While I agree with many things that have been said, personally, I'd like to say: A true friend will be honest with you, a stranger will usually be honestly brutal, and someone who cares too much or is too scared, won't say anything at all. If you post a story/novel/poem/lymric/whatever on here and enable comments to be posted, you, being the one who allowed it, shouldn't have a right to get mad at a HELPFULL, but CRITIC comment. Anyone would be mad if they recieve a comment saying, "Your writing sucks." But if it were "Your writing could be much better if..." or something similar, then, in my opinion, you shouldn't get mad. As for me, I am a writer and have been for about 5 years I guess and due to my unpopularness here and the fact that a lot of people, from what I've seen myself, are too brutal for me to post something that means so much to me. LOL. Just as some advise: If you want your work critiqued, find your best friend(s), ask/beg them to be completly 100% honest, and ask them to read your story. It's what I do. :-D

I've blabbed long enough...enjoy everyone.

Jay