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Apr. 28th, 2009 02:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shapinglightOkay, said I was going to spam, and since this subject is horribly embarrassing for me, I might as well get it off my chest rightaway.
Ahem! I am a feedback whore.
Not that it's True Confessions Week on LJ, or anything, but since I was brought up to think that trying to attract attention to yourself was un-British or unfeminine, or un-something, admitting this is a lot harder than the subject (which is very trivial, I know) actually warrants.
I thought at first I would try and pretend to be all scientific and impersonal and put up some kind of poll so you could all join me in admitting you were also feedback whores, or else take the moral high ground and say getting feedback was a matter of indifference to you. However, implicating you all in my horrible character flaw didn't seem very fair, so I didn't do it.
Anyway, I am one. I wish I wasn't. I wish I was like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
peasant_ who not only doesn't like getting feedback, but actively discourages it by making it as hard as possible for people to give her any and glaring at them a lot when they do, but I'm not. Getting told people have enjoyed something I've written is one of the best feelings in the world for me. Likewise, not getting any feedback, or not much feedback, for something I've written makes me grumpy, and I have to own up to it.
:sigh: Oh well. Never claimed to be perfect. Should I have done the poll after all, or have I embarrassed myself enough already? Or, indeed, are you asking yourself, what on earth is wrong with wanting/liking to receive feedback? It's a British/women's/old person's problem. Get over it.
Ahem! I am a feedback whore.
Not that it's True Confessions Week on LJ, or anything, but since I was brought up to think that trying to attract attention to yourself was un-British or unfeminine, or un-something, admitting this is a lot harder than the subject (which is very trivial, I know) actually warrants.
I thought at first I would try and pretend to be all scientific and impersonal and put up some kind of poll so you could all join me in admitting you were also feedback whores, or else take the moral high ground and say getting feedback was a matter of indifference to you. However, implicating you all in my horrible character flaw didn't seem very fair, so I didn't do it.
Anyway, I am one. I wish I wasn't. I wish I was like
peasant_ who not only doesn't like getting feedback, but actively discourages it by making it as hard as possible for people to give her any and glaring at them a lot when they do, but I'm not. Getting told people have enjoyed something I've written is one of the best feelings in the world for me. Likewise, not getting any feedback, or not much feedback, for something I've written makes me grumpy, and I have to own up to it. :sigh: Oh well. Never claimed to be perfect. Should I have done the poll after all, or have I embarrassed myself enough already? Or, indeed, are you asking yourself, what on earth is wrong with wanting/liking to receive feedback? It's a British/women's/old person's problem. Get over it.
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Date: 2009-04-28 11:02 pm (UTC)I don't beg for feedback or hold stories hostage for feedback or castigate my readers for not giving me enough feedback (mainly because if I don't get feedback, I assume it's because A) the story sucks, or B) I didn't promote it properly) but you can bet that every time I post fic, I sit there gnawing on my fingernails, waiting for the first comment, anxiously comparing the comment count of Story A to that of Story B and feeling elated or deflated if it's gone up or down.
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Date: 2009-04-29 08:23 pm (UTC)Well, I'm assuming there's always an exception that proves the rule.
And I'm the same as you. Can't bring myself to ask for feedback, wouldn't dream of doing the blackmail thing, but desperately want it all the same.