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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ThirdWizard" data-source="post: 3122532" data-attributes="member: 12037">Someone needs to read more emo poetry. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />The whole subjectivity and everything has value thing, to me, seems very grade school-ish. It seems built on keeping people's confidence up over actually saying anything meaningful about their work. And, that's great for kids, but once you're trying to get published or get your movie made, you're beyond that. If you suck, you need to know that you suck. Sugar coating it isn't doing anyone any favors.When I took classes on writing, you can bet that there was criticism. And, that's not a bad thing. If your writing is bad then its bad. See, that's bad writing. Imagine if a book was filled with that stuff. That's an extreme example, but there are just books out there that are written poorly. There are books out there with bad plots, that are completely derivative, or that just suck. If a book can be great, an instant classic, then surely there is some kind of scale to measure quality on.Sure, there are subjetive elements. Not everyone loves Tolkien. Not everyone loves Hemmingway. That doesn't mean that everything has some kind of inner value to it, though. Some things just suck.</blockquote>