Is THAT what I did wrong?
I'm not really mad at them, just frustrated. I KNOW I can't write believable male characters, but I hate writing women, so I ended up with mostly guys (which, as I said and as they pointed out vehemently, I can't do well). But I refuse to start over (don't have time to, anyway!), so now I'm really upset with the story right now (which I already KNEW was crappy, but maybe not HOW crappy - I knew the plot was lame, but thought one or two of my characters were OK). And I don't want false postitive criticism, which is about the only kind of positive criticism I'm likely to get!
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