You know, I am always so entertained by all the things you talk about ... about yourself and your life and your opinions ♥. You make everything sound so interesting and exciting (OUCH on the timpani!!). I wasn't a performer myself on the musical side—I have absolutely zilch sense of rhythm, but I was quite used to getting on stage for speech, prose readings and poem recitals and all those talky things. Those were the events that for a elementary school child, nerve breaking when they happened—standing alone before judges and other contestants and often reciting something in a foreign language—but they are REALLY funny as memories.
One tidbit that many people have found strange—if my mom watched me, as a rule, I screwed up BIG TIME. Forgot the words or cracked up. She never quite understood how I had won a trophy or two for that reason—she had never seen me not suck :D.
From those competitions there weren't a lot of in depth reviews. But when I stood there—and there's not much to do other to look at the audience and speak—what I learned was to read faces; and sometimes those could be scarier than crits. You know, a cringe, an eye-roll, a sneer; the worst thing wasn't the sight of them but when the brain went on overdrive to intepret each expression while the performance must continue.
So I learned to shut my brain down and just listen to myself (yeah, me and my ego! :D). IMHO, for any crit, in fandom, in RL—now I get crit every now and then presentations—the best policy I can think of is ... not think too much, as in, don't read too much into it. Chances are, most people don't bother to spend the time and effort to place layers of meaning into an opinion, or extend their view of the work as a metaphor of the author; they love it, the don't. They think it's right, it's wrong... hot or cold (wait...) and that's pretty much it. And it can be just a matter of method of presentation rather than the thought process that the audience disagree with—which everyone responds differently :). While some people say we shouldn't trust what our friends say I tend to disagree with that as well—they are the ones who are willing to spend time to think our things through and their opinions shouldn't be discredited just because they love us. Everyone of us can be quite likeable at times and we just can't help it, can we??? ♥
OH. THAT PUPPY!!!! *adores*. That is the cutest thing.... it, indeed, brought a grin to my face.
And I need to read that fanfic you've referred to...
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One tidbit that many people have found strange—if my mom watched me, as a rule, I screwed up BIG TIME. Forgot the words or cracked up. She never quite understood how I had won a trophy or two for that reason—she had never seen me not suck :D.
From those competitions there weren't a lot of in depth reviews. But when I stood there—and there's not much to do other to look at the audience and speak—what I learned was to read faces; and sometimes those could be scarier than crits. You know, a cringe, an eye-roll, a sneer; the worst thing wasn't the sight of them but when the brain went on overdrive to intepret each expression while the performance must continue.
So I learned to shut my brain down and just listen to myself (yeah, me and my ego! :D). IMHO, for any crit, in fandom, in RL—now I get crit every now and then presentations—the best policy I can think of is ... not think too much, as in, don't read too much into it. Chances are, most people don't bother to spend the time and effort to place layers of meaning into an opinion, or extend their view of the work as a metaphor of the author; they love it, the don't. They think it's right, it's wrong... hot or cold (wait...) and that's pretty much it. And it can be just a matter of method of presentation rather than the thought process that the audience disagree with—which everyone responds differently :). While some people say we shouldn't trust what our friends say I tend to disagree with that as well—they are the ones who are willing to spend time to think our things through and their opinions shouldn't be discredited just because they love us. Everyone of us can be quite likeable at times and we just can't help it, can we??? ♥
OH. THAT PUPPY!!!! *adores*. That is the cutest thing.... it, indeed, brought a grin to my face.
And I need to read that fanfic you've referred to...