What Do People Think About Your Writing?

My friends know I write and think it's great because it's a way of keeping me calm and expressing myself through writing. My dad is all for me writing. He said he would help me get my story published whenever I finnish it but my brother and mom think it is silly and have told me not to waste my time. I suppose I've got some fairly supportive people . ^.^

All of my friends know I write and constantly ask if they can read something I've written. Most of the time I say no; only the ones closer to me can read them. Some people in my family know that I write various things and they all seem to like it. They compliment me on it but I just nod and not take them seriously. I like getting comments on my work so much because I like to know what complete strangers think of my writing. Does that make sense?

Most of my friends are also writers. They're all far better than I am when it comes to poetry, but they flatter me by complimenting my talents when it comes to fiction writing and I do, as I'm admitting now with only minimal guilt, have an edge on them in that regard, I think. They recognize that I'm usually the one to go to when they need advice about fiction, and I fully recognize that they're my go-to people when it comes to poetry advice, though I rarely write poetry.

My mom is convinced I'm going to up and leave someday, and go live in New York where I'll write this century's greatest novel. :XD She has a lot of faith in my writing, though I tend to go through periods of hating the way I write and thinking that I'm fairly worthless with it, but I hope that someday I can at least support myself with it. I have a long way to go before that can happen, though.

SammySuicide:

I like getting comments on my work so much because I like to know what complete strangers think of my writing. Does that make sense?

It makes complete sense. That's exactly the way I feel about comments, especially here on Mibba. Even better - my readers know full well, by now, how much I love constructive criticism and so none of them are afraid to tell me exactly what they did and did not like about a chapter or story. I once had a reader admit to me, "No...I just didn't like it," and explain why. I could have married her. I can only better myself if others tell me how.

There are only about...four people who know that I write, and I'm pretty sure two of them have forgotten. My mum knows and she gets really excited when I talk about it, but I've never actually shown her any of my writing as of yet. I send my best friend my one shots and some of my stories, but ...she's not a huge reader. She likes what I write, though I've stopped sending her stuff recently.

I don't really like showing people I actually know from school my writing. I'm much more comfortable letting strangers see it and give me feedback.

My dad knows I write 'gay porn' :lmfao
My close friends know I write and I like letting them read it, because I'm a show off.
But it annoys me that one of my friends thinks she can write better than me :XD
And is like "this isn't your best." to everything I write.
I'm like "you really cannot see the emotion behind this, can you?" T_T

I really want to print off all my stories and put them in a folder to show off at school.
:shifty

Nobody I know knows that I write on here, so the whole fan fiction world is very unknown to them, and thats fine. But everyone knows I write anyway, it's only become clearer to all my friends since we started applying to universities and I went for creative writing.

Anything I've wrote that my mum's read, she says is good, but I always think she just says that because she feels she has to. Some of my friends say I can write really well, but they've only heard one short story I had to write in English, and they wouldn't have heard that, had my teacher not chose to read it aloud.

I think I trust strangers more than friends/family, I just think they feel they have to give a positive response to everything, strangers don't.

I only let a few select people from my family and friends read what I write. I don't really like to share what I write, 'cause I like to be secretive :shifty

I don't know what my friends think because they're biased, but they always like to read whatever I throw at them. My sister says it's pretty good but boring... she doesn't have a big attention span though. So I forgive her.

My little sister knows I have written a story but not what it's about. No one else knows, mostly because no one else knows about Mibba and because I am really self-conscious when it comes to people judging things I've written.
I didn't even let anyone read my assignments when I was in school :shifty
I'm too worried about that they'd think...

My friends know I write... I don't really let them read my stuff too often, because they aren't very constructive.
They just make inane comments like "That's nice" or "Is that character based on me?"

I don't let my parents read my stuff, because I'm afraid they'll be too critical. :cheese:
I mean, I can take criticism and everything...
I'm just worried, 'cause they think I'm a really good writer.
And I'm not, really.

:cheese: I tell my mum about contests.
Tonight I was at dinner with her and my family, and she bloody told them all that I got third in something.
¬_¬.

Every one knows I write, but the only people that have read my stuff are my best friends, because they have mibba's, too. That's as close as anyone's gonna get. :tehe:

The friends who have read my stuff like it a lot, and tell me its really good, but I honestly think they're just being nice.

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^ I think that. because most my friends aren't writers, so I can't trust their opinon

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I'm more of a secretive writer, only my close friends know I do it (and mibba obviously)
The ones who do read it think it's all good, personally I dislike most of my writing after a few months, and every now and again go through a stage where I think everything I've written is complete and utter shit :XD That hasn't happened in a while luckily.

Anyways random people reading my stuff (disregarding anything from beyond 4 months ago) I would like them to think it's interesting, different, and indulging. Man I must be sounding really vain now.

I never let my friends or family read my stories, but when we have to do something for creative writing, they just say it's good. :| And then I get excellence.

All of my friends know I write. I've been working on this story for a year and a half and they all know it very well.

My parents don't know my writing as well as my friends do. The last things I read to them was months ago, for my creative writing class.

It's not that I don't want to read to them. I just think they'd hear it and go, "Oh my God, Bee, you're fifteen! What on earth are you writing things like this fro!"

I tend to use a lot of profanity in my writing.

Nonetheless, my mother thinks my future is in writing. She wants me to be the next JK Rowling. :tehe:

They like what I write for them. But sometimes it's annoying because they intend to show everyone my work, and expect me to write for them constantly. :roll:

But, the stuff on here...yeah, right. Like I'd ever let them even see this website. :lmfao

My parents think that it's really inspiring that I write to get away from the reality. They say that more people should cope with reality like that, rather than going out and partying.

My brother is one of my fans. He reads, makes remarks, edits, and gives critics to my writings.

My boyfriend is not a really big fan of reading, but when it comes to my suff he reads them and tells me what he thinks about it; tho his critics are more like: I liked it how you described this...

My friends all know that I write, but unfortunatelly just a few of them read it, because of the great majority of my friends only speak and read Spanish.
The ones who read my stuff often smile at me and tell me that I'm stupid for not going out and publish my stuff.

Other than that... just one guy has been really mean to what I write; he used to be a crush of mine, and he said, and I quote: "I don't even know why are you wasting your time; you critized the woman who wrote Twilight, but let me tell you that she got published because of something, don't you think? And you won't get published because you write stuff that nobody except for the people you know is interested in" I stopped writing for a while because of that, but then I said screw him!

My mother knows I write "phenomonally" and "like a real author!" (as she would say). I don't readily let her read ANYTHING but she likes to sneak glances at my printouts and stuff...and she's known since I was a kid that I write. She loves it. I don't mind, but I don't want her her reading the slash and incest I write. And the depression and suicide. Not exactly family friendly. :tehe:

Uh, my friends...they basically exist on here. And the people who read my stuff...well, they love it. I'm not trying to sound vain or cocky. They do. *shrugs*

And my class...that's a whole 'nother story. My English teacher has actually told me in person, like taken me aside and told me, that I am "the most talented talented writer she's had in her six years of teaching". And that meant a lot to me. A real lot. She likes to print out my writing for assignments that we go over in class sometimes (like, workshop them as a class) and mine end up going around quite often. My class is floored, a lot of the time. I've never gotten anything but praise from them and it really makes my heart soar, as lame as that sounds. One time I handed in Silver as an assignement and three or four people took it out of my hands before I handed it in and demanded to read it first. It really makes me happy.

Everyone knows I write, but not what I write or why.

Whenever I write something for school, it's always watered down. Even if there's a fair bit of violence or drug use, it's never what I'd normally write. The language isn't in there, a lot of the emotion isn't in there. The least watered-down fic I've written for school was a Vam that ended in suicide... which went down less-than-well with the class to say the least. It wasn't because it was badly written, it was the content. Because it was a suicide fic involving the slightest allusion to gay romance, it became the most awful thing ever written.

My parents know I can write, but they never read anything. I won't let them. Whenevr I'm writing, whether it be on Mibba or on word, I'll always have Photoshop and a cat macro site up so I have a cover. If I'm rambling off possible ideas to my dad, he'll say I should change the names and make it original fiction, and that always ends up in an argument. I don't want to get published, ever... and that's always the spark that sets it off.

My friends know what I write, but not the full extent of why. Kat and Jess read my stuff on here all the time [or they used to anyway] and sometimes my other friends will want to have a look at my writing book. One kid found out that I read slash, as I've got a bunch of it in my binder, and then tried to use it against me before one of my mates went off at him. :coffee:

I think most of our moms know we write; mine does too. I write a lot for school so my mom is my editor, but I haven't shown her anything from my online writing history. I've planned to have it finished and printed before I show it to anyone I love for a long time. I'd rather my more personal stories be saved for when I believe they have reached perfection. Though I'd always show my drafts to my mom afterward. My dad doesn't read books, so that's a bust.