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oh, and i wrote this last night - this is how the world ends - bb/dm/ew. miscommunication challenge. i tried, per usual, to do a bit of the show don't tell, unlike some of the other submissions this time.

/catty

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i tried, per usual, to do a bit of the show don't tell, unlike some of the other submissions this time.

/catty

Bwah. Although I didn't mind some of them.

i'm just used to better writing in that community. and some are good, but then there were a few that just pained me and i couldn't keep quiet about it any longer.

s'why i got to the end of writing this post and realized "damn, i'm gonna have to friends lock it" because i try not to be catty in public :)

Welcomes your cattiness in public or private, unless it's about me.

*worries that her writing is sucky and that people are dissing it in private*

is not sucky!

i worry about that all the time for me, though, so you can be amused at that :)

You're not sucky either! You got recc'ed on lotrips_recs - what are you worried about?

dood. i'm still not over that. the feedback on that drabble has just been insane.

but i definitely worry about every piece of writing that i put out there. and it's so silly, but every time i get a comment from a mod i think that i must have done something wrong. of course, i open the email and it's all good and swoon-y feedback and all that, but that doesn't stop me worrying the next time.

I'm so lousy at feedback - I don't know enough about writing to say what I like or don't like.

But I know what I like.

I'm so lousy at feedback - I don't know enough about writing to say what I like or don't like.

Clearly, I'm also not good enough at English to write a sentence that expresses how I feel. What I MEANT to say was that I don't know enough about writing to write intelligent feedback like it's 'tight' or 'well-crafted' or anything else literary like that.

I just know if I like it, if it touches me on an emotional level, etc.

THAT'S what I meant. I think.

but that's good to hear anyway, you know? if something touches someone emotionally then i know that the words were well chosen and it was well structured to provoke that reaction.

Lots of spam is from viruses or worms which capture address books, so your friend should do a virus check.

You are good at show-don't-tell, and some people just are not (notice I haven't posted anything this time...). It's a problem with challenges, maybe because there's no beta process, so people post things that don't really work.

it wasn't from her address - just her name.

the level of writing on this community is higher than the other drabble community i'm a part of, which is the only reason it bothered me. if they had shown up in sunday100 i would have just skipped over them.

and i feel extremely catty, because i know that mine even told more than it should have. but, there you have it.

(and, thank you :) )

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