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[cleolinda]

I can't stop listening to the V for Vendetta soundtrack at this point, which makes this the second Dario Marianelli score in a row that I've gotten hooked on. I'm even to the point in my predictably cyclical obsessions where I would like to listen to something else, maybe some nice Garbage or at least something with guitars and maybe even some

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[piratesorka]

I made a mistake once as a teacher when I let my senior class students fill out a questionaire about my class. All were lovely except one that was very lukewarm and the other that out and out called me a bitch and such.

Do I remember the good ones? Oh nooooo, not a bit. It was the bad one that I stewed over the most.

This is why I laugh about the idea of giving anything but positive feedback to a fic writer. No body really wants a critic. Once, over one of my crackfic ( YES, it was CRACKFIC...thats what you get with talking private parts of two men!) Someone sent me a comment that I was totally unrealistic. *headdesks*
Some celebrities never read their reviews, its too awful if its negative. So I guess this whole feedback thing is a crapshoot overall.

[cleolinda]

You know, I'm a big supporter of constructive criticism in the rewrite phase, because you actually have a shot at being able to improve the work at that point. It's when the thing is finished and done and on the shelves that I'm starting to realize it's pointless, because there's nothing I can really do about it by then. And while I could, technically, go back and change things in an online piece, I tend to think of it as "on the shelf" for better or worse at that point.

[ter369]

It's when the thing is finished and done and on the shelves that I'm starting to realize it's pointless, because there's nothing I can really do about it by then.

... you can keep it mind when you're in the middle of the next project, making choices.

[cleolinda]

Well, yes, that's true. And part of what I was trying to get at by harping on the "you *do* need to listen to criticism" bit, because I don't want it to sound like I'm too delicate even for that. But I did feel like there was a point when I was dwelling too much on something I couldn't change, rather than looking forward to something I could.

[cleolinda]

Well, here's an example of a criticism that I found thoroughly unhelpful: one of the movie magazines (Empire?) said the book was "too studenty." Number one, I don't even know what that means: my mother thinks it means that the book is too intellectual, because she's my mother, and I think it means that it's too juvenile/internet-humor. Number two, I don't really know how to avoid or change that as, for better or worse, my parody voice and style skew, in fact, young (as in, the 18-35 demo) and internet-slangy and informal. So they're basically saying, "This is what she does, this is her flavor, and we don't like it." I don't really know what I can take away from that, given that I already cut down a *lot* on internet-specific language while writing the book and tried to go with more general humor. So there was a point when I said, a negative mini review in a print magazine? Probably not the kind of thing I need to obsessively seek out.

[cleolinda]

You see why "studenty" totally made me go "Huh?," then. : )