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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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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Today, I realized that not only am I still an unpublished author, but I can't even get an FML posted after submitting several in the last year.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)
perdix 31
Well, this is the greatest FML story I've ever seen on this site! You just needed to find your niche and this is it! ***** Five stars out of five -- Sheer Genius! I offer a course for $799 on how to make money writing for FML. If you sign up for it, I will show you how I made my first $799 writing for FML.
ViviMage 40
What can they really decide in 10 minutes? Likely trolls.
MidnaLink 35
Actually, you'd be surprised. It just depends on how fast they read it or how far they actually read.
akiahara 14
Bad writing doesn't take long to spot. I'm not going to read the whole book if the first chapter or two is atrocious.
artinwords 14
If its not all sex and gore people dont like it. Id be interested in reading it and giving some constructive crit rather than just being mean.
CharresBarkrey 16
If it was on a writing website, where everyone is writers, I doubt that's what they're looking for.
kawaiisakura 12
#73 I write stories and post them on a writing website. I even ask my readers for criticism so I know what I could improve on. Yea its nice hearing if its awesome, but even better when there's advice
missd420 16
I post a lot on writing websites hoping people tell me what is wrong with it. Without criticism, there's no room for improvement. If everyone said "Oh this is amazing and perfect!", I would never grow as a writer. Don't shut down and give up because people didn't like your story right off the bat, but don't take criticism as insult either.
MSCCG 16
Sometimes when you feel smug about a piece of writing it can mean that you used too many literary devices or spent too much time with a thesaurus which can actually make your work feel clunky and unnatural.
akiahara 14
Purple prose is a major writing sin.
TheyCallMeDamien 18
Just keep trying. Rome wasn't built in a day.
Angeuh_fml 21
Please, give us the link so we can help you to be sure ^^
supportcommand 17
You may have a future in writing stories for porno. They all suck too.
scottyrocks123 21
Never stop your writing. Eventually, you will get better OP!
shak1273 2
Stephanie Meyer, is that you?
SashaAwk 3
It was probably only coming from one person