writing well is a difficult and worthy goal requiring hard work. Part of that hard work is figuring out what's wrong with a given piece of writing, and that is most easily done with the help of other people. The criticism is directed at the story -- how to change the story to make other people WANT to read it, and WANT to read other things you may write. Saying that the story needs punctuation, and more development of the plot is not saying anything bad about you -- it is only saying something about the story itself.
Frankly, good grammar, correct spelling, and paragraphs for organization really do improve a story. Then, when you break the rules, it has real effect on your reader.
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