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[pottersues]

Sorry for the delay. Here is day four of “All In the Summary” week. The name is actually in the title and not the summary, but that combined with the actual summaries contents made me decide to include it with this week.

TITLE: Eva Winters
PERPETRATOR: shadowkat678
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Re: Re: So, it's been about six years and this looks dead, but...

[anonymous]

Unless something had been changed between now and the time this had been posted, I don't see anything I would consider mocking or too much for a teenager. Perhaps the stars just aligned in the worse ways possible, but I don't think it's fair to blame your unfortunately long-lasting insecurities on the way Pottersues does reviews.

I feel like writing is a bit more difficult than most imagine. I feel like too many people romanticize writing to be something that just about anyone can do if they simply have the passion. And many people seem to think that writing is a matter of whether you "got it" or you don't.
I used to write soft-worded, but thorough reviews. And even though many people PM'd to thank me and agreed with the points I made, many of those same people simply stopped writing altogether. Some even deleted their stories days or weeks after. I think no matter how one words a review, it's simply daunting to see someone write a whole page discussing your story's faults. I feel like the only way to spare someone this feeling is to outright lie to them. But at that point, it stops being a review.

I think that it also has a lot to do with how people hand out superficial words of praises and encouragement too readily. They get blindsided by critique.