For this post I'm going to skip recapping what happened this week. What I really want to talk about is a certain critical response I received for the rough draft of my short story today. While I'm not one to whine or pout when someone doesn't like something I have written, and I am very open to advice for my work, the person who wrote this response was down right rude. And it was completely unnecessary. I was talked down to, insulted, and treated like I was ignorant and did not know how to write. I did not sign up for this class to be belittled. Quite frankly, I have never been so insulted by someone's "response" to a piece of my work ever. And I've dealt with tough critics and blatantly honest people going on four years. I will be showing up sometime next week at my professor's office to discuss this further. I understand that he want us to be honest when we are critiquing and workshopping and I am totally fine with that, I prefer honesty; but this was taken way too far. I am extremely disappointed with this person. I know that in the grand scheme that this is just one person out of twenty-some odd other classmates; but this needs to be brought to the professor's attention. I am not going to let this kind of "critiquing" continue; this is not the kind of "honesty" that the professor was talking about. This was just rude and mean.
On a more positive note, I enjoyed the time I had for my workshopping. The majority of classmates gave me some great ideas and good advice. They brought up aspects that I would have never thought about because I only have an author's perspective and their reader perspective has really come in handy.
All for now,
Liz
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