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I can empathize with your comment insofar that simply interacting with others for me has been difficult at times because of the whole 'how does that thing you s

by mercer 6y ago

I can empathize with your comment insofar that simply interacting with others for me has been difficult at times because of the whole 'how does that thing you say relate to that thing I saw online'. There are times where it feels like every observation I make is related to a reddit comment. The comparison is not inaccurate, but it destroys or at least harms the implicit contract of me having a conversation with someone else. I can definitely imagine this problem is even bigger for a creative writer, when both parties have more time to compare things to other things. I hesitate to say this is /bad/. Perhaps I'm just getting old. But it's definitely /different/ and quite often unpleasant to me.

thewhitetulip 6y ago
It is not bad, it is annoying. People these days don't read a new thing and try to express the issue in it, they HAVE to relate it to something they saw or read. I had written a scifi short story and people told me "Oh yeah it was predictable, very much like the movie X" Sure harry potter too was predictable, Harry was going to win and Voldemort was going to die, but the same peop don't say that to HP! There is a social contract, an implicit one to praise famous books. A person I knew got mad at me for pointing out obvious flaws in HP like why don't they use time turners more before they're broken during Order of Phoenix or a somewhat gray area Elder wand is the most powerful, Dumbledore had all 3 deathly hallows at a point in time and despite being a master of death, he didn't kill voldemort. The last one is a bit vague yes, but instead of discussing with me and saying "maybe Voldemort hid from Dumbledore for that reason" this person went like "you are posting this to get attention" There was another idiot who kept on bugging me that I don't write good English, I think in my mother tongue and translate it to English And this moron didn't even know common idiom I had used was also a common idiom word-to-word in English as well He kept on insisting me to think in English. I studied in a convent school so I know how to not think-translate mother tongue into English As a novelist who was trying to write for the first time, the man was toxic, as were almost all morons I met on the site. They didn't encourage, didn't have any single constructive criticism, "oh you don't know x y"

by mercer 6y ago

thewhitetulip 6y ago

It is not bad, it is annoying. People these days don't read a new thing and try to express the issue in it, they HAVE to relate it to something they saw or read. I had written a scifi short story and people told me "Oh yeah it was predictable, very much like the movie X" Sure harry potter too was predictable, Harry was going to win and Voldemort was going to die, but the same peop don't say that to HP! There is a social contract, an implicit one to praise famous books. A person I knew got mad at me for pointing out obvious flaws in HP like why don't they use time turners more before they're broken during Order of Phoenix or a somewhat gray area Elder wand is the most powerful, Dumbledore had all 3 deathly hallows at a point in time and despite being a master of death, he didn't kill voldemort. The last one is a bit vague yes, but instead of discussing with me and saying "maybe Voldemort hid from Dumbledore for that reason" this person went like "you are posting this to get attention" There was another idiot who kept on bugging me that I don't write good English, I think in my mother tongue and translate it to English And this moron didn't even know common idiom I had used was also a common idiom word-to-word in English as well He kept on insisting me to think in English. I studied in a convent school so I know how to not think-translate mother tongue into English As a novelist who was trying to write for the first time, the man was toxic, as were almost all morons I met on the site. They didn't encourage, didn't have any single constructive criticism, "oh you don't know x y"