Hello dear good question community, this has been going on for 2 days now and I'm getting desperate. I have an incomplete English fanfiction on archive of our own, which I often update. Two days ago I got a pretty bad comment and since then I've been avoiding my laptop and ao3 because I have to think about this stupid comment all the time.
I just do not know how to go on. Yesterday I sat in front of my laptop for 2 hours and could hardly write a paragraph and the whole thing was totally unfocused because I kept hearing these horrible words in my head.
Does any of you know how to get rid of this writer's block and not have to think about it every free minute?
Delete hate comment.
I don't think so. 2. I still have to think about it anyway.
Hateful people will always be everywhere. The most important thing is never to take such comments personally!
Do what you enjoy and never let it get you down!
We don't know why the person wrote this, but just don't think about it anymore. In the future, you'll even have to take a lot more, but that's normal!
Go on! Do what you love and have fun and believe in yourself! Criticism only makes a person stronger and more successful.
I'm pretty sure you did an excellent job and the person was just jealous.
Thank you for the nice words. I have now decided to write a short oneshot for another fandom until I'm back in the flow and no longer think about it.
You could also try to process the comment creatively. I assume that it was an insulting comment. Those who need to insult others on the Internet often have much more problems with themselves than with the other. Imagine the biggest failure you can imagine and just write about him for yourself, as he doesn't get anything else and then sits down at the PC to write a hat comment somewhere, so that he can at least can feel superior for a minute a day ;-)
However, if the comment contained harsh criticism, then consider whether there might be anything in it. If so, use it constructively for you to get better. If no, just ignore it. And above all keep going. Once you are afraid of continuing to write publicly, just do it for yourself without thinking about publishing, just to stay in the flow of writing. You could also try writing something completely different, just for yourself and for fun. Or just write about the blockade, just everything that goes through your head, sometimes the knot comes loose.
This can e.g. Look like this: Damn, I would love to write, but because of this stupid hater, I'm blocked and I don't know what to do and… Preferably with a pen on paper and until you feel like you have everything from your soul to have written or until the knot bursts and you have an idea for the actual text again.
It was very VERY harsh criticism even though I was aware that I still had to practice these points and also said that I would continue to practice it. However, it was very destructive criticism without suggestions for improvement or the like. Quasi like with greta about the climate; "You're doing everything wrong and you're all bad!" but no suggestions for improvement themselves. I can't write about my own thoughts, it never really worked, but I'm going to call a friend and talk to her and write a oneshot for another fandom.
That sounds like a plan:-) Have fun writing:-)
Then I don't know anything.
