Today, I uploaded the first chapter of my best writing yet to a popular writing website. After ten minutes, I was thrilled to already see one review and five comments. Each comment was telling me to immediately delete the story because of how horrible it was. The rating was half a star. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, after spending weeks working on a song that meant a lot to me, I reluctantly posted it online. The "friend" who'd convinced me to post it, commented, "This is the worst shit I've ever heard." He got 30 likes, along with a barrage of agreeing, equally terrible comments. FML
Today, I had my teacher look over my essay before turning it in. He said it was extremely well-written, so I handed it in. When I got it back, the feedback he left said it was one of the worst essays he'd ever read. FML
Today, I uploaded my latest picture onto a photography website. It only got one comment, and even that was from someone advising me to never use the same hideous model ever again. It was a self-portrait. FML
Today, my teenage son gave me the completed manuscript of the novel he's been working on for 4 years. Surprised and excited that he showed so much dedication to something, I volunteered to read it. I'm only on page 16 and it's absolute drivel, with grammar that makes my eyes bleed. Only 281 pages to go. FML
Today, I realized that not only am I still an unpublished author, but I can't even get an FML posted after submitting several in the last year. FML
Today, I tried really hard for once on an assignment. I was told it was my worst work yet and that I may as well have turned nothing in at all. FML
Today, I accidentally posted an extensive, negative review of the gynecologist I visited earlier this week. I messed up and posted it from my work's customer service email, so now it looks like the large, well-known company I work for had a poor gynecological experience. FML
Today, my teacher read my story about a haunted house for a class assignment. She liked it very much and turned it in to the office to be sent into a state writing competition. An hour later, I was called to the office where the guidance counselor called my work "disturbing" and said I "need help". FML
Today, after turning in a paper that I worked really hard on, I got it back with a grade of 0. In the feedback section, my professor wrote: “In all my 37 years of teaching, this is by far the worst essay I have ever read.” FML
Today, I tried to write a bad review for the fast-food place at which I work part-time. My username made me anonymous, but I forgot to change my profile picture. Now my manager and coworkers won't even speak to me. FML
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Top comments
hunny797 5
Delete this FML
Pleonasm 36
Did you do a fanfic of 50 Shades of Grey? Who am I kidding that would become a bestseller.
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Comments (154)
hunny797 5
Delete this FML
wowlolreally 12
Listen to the man.
bestnameright 14
Delete that comment.
Bubbelz 25
This cement has been deleted.
1PersonIsMyWorld 22
God why is everyone being rude? OP needs more inspiration. Ya know OP, I love drawing but I truly suck at it. As long as its fun, enjoyable, and interesting to you nothing else matters.
alfred07 18
Why?
SuperKnuckels 6
Still a better love story than Twilight.
Agore1 2
#104 what?
SirWTF 10
See what they have to say, and try to learn from your mistakes. Not exactly a FYL :P
Evgeny2222 11
Your dream is ruined, and your life will now be miserable and boring.
VenomSiphon 13
Harry Potter was rejected from dozens of publishers before someone decided to give it a shot. And now the franchise has made more money than the GDP of Bolivia (seriously)
gracehi 33
53, That's not true. Rowling was so poor she could only afford to print out two copies of the first Harry Potter book. Miraculously, one of the two submissions got accepted. That's is otherwise unheard of, though. It normally does take dozens of submissions before a book is published.
chimocho 8
Nope, 53 is correct.
Pleonasm 36
Did you do a fanfic of 50 Shades of Grey? Who am I kidding that would become a bestseller.
akiahara 14
Fanfiction of fanfiction... good gods.
Pleonasm 36
Fic-ception
Pleonasm 36
"We have to go deeper," would get even more meaning than before.
gc327072 31
I can see it now. "He then looked into her eyes, and went two layers deeper."
anythingmustbe 18
A better idea would be a fanfic of the twilight series.
ManInTheMachine 20
50 Shades of Grey IS a fanfic of the Twilight series.
WhisperSoflty 20
Well shit, 38 beat be. Disregard.
ColdplaySucks 18
You guys are all wrong. "Firewood" is the correct term.
Pretty_reckless_fml 18
If you can call the steamy pile of dog turd that is Twilight a "book" :L
LarryLaDouche 13
Were gonna test and see if books REALLY do start to burn at 451 degrees Fahrenheit
itssnotfunny 24
And it did! When they came out with 50 shades of black.
Evgeny2222 11
There has just been a hilarious comment on this FML, where'd it go?
hawright 13
To write or not to write...
Cryptic17_fml 4
That is the question
mkcontrollers 11
It was a question then you finished the quote. Here's your cookie!
j_cat187 20
URL? I want to read and mock a terrible story.
WeAreAHurricane 14
Eh wattpad has a lot of those, but a lot of good ones too.
BntyHntrSeattle 30
Everyone is an evolving writer. Just keep at it, take their feedback as it comes, and use it to improve you skills. It's a process, not a natural occurrence. Everybody has to work at it :)
PenguinBitch 44
What a terrible written and boring fml. Everyone's a critic OP. Use this as a way to improve.
MayMars 4
You just need to suck it up. Look back at your story and see what people did not like about it and improve it. I am sure that was the reason you publish in that website. Also anything you create will always be subject to people's opinion so get use to the idea someone will not like your writing.