Berkeley Appeals Letter - SOB story??

Camille
Sat, 10 May 2008 04:01:26 +0000

Much like Ashlee Simpson, I now wish to God I had never written a bunch of crap and put it out for people to see in the first place. But now that I’ve decided what I want to do, I have to follow through and just keep going.

As a writer I am still learning to take constructive criticism with grace and not just start spewing obscenities left and right like a lot of people like to do. But I will start by saying: thank you all for responding.

But to some of you: stay humble.

To Dekscholar: I don’t know you, but I think I’ve seen you post around this board, and I don’t believe I ever saw you refer to yourself as an English professor. Therefore, I presume you are just another student. So don’t throw out criticisms on grammatical structure, particularly after I’ve had actual English professors look it over. They commented on the content, but did not note any grammar errors. To put it another way, don’t be the coach when you’re just another member of the team.

And also, people prefacing their comments with “not to be mean” or things of that sort, just be direct. If you want to be mean, just be mean. Your comments are going to let me know how you feel anyway, so why try to soften the blow if I can already see the 2-by-4 coming at my face?

Again, thank you. Now I have to go and find something to take the red out of my cheeks (yes, I’m blushing.) What sucks is that I can’t trash this thread so more people will flock to comment on the Lifetime movie script that is my appeals letter, so please, to you new-viewers, no more knives in the wrists (it’s burning, and I’m running out of novocaine…not that you’ll listen or anything.)

-Camille