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Today, I realized that not only am I still an unpublished author, but I can't even get an FML posted after submitting several in the last year.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)
viagradoesntwork 7
You could've been getting trolled
FaygoAndMiracles 18
Don't worry. It might have just been people with different tastes that read and commented on it, or, if you truly are bad, most people start off not good at things and then get better. I'm not a very good writer, but I am better than when I first started, and, I've been drawing all my life, my drawings when I was really young were terrible, but, I'm getting a lot better at it now.
ash1rose 11
That's awful OP. It's hard not to get discouraged. My novel has been rejected too many times to count and I just got a short published. All you can do is edit, revise, and try to move forward. I'm curious about the piece you put up though and I give very considerate critiques :)
simetradon 1
Perhaps you should stop writing. Forever.
nightrose0087 10
Which website?
west_coast_chic 6
Get involved in another hobby, and when you have a kid make sure the kid knows when he/she is good at something, or bad at something. Trust me, (and you should know now) that knowing things you're bad at will help later on
Satoaoi 13
who cares you tried your best don't let people bring you down. if it's good to you it's good. you ahead and write your heart out
Iwannabetreo 11
Don't beat yourself up about it. If you like writing just keep at it and it'll get better.
iloveandy143 7
Many great Authors had their first manuscripts rejected
natalalaliee 9
Try to find out what's wrong with it and go from there. Obviously they're brutally honest, so if you find out your flaws you can fix them. Instead of being hurt or offended, think of this as an opportunity to improve!