User blog comment:Kefke Wren/Excuses, Excuses/@comment-7706473-20130615204350/@comment-4332975-20130615210527

Huzzah! May your teapot ever be full.

This is my thinking exactly. There is a difference between going in with the knowledge that you need help, and seeking it, and wearing your inexperience as a shield. Knowing that you have a problem does not make criticism less valid, and people should not go in with the expectation that others will forgive them for it. These are the people who need criticism the most, as it tells them where to improve. By rejecting the criticism, they are essentially saying that they don't want to learn how to do better.

That's what I really object to. People seem sometimes to think that just writing enough words will somehow turn them into Shakespeare. Unfortunately, that is not how the world works. They have to learn to write better, and the first step to improving is knowing your problems. I'm just a little tired of people expecting me to play along with their fantasy that they can just write until it gets good on their own, because they aren't willing to take criticism.