Friend promises to read my work in progress for critique

>Friend promises to read my work in progress for critique
>Tells me he'll be free in one month
>Ask him the day after one month if he's ready
>Says yes, tomorrow
>Doesn't read it for a week
>Promises to read it the next day for certain
>Still no mention of it 3 days later
>He just talks to me about what video games he's been playing

You know, false hope hurts. I wish people would support their friends more in their endeavors.

I didn't make this thread to post my work, which I won't, even if asked, but damn, lads. Do you guys go through similar suffering when it comes to your writing process?

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>Do you guys go through similar suffering when it comes to your writing process?
I don't have any friends so no.

I think that's better than being told they will read it and ignoring it completely.

How do you determine your flaws?

>How do you determine your flaws?
I know when other people tell me. Or my nagging conscious tells me.

Make more friends b c:

I've never understood this supposed issue of nothing seeing your own writing faults, and at the same time you're supposed to notice it in others'. I guess I don't write fiction. But don't you rewrite your serious stuff so that you have text to compare? (Including increasing or decreasing "pacing", or changing plot points all together.)

So if not friends, do people review your published books and that's how you get feedback? Fair enough, that's a very grindy way of doing it, but hey, if it works, then bravo. If you hit the big leagues that way, then a congrats to you, user.

Shit, man, I consider most of my current friends to be great people. They just don't seem to take my aspirations seriously, for some reason.

I re-read everything and if something doesn't sound right, I change it. However, it's the same as something like boxing, for example. Someone watching your fight from the outside could more readily notice your flaws as a fighter than you can. Same with a hard video game boss, or something. You feel like you're doing everything right, but you keep dying to that boss, and then someone who has beat the game points out what you're doing wrong. Maybe I should just read more and compare my writing to other's.

Yeah but that boxer is usually a novice which means 'write more' for you (or it's to remind the boxer of stuff he already knows since he'll be unable to look at his notes once he's in the ring—a bit like studying for a test, but you're not studying for a test, you're rewriting the test all the time and have nigh infinite time, relatively speaking); or the analogy fails because you're not writing with someone (like some poetry battle).

That is true. The very first writers in history had no reference to take from. Only their own instincts and talent. I suppose I should rely on myself and not others. Thank you.

Not gonna lie, I'm guilty of this. I know it's a shitty thing to do but there are days when I just flat out don't want to critique my friends' shitty work. I have to be in a very specific mood to analyze what they wrote and give them the most effective feedback. If I'm not in that mood, I'll just be rushing through it to get it out of the way. This results in me giving weak, half-assed feedback, which would be a waste of both my time and my friends' time.

I have no problem with waiting for the right time to critique. It's just that hollow promises are simply demoralizing. The worst part is perhaps how it feels as if they're wiping the idea of reading your work from existence until they've hit boredom, which is usually when people are willing to critique.

Feedback from a fellow author and feedback from a reader are also quite different, and he is no author. All I really want is a "this was overall enjoyable or not very enjoyable" and maybe a 100 word paragraph explaining the bad/good parts.

Pushing your friend to do it is almost violent. Let it be, he will read it eventually

Good luck with your work

Thanks. I swear, I'll be a well established author some day, Yea Forums.

and what good will that do? do you aspire to become a writer for the "aesthetics" or do you have a story that needs to be told?

I'm sorry bro, I'll get round to it I swear

He's not a friend.

I have dozens of stories that ABSOLUTELY cannot die with me. My characters and tales deserve to live on well before my passing, in a form more concrete than even myself. It's not money, I want. It's for others to love the characters that I love, as well, and to enjoy the journey of their lives. I WILL NOT LET THEM DIE IN OBSCURITY, DAMN IT.

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Haha thanks bro.

He's a very lazy friend who probably thinks "user is just user, he's not Malcolm X or Hidetaka Miyazaki, so reading his work will probably be boring, so I kinda don't wanna"

imagine feeling entitled to having friends read your shit

Imagine not reading anything I said, nibber.

I have another friend who hasn't read anything, but he never said when he would, so I have no anticipation or false promises from him.

Also imagine not having friends who want to help you.

You could practice saying that in way that draws you in and not so that we cringe

I thought you wanted me to go all in. But yeah, it's cringe.

Normalfags can't keep their promises. Just try to set up a meeting date and they'll always be busy or be 3 hours late.
Fuck this unpunctual society.

I never understood why people did this. It's some weird rule of if you don't want to do something, promise you'll do it and then just don't do it instead of refusing outright.

Friendship is perhaps the biggest lie one can deceive themselves with.

Maybe they just don't feel like being around people.

I've gotta hang out with mates and get pissed this Friday but I honestly cannot be fucked with it at all, we've been planning it for a month so I don't have to heart to bitch out.

If you're friends with normies, sure

If that's the case they should just say so. Eff the societal rule that you can't just say "Na. I'd rather do something else right now"