Thread:JeloElducal/@comment-27480112-20181025121117/@comment-26888167-20181028042240

PeaVZ108 wrote: I wouldn't say all of them aren't bad, in fact I found story ideas like Nitro Mania, Nitro Mania 2.0, Forest Fiends, The Crystals of the Seven Colors and The Return of the Warlord to be great. And they indeed turned out to be good stories.

It's just that this whole ordeal reminded me of that one time when I was writing Plant Heroes Reassemble with Fork. If you didn't know, that's probably one of my worst stories in HoEC. There were just too many parts of that story where Fork criticized on, and after reading back on, I realized Fork's criticisms make sense. Writing that story felt like a train wreck and since then, I started to get more frustrated each time someone criticizes on my ideas. Particularly, you could tell that I became frustrated once everyone started disagreeing with my point of view on the Alan topic. Yes, I criticized you. And maybe I was a bit too harsh that time, and I apologize for that. However, if there's something I've learned in all these years of writing stories, it's to never let someone's criticism bring you down. I remember I used to get criticized all the time back in the pony wiki. At first I would get discouraged, but throughout time I learned to not let the criticism affect me.

I've received lots of criticism back there, and believe me, it's much worse. Here's the translations of some of the criticism I got back there.

"This story is just a copy-paste of this series. Are you really that unoriginal that you have to steal ideas from other series?"

"You have the dumbest protagonist of all. Your character is just a obese pony that somehow saves the world and falls in love with the protagonist of MLP. How realistic is that?"

"Your villains suck. Bright Spark is always messing around and can't be taking seriously."

"Instead of being stuck at the computer all day, go outside, take a walk, and don't come back until you can write something original. I'm not coming here to read an episode of Phineas & Ferb and Steven Universe told by pony OCs."

If you see, some of that is actually pretty true. I'm guilty of taking a bit too much inspiration from other sources at times, and yeah, Red Fork doesn't make that much sense when you think about it. But if I had allowed this to bring me down, I wouldn't have ever written anything here, and we wouldn't even have a series to begin with.

The idea here is that in life, whatever we do, there's always going to be criticism. What we need to do is learn how to overcome it without being discouraged. I know it's hard, but believe me, it can be done.

You know? Most of the time I'm really soft on my criticism, since I don't want to hurt other people's feelings. I guess the one time I was blatantly honest, it did hurt someone's feelings, so sorry for that. It wasn't my intention. However, I do think it would be great for you to learn to overcome criticism so that if in the future someone less friendly than us criticizes you, you'll be able to overcome it without a scratch.