Thread:JeloElducal/@comment-26888167-20180914020805/@comment-30384301-20180916025708

Redfork2000 wrote: I'm glad you were honest. I was feeling that I might have been too harsh,  but I wasn't too sure until you told me.

Well, to be honest, most of the time I just keep all the criticism to myself, since as CR21 has said a few times, I'm not the kind of person that likes to be blatantly honest. I usually go easy on everyone around me, and try to say things the nicest way possible. I have no idea what made me suddenly go from a soft adviser to a full criticizer, but I'm not enjoying it. I'd hate to hurt anyone's feelings. In fact, that might be part of the reason why I never continued my own review series.

Most of the time I have lots of things to say about how a story could have been improved, but I usually never tell them. I don't know what's made me suddenly say everything that crosses my mind, but I really want to stop. I felt bad for being so harsh on your story to the point where you began to doubt of your own abilities as a writer. With my years writing fiction with others in different wikis, I've learned so much thanks to other people that criticized my stories, and others who did their best to be honest while also pointing me in the right direction. However, I've always had a problem balancing out honesty and kindness when it comes to criticize others' work. Well, sometimes considering that criticism may hurt others' feelings isn't the only factor that makes me decide whether or not to criticize. It does have something to do with my mood at times, meaning that sometimes I can just blatantly criticize on others' works just because I'm not at my best mood at that time, only to regret it later once I lighten up. This doesn't just apply to stories, it also applies to other aspects of the wiki as well. Remember that time I said that I didn't care about Moon Snail's fate when he almost planned for suicide? That was out of plain anger, which gave me an unforgettable regret about what I said to him that day afterwards. Mood does have an effect on what I say about a situation.