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Today, I realized that not only am I still an unpublished author, but I can't even get an FML posted after submitting several in the last year.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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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)
maz95 17
The painful truth may hurt but at least you now know that writing just isn't for you. You should still write if it's what you enjoy doing...just do it as a secret hobby, no one has to know!
SystemofaBlink41 27
Or she could just keep at it? Just compare your work to Stephanie meyers and use it as a self esteem booster...
eericcartman 5
I would rate this FML zero stars if I could...
akiahara 14
If you're that bad, how do you not know? Is it the technical aspect that's terrible, or the story itself, I wonder?
hunny797 5
Why are you not revealing your face??
buddy51 23
Both.
ShellyLahey 14
My friend can't write (she has good ideas, but her writing isn't that great) and I keep telling her I made a journal about how to write and to read it and pass it on; she obviously hasn't. Some people don't realize the fact that they can't write.
shutupAnderson 7
Not enough smut in this fml.
vocaloidtiger 12
Come on Sherlock, work your logical magic and figure out exactly why and how OP is such a bad writer, what influenced her to write this FML, and the REAL truth behind the matter. I'd help you out with this case, but I'm busy going out to dinner with my new girlfriend because I'm NOT GAY.
rattusrattus 19
You are aware that Master of the Universe, later to become 50 Shades of Grey, got over 40,000 positive reviews? People on the internet have no taste. (Your work could be terrible, but I've seen what's popular on the internet and it's all wish-fullfillment suefic.)
EvilUndead 9
Are you aware that 40000 represents a very small percentage of worlds population? That's 0.0005% of all people. For some reason when people see a "big" crowd they lose sight of the big picture. Crowd in question might actually be a loud minority.
TheNewGuy03 29
Because everyone on the ******* earth reads or is capable of reading books and using the internet. Even timeless works from famous authors are not going to get read by every single human. Dumbass.
curlstar 6
Do they know it's only the first chapter? Take the opportunity to improve, learn, and grow. Master your craft!
EvilUndead 9
IF you want to write, keep writing. People don't continuosly produce bestselleres, so you can improve. Also, no matter what you write, somebody, somewhere will hate it. Another thing that on the internet that are many trolls, assholes and teenagers. So if you want recognition, the internet doesn't look like the right place to get it. I'd advise to write for fun, not for recognition - it might be easier that way.
ManInTheMachine 20
This is true. Fun fact: J.K. Rowling was rejected over 100 times before her book was published. Keep trying, OP! If it was actually as bad as they said it was, then just use this as a stepping stone and learn from your mistakes.
Noxialis 10
It seems that every time someone brings up Rowling, there are more rejections or more hardship. Not saying she wasn't lucky, talented and in a difficult situation, but still, the situation shouldn't get increasingly worse once it's over.
carminecris89 13
That's devastating but atleast you put it out there. Keep trying! Don't give up.
upallnight11 19
If that's your best writing, I think you should rethink your career.
Quizzical 8
It's her "best writing yet." She can learn and improve from this, and general practice.
shiarrael 13
Ignore it. The internet is full of trolls who live to ruin people's dreams. You write because you like to and because you want to. Who cares what the internet thinks?