You hate 'em when you have 'em, and then you are one. It's one of the great mysteries of life!!! Teachers; The (wo)men, the myths, the legends.

Paige; I'm 21, younger than many, older than some. It's a pain of an age when you're not a kid but you're not "really" an adult lol. And my mum knws better than to try turn my course lol. Bullheadidness runs in the family. Both sides.

There is some excellant advice coming out here

I just hope my official proof readers come back to me with more constructive reviews, of the kind that you all have detailed!

EDIT: Anyway, have any of you fine people ever had a review, personal or proffesional, that's just made you go "Ouch..."?

Hello, everyone!

Okay, what this thread is for, is to ask how everyone handles bad reviews, from informal readers all the way up the scale to... "official" reviewrs. I ask because recently, I got my first bad review, off my mother of all people, and it shook my worse than any criticism I ever got from anyone else. There was no constructiveness about it, it was just flat out, "I don't think it's very good."

So, everyone, if you let people read you're stuff, how do you handle bad reviews? I know you're supposed to be tough skinned, but people have to feel somthing! It's human nature. So, do you shrug it aside? Do you take it in? Do you change?

"Can't please 'em all" is a popular saying, but it dosn't stop us from trying. Anyway, original question, how do YOU handle bad reviews?

I made it too! Although the story isn't over yet... yay... now I get to edit, re-write and accept criticism!

I like to think I'm a writer but I'm probbaly being pretentious lol

Anyway!

It is my very firm belief that in the center of by brain, and ever so slightly to the left, there is a gateway which leads to every point in in time and space, in every reality there ever was. Now, somtimes, well, quite often, people and/or events come screaming out of this gateway only to find themselves trapped in my imagination. Now, for most of my life, my imagination has been a fun place to be, at least if your a goodie. They could lounge about untill somthing came up, pick up a sword and run around beating Evil into submission, making little witty comments and double entendresm, supported by a colourful array of characters that range from amazonian warrior woment to self-delusional geeks with a highly inflated opinion of their own martial and mental prowess.
Now, however, the hero's get beat up quite a bit.  There's no edge when you characters are invincible. Poor little guys...
What all that means is that yes, my characters just happen in my head. As far as I can remember, I have never created a character step by step that wasn't for some sort of RPG lol.

I don't know if this happens to anyone else, but, if for whatever reason I try to take my characters in a direction that they would not normally go down, I get partial writer's block untill I let them get back on a path that their personalities like. Anyone else get that?

Hello, my name isn't Jack, nor anywhere close to being Jack, but that's what most people call me now... and you should never tell anyone your real name, right?

I've been doing "fantasy" in my head for as long as I can remember, but only started butting finger-to-keyboard when I was maybe 12. My first effort, was, I admit, such utter garbage that the first time I read it thorugh I also deleted it. My second attempt, which actually had a title (*Pauses for gasp*) Was called Runeweaver, and the concept wasn't bad. But, unfortunatley, the Reading It Back To Myself fairy deleted it into submission.  I wrote a couple of starting chapters after that, well, I say  couple, but I mean probably quite alot, with titles such as Chronomancer, a book about an introvert who ws born 3000 years after he died.
In the last 9 months or so, I've gotten more serious (9/10 years after writing that dreadful thing I called a story when I was 12...) and currently have 4 major projects in the works, including NaNoWriMo, which I intend to flesh out just a tad when I'm done. I tend to think in fantasy, as I mentioned earlier, but what I seam to write most is a kind of parallel reality urban sci-fantasy. I don't quite know why.
My titles this year are:
and for NaNoWriMo,

I seem to have a problem making my characters into Supermen, far to tough to make a decent story, but I'm working on that by letting them get beat up in my head before I write.

Although my writing has deffinatley come on since I was 12 (I sould hope so too!), and I'm actually at the point where I can read my own work, and not immediatley delete it, I still tend to just set off writing with little or no idea where I'm going, letting my fingers do the thinking, which is why somtimes I really have to think, "Why did he just DO that??" when looking at my characters.

And again, although I've improved, I still believe my best description of a story ever came early on, in a story called "To What The Hell, And Back." when I was maybe 14. This was that description.

I just love it

Anyway, thats me, I'd really like to be an auther, but I get distracted easily (Less so these days, gladly!) and I still consider mys work a little... well, "crap", to be published quite yet, but if you ever spot an auther on the shelves called Nathan Paige, I hope that'll be me 

Jack out.

This is my first time doing NaNoWriMo!!! With both my weekends taken up so far, and thursdays being a day I can't right on due to circumstance, I'm not 25, 552 words on day 14! In order to compensate for my lack of weekends and and thursdays, I'm doing 3500 words a day. I have 1500 left to do today, and I'm procrastinating... Why is the internet so shiny?