honestly as someone who started writing fic when I was 15 (I'm 22 almost 23 now) negative reviews of your writing stick with you. the last time I posted my own writing on a website was when I was 16 and someone left a review on the first chapter of a story I was really excited to write telling me that the plot I was setting up was boring and too predictable to be worth reading. if you think for one minute that every time I think up a plot that doesn't come back to me, you're wrong.
DDDDDDDDDDD: I’m so, so sorry that happened to you, friend. that freaking sucks. and I know exactly what you mean... I’ve got specific phrases from negative comments stored away in my head, and they will come out to haunt me. they don’t make my writing better; if anything, I think they make it worse? I overthink stuff and fuss and add and take away and have a little cry and then eventually I often end up going back to how I initially and instinctively wrote it, because those were the sentences that came out with confidence.
I bet there would’ve been so many people who’d have loved your story. how could that person even have known it’d be predictable from the first chapter?! even if it was predictable, I’m a fan of that in fics I read!! I like a nice predictable happy ending with happy stops on the way for happiness thank you very much!!!! I want to be able to predict it like Trelawney having one of her Moments!! I want to be Cassandra all up on AO3!! that’s not boring to me!!!!!!!!! pshhhhhhhhhhh. at that commenter, psssssssshHHHHH.