# It's a writing workshop, not a mutual admiration society! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 9, 2001, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-writing-workshop-not-a-mutual-admiration-society/86337 "2001-10-09T15:27:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![meenie7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@meenie7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meenie7)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2001, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-writing-workshop-not-a-mutual-admiration-society/86337/21 "2001-10-10T16:59:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Miller \* > \*\*Purely in keeping with the theme of this thread, I feel compelled to point out that: > > > [@](#): > > > > there is this girl in my workshop who cannot tolerate the slightest critique of her (juvenile and poorly plotted, imho) stories, but was a raging bitch about my story, implying that the main boy couldn’t possibly like the main girl cause she’s “sooo obnoxious” (well, genius, she’s 10 years old, and a lot of 10 year olds are a little overexuberant, and anyway, you are not the arbiter of whether someone is a worthwhile human) and pouting about my use of nicknames and excited language (again, she’s 10. years. old. She’s not going to be calm and sedate.) > > is one wicked run-on sentence. Three paranthetical asides! That may be a record! > > 😉 \*\* hee hee. yes, the wily run on sentence is one of my major problems. This chick commented on those too, and I accepted that part because it was true and valid. It just raised my flags when no one else in the class of 24 people said the character was annoying or commented on the excited language…when only one person even mentions something, it leads me to believe that that person, to put it nicely, has a flawed understanding of the story. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-writing-workshop-not-a-mutual-admiration-society/86337.md?page=1)