On the advantages and disadvantages of mutual evaluation

Introduction: It is undeniable that having a circle where everyone writes articles and can read each other’s comments is beneficial to improving personal writing skills. But this benefit must first be based on the premise that you are willing to improve yourself and are willing to make various efforts to improve yourself. Otherwise, everything is just a cloud.

First let’s talk about the benefits.

Speaking of benefits, there are no benefits that come out of thin air in the world. Even if someone says there are, you cannot believe them all. If there is no need to pay for something, there is no point in doing it. As far as writing is concerned, if someone writes an article that everyone immediately praises, the story behind it can almost be told in three days and three nights.

What are the absolute benefits? Compared with your original self, the forces that attract attention to you "gather up to attack", and you have to force yourself to adapt to the new situation and respond with all your strength. Compared with the fellow travelers who are constantly emerging in front of you, what you have is really in danger of collapse. You must either muster up the courage to keep working hard, or leave quietly.

Besides, how much more challenges does your faith have to face? If you don’t break out in silence, you will perish in silence. If you believe it, reading a good book and listening to a golden sentence will help you persevere. If you don't believe it, reading thousands of books, even if you soak in chicken soup every day, will not help you move forward.

I registered at the end of August last year. I was very enthusiastic at first and tried various writing methods every day, including two serial novels. I wrote nearly 200,000 words in more than two months, and was also edited. Recommended to the homepage. But now it seems that one of the serials is a bit nondescript, and the opinion articles are also written in a "flowery" way, which is not profound enough. I stopped updating at the end of October last year, and started updating again in April this year. As you can see, it is the article "Mother and Daughter in the Exhibition Hall". That article was revised three times under everyone's intensive comments, and the last time it was almost completely re-conceived, but I was finally satisfied.

What are the relative benefits? Looking around is helpful for finding direction, and re-examining yourself through the eyes of others is helpful for starting over. What's more, the strongest will always have its own strong opponent. Without comparison, there will be no harm. Of course, there will be no superiority and inferiority, and there will be no objective self-evaluation. If you can't find yourself, if you can't understand yourself clearly, you are still naive, and you can't reach the other side of where you want to go.

I have always been interested in novel writing, especially realistic themes. But interest doesn't mean anything. If you don't have good expression and skills, you still can't write a qualified novel. Therefore, you must study and read other people's works, classics and non-classics, and you can learn something from any level of works. It takes time and process to break out of the cocoon and become a butterfly, and it also requires the pain to abandon the original materials that are not conducive to the formation of the work, as well as those self-righteous emotions. Everything takes maturity as the ultimate goal.

The competitive atmosphere is indeed conducive to rapid growth, and no one will refuse the opportunity to re-recognize themselves. If you go your own way, you can reach surprising heights. But what I'm most afraid of is that you can't eliminate troubles in the process. You neither insist on yourself nor easily miss the external forces that consolidate them.

Secondly, let’s talk about the disadvantages.

There are no absolute disadvantages, but there are relative disadvantages.

An author specially invited me to comment on his article, which is an article interpreting certain sentences in Laozi's "Tao Te Ching". We were not in the same circle, but we were on the same platform, so meeting by chance would be better than meeting by chance, so I went there with sincerity.

The article is quite long. It starts with the original text of the Tao Te Ching, and then analyzes it word for word, not to mention quoting scriptures. The whole article is full of links in red font, and those are so-called professional terms, such as hub. Of course, the article also contains the author's own observations and refined opinions to correspond to the sentences explaining the Tao Te Ching. It seems to be quite well-intentioned, but I feel that this interpretation of the Tao Te Ching not only fails to play a role in dissemination, but also complicates simple things. I read it very carefully and wrote down my comments and suggestions very seriously. I also made a little joke as a joke.

What is ironic is that this author ignored the essentials and took advantage of my ridicule, and even made fun of me. My sincerity cannot be said to be insufficient. I continue to remind you that it is just a suggestion. What you really want to pay attention to is my comments on the structure and content of the article. That is my original intention.

Then, no more, I was surprised to find that he deleted my comment. How did I know? Because I found that when I wanted to pay attention to whether he had made any changes, I couldn't find him, along with the comment and invitation he gave me.

So I began to reflect deeply on whether I was taking it too seriously. As I thought about it more and more, it became a bit difficult for me to comment on the article. A promise is a promise, and not keeping it is obviously not my style. It is also my principle to write reviews with a responsible attitude. However, this result surprised me.

Fortunately, there are no such "vulnerable" people in our circle. We are all extremely serious and hard-working people. Every day I write new articles that dazzle me. Even if there are occasional anecdotes and incomprehensible articles, it doesn't hurt. Not every time you can write a good article, and not everyone has the same standards for good and bad, but everyone's enthusiasm for writing articles is always in full swing, which is very contagious to each other.

For a period of time, it is difficult for people to break through themselves. Even if a literary friend points out the problem unceremoniously, he may not necessarily agree with it in his heart, which is okay. The key is that he knows the problem is but doesn't know how to improve it, and even continues to repeat it insipidly. Especially people who originally felt good about themselves will feel discouraged when they suddenly face criticism.

However, a truly brave person is not afraid of criticism and welcomes it. What's really valuable are those critical words. They show that there is room for improvement, and that is what you should work towards now. The emperor's new clothes are beautiful but they don't exist. Although everyone follows you, they are all murmuring in their hearts. It would be better to tell the truth and pierce the mirage, and everyone would be safe.

Not everyone loves it to the same extent, and their understanding and understanding also vary. What do you expect when you open an article, especially when you have to? Whether it's a twinkle in the eye or a sigh depends on the skill of the author and why they're writing.

The disadvantage of this is that sometimes it offends people, but the result of my reflection is not to take it too seriously unless he is the same person as you. Just grasp some basic principles, such as structure, conception, conception, language and perspective, etc. Just like what everyone in our circle is doing now, it is best to focus on encouragement.

On the other hand, you should be respectful of others' criticisms and corrections. Even if you don’t have the mind to accept all rivers, you should at least have the attitude that the big river is full and the small river is full. Learning is always the fastest way to know yourself. Criticism is like acceleration, stimulating us to get closer to our goals as much as possible.

Regardless of the advantages or disadvantages, it is actually a kind of practice. Whether you will not get lost depends entirely on your own heart. Under the squeeze of various realities, there is always no way to hide the weaknesses of human nature, and there is no need to hide. We all know that reality is cruel, so we long for beauty more.

Everyone is in his own hell, everyone is in someone else's heaven.