No pressure to, but now I’m even more curious
I’m a little kepo as we say in Indonesian—curious to the point of nosiness ![]()
Dang, doesn’t that sound familiar ![]()
Yeah, it’s always those with the least experience who have the most ego. I remember in this one Wattpad-centric server there was this young girl promoting her story, saying that she and her sister wrote it and that it was “pretty good.” I checked it out wanting to see how bad it was. The writing was worse than I expected
I didn’t want to be mean though, so I DMed the girl to tell her I’ve checked out her first chapter and asked if she was open to feedback. When she said yes, I gave her some pointers, and she improved! It still wasn’t “very good” but it was a visibly somewhat better.
I guess it can also apply to people who have a lot of experience in one “sub-form” of an art, because it doesn’t always translate well. Don’t tell me you can write a good novel just because you’ve written a bunch of scripts or short stories, or that you know what the novel-writing process is like because it’s all writing at the end
they’re completely different art forms and should be treated as such. I learned the hard way with my first novella ![]()