Monthly Archives: October 2007

The Bit With Constructive Criticism…

Blog­ging has been dif­fi­cult of late. It seems I only have a lim­ited reser­voir of writ­ing energy and my new course has now imposed a hose pipe ban on my blog.

I’m in the pro­cess of fin­ish­ing my first assign­ment and already I’m get­ting nervous. I’m try­ing my best to be brave when con­cern­ing let­ting other read my work, but to be hon­est, it only ever seems to back-fire.

K’s idea of con­struct­ive cri­ti­cism goes to the tune of:

Claire: (hope­ful) So, what did you think?
K: I don’t like it
Claire: Okaaay (a little deflated), why?
K: I don’t know
Claire: Well, what in par­tic­u­lar don’t you like about it?
K: I don’t know, I just don’t like it
[Repeat the above 2 lines x3]
Claire: (frus­trated) Yes, but unless you tell me what don’t you like about it, I can’t fix it!“
K: *shrugs*
Claire: Aarrgghh!!

There­fore, I can safely deduce that my writ­ing is totally cack, but I’m still at a loss as to why…