When your work and suggestions get rejected often. (And don't get accepted much)

┻━┻ ︵ヽ(`Д´）╯︵ ┻━┻ · 2011-06-28 07:38:28

The motivation killing to do more work and add more suggestions is annoying.

Malkavian · 2011-06-28 07:58:00

It's why creative work is something you very actively want to do. While I enjoy writing, I don't have the fire in my belly for such a thing.

┻━┻ ︵ヽ(`Д´）╯︵ ┻━┻ · 2011-06-28 07:58:58

I'm okay with creative work when it's only me doing it since I can do whatever I want.

SotiCoto · 2011-06-28 08:03:49

Don't submit it for criticism then.
I've found I'm getting a LOT more work done on my Flash adventure game / RPG thingie than I would otherwise just because nobody else knows what I've done with it so far. ^_^

... Wait... edging dangerously close to leaking information... 0_o;
...... Oh... but nobody here gives a fuck, so we're ok. ^_^

┻━┻ ︵ヽ(`Д´）╯︵ ┻━┻ · 2011-06-28 08:05:29

The work I am speaking of in the opening post is for a group project rather than me getting people to criticize the work I did for myself.

SotiCoto · 2011-06-28 08:15:03

If it is a group project then it is not your work... even if you're part OF the group. So why care?

┻━┻ ︵ヽ(`Д´）╯︵ ┻━┻ · 2011-06-28 09:05:23

I did work for parts of it and those parts are getting rejected by the rest of the group. It's my work but it isn't going into my pile.

SotiCoto · 2011-06-28 10:36:32

Is the group a musical band?

Are they stifling your creative vision?

You could go solo. That is generally the done thing in such situations. You won't succeed, but at least you'll get some measure of dignity back... or possibly lose it, depending on perspective.

So anyway, why are the rest of the group rejecting your work? Whyfore? Will they tell you?

Or is it a large group that on the basis of its girth feels no responsibility to explain why it is rejecting your work and believes it has the right to do so just because it consists of many more people than you?

┻━┻ ︵ヽ(`Д´）╯︵ ┻━┻ · 2011-06-28 10:42:34

Rejection reasons:

Unoriginal

More information revealed will make character less interesting due to lack of mysteriousness (Or "more exposure to said character will make them less interesting")

Makes it seem related to a different work

Don't remember any others, though I did notice some "ignore what that guy just posted and lets talk about this other thing" without commenting on if they prefer mine or the other person's.

The project is a fighting game.

SotiCoto · 2011-06-28 10:47:06

Respond by overcomplying with their criticisms.
Try making character that is ridiculously original to the point of batshit-insanity... and also super-mysterious because pretty much none of it is given any explanation.
Deliver it to them in the most sarcastic manner possible.

... Or... y'know... just quit. Do your own thing.

┻━┻ ︵ヽ(`Д´）╯︵ ┻━┻ · 2011-06-28 10:50:17

I'm not interested in pissing them off though. I just want my stuff to be used. I don't care about praise, meaningless attention, compliments on my efforts, I just want the stuff to not be thrown away.

It's also supposed to be a project about yourselves as fighting game characters, so having a part of my character changed is kind of like changing me. If I wanted to be original i'd have made someone who uses a rusty aluminium foil loincloth that has burnt chicken wings attached to his back, but I went for an angelic knight instead.

I could just refuse to contribute since my character is one of the more important guys and taking him out would damage the existing plot which means he'll probably get in anyway to stop wasting my own time but I like it when my efforts lead to something.

SotiCoto · 2011-06-28 11:21:16

"about yourselves as fighting game characters" ... "an angelic knight" ....
So you're actually an angelic knight? Like in real life?

┻━┻ ︵ヽ(`Д´）╯︵ ┻━┻ · 2011-06-28 11:23:06

No that's just what I consider representative of what I want to be and what i'd try to be.

The stuff that's more like me right now would go into the personality and history and stuff rather than the appearance.

SotiCoto · 2011-06-28 11:25:36

This might sound silly... but why not put yourself in a fighting game just... as you are? No embellishment... except maybe with some vague fighting ability if you have none in person. I dunno.

Counterclock · 2011-06-28 11:25:37

Do you mind going into detail about the phrase "Angelic knight"?

┻━┻ ︵ヽ(`Д´）╯︵ ┻━┻ · 2011-06-28 11:54:44

Because I don't find that interesting, I prefer fiction over reality most of the time anyway, plus it would offer a little too much detail about me, either that or it would be too vague. Besides it's not like anybody else is restricting themselves to what they are realistically anyway.

Angelic knight as in a knight(noble soldier) who (in personality) was angelic/benevolent/particularly virtuous/saintly/you know all that (this is not the actual case for me, or at least I think so, I was pretty damn ruthless under age 6 or so to anyone I hated, but I do like the concept of someone being one of the better guys from the start, to the extent of considering them better people than those who became such afterwards like when they reach adulthood or whatever.) In this specific case also including being literally a celestial being, with the stereotypical look of an angel and all.

Also if I put myself as I am in the fighting game I would keep getting killed too fast by the gun users.

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