Imagine angrier and tada!
The coworker you mentioned reminded me of this:
I still don't really agree with a lot of the criticism they made, because I feel like people often just can't tell what is actually just bad and what just isn't for them. Nevertheless, there was a lot of valuable feedback in there, so it's important to be able to evaluate it critically on your own so that you know what you can do to make your work more accessible, while evaluating what needs to stay there to maintain your identity
So I finished Ender's Game, the audio book right. Well Orson Scott card actually had a piece at the end. Kind of reflecting on the book and how it got published/made and how he was fighting with people for so long about keep things the same for it to be turned into a movie. AND THEN he had another bit after the "thanks for listening to audible" thing where he talked about how people reached out to him about his book that he never expected to be fans of it. How it resonated with people he didn't even think about. He went on to explain why he thinks people resonated with it. That it's a story about a character that has the whole world going against him, manipulating him, and that that reflects to a lot of people about their own life. That they aren't always in control of the world and some people will want you to do certain things. But his point was that while the world may try to give you the things that it wants you to do, people will do this, you as a person are the one in the end doing everything. You can't change the world or the people but you can change you. And I was like, "Damn I need to be writing." hahah I can't change the world but I can do what I want to do and that's write!
So I bought Scrivener lol. I was using google drive stuff for organizing. I decided to pull out this past year's nano novel that I didn't get very far in. I was breaking it up as scrivener does. And I pulled up my first chapter. OKAY LET ME REWIND. I was e-stalking your scrib profile to see if you had WK's account. I was at work so I was just skimming things but I saw you submitted something else! So I just skimmed the critiques to see how they went for you and saw someone say you had too much telling instead of showing. Fast forward to when I re-read my first line and I thought "damn, I have that problem too." Since that short, skimmed critique of your work I hadn't even read yet haha So I re wrote the first two paragraphs. Well they were 189 words. Annnd it changed to 558 words. Maybe scriv will help me actually write. ACTUALLY
OH. I WAS TRYING TO HOOK YOU UP! I don't have it. I just keep using the free trial and then never touch it again until another free trial haha
I already have it
Hey scrivener is half off.
Yeah I feel yah. OH WELL, AT LEAST IT'S MOSTLY CIVIL HERE.
