While RPG writing is admittedly a mixture of technical writing and (typically) low-end genre writing, so the issues are somewhat different, I very much want honesty. If someone loves my work, I want to hear about it, if they hate it or have serious negative criticisms, I also want to hear about this (although, preferably ones that don't come down to their being either a raving homophobe &/or right-wing wackball, as was true of most of the negative criticism of Blue Rose).
As for handling such criticism, I see arguing with critics as largely being silly and useless, and only do so to attempt to correct what seem to be significant misconceptions about a particular work, or occasionally in an effort to make raving homophobes &/or right-wing wackballs look even more foolish than they naturally do - however, this last behavior is no different from my typical on-line behavior, except that when I'm writing about my work I attempt to be considerably more polite.
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Date: 2006-09-25 08:46 pm (UTC)As for handling such criticism, I see arguing with critics as largely being silly and useless, and only do so to attempt to correct what seem to be significant misconceptions about a particular work, or occasionally in an effort to make raving homophobes &/or right-wing wackballs look even more foolish than they naturally do - however, this last behavior is no different from my typical on-line behavior, except that when I'm writing about my work I attempt to be considerably more polite.