That means negative thoughts and negative criticism. It happens a lot in this kind of set up. People want to help so they tell you what they didn’t like. It’s a rare person who searches to find the good stuff. That stuff is usually taken as not something necessary to say.

You are a wonderful writer.

Obviously these people think you are too because usually in groups like that if you don’t think a writer is on to something, you don’t bother to read it closely enough to come up with lots to say.

CW is the right place to push yourself, try new things. How long would it take me to find out what you found out today? And, for the record, it doesn’t take three tickets to say “this crap wasn’t worth my time and can’t be salvaged”.

Feel free to write fluffy stuff, but make sure you write another statement story while you’re there. You have something to say; you have the skill to tell it.

Like Mur Lafferty says, you are allowed to write crap. (Not saying Versimilitoad was crap, but it would be okay if it was.) Everyone does it. Playing it safe is squandering an opportunity.

End of pep talk. Go write.