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Today, I realized that not only am I still an unpublished author, but I can't even get an FML posted after submitting several in the last year.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)
mysterion115 14
ouch
honora_ 5
What website is it?
NellyFC35 19
Don't stop writing!.....If writing is what you love then keep doing what you do......;)....those are just a few opinions from ppl who were probably jealous
alfred07 18
Please could you post a link? I will read and give constructive feedback.
lzmo 20
You either got it or you don't , sorry
missd420 16
Did you learn everything you know perfectly the first time you did it? Everything takes practice.
KayleeT 9
You may want to consider the fact that you're not a natural writer. But if its what you really want to do, keep at it
Hamz1989 13
Start writing a novel relating mostly to love and lust and some storyline similar to Harry Potters. It should be a best seller.
grace_rulean_92 2
Keep writing, OP. I don't know what or what about you wrote, so I can't compliment or criticize it, but my advice to you is to write as often as you can. Plus, it may help to read over what you've written to make sure you're not gushing, writing sentences in building blocks, or making ridiculous grammatical errors. Go through your "best writing ever" and find ways to make the chapter even more astounding than you could have ever believed it to be (extreme editing). Ignore the stinking and sliming Internet toadstools and work hard so that creative writing becomes one of your most adept areas. (:
akiahara 14
Perhaps they're not trolls... maybe it was really bad.
Jazzalyn 10
Don't let it discourage you OP :). Something similar happened to me too. 10 years later and I still enjoy writing things :) I would suggest maybe getting someone to read it before you post next time though :).