Editing Furry (section)

===If you are an artist, or writer, take criticism===
Many Furries are artists, and nobody is gonna take your work seriously if you don't let them try and help you improve it. Unhelpful criticism does exist and you're almost certain to get some assholes who just want to bash on you, but the real critics are the ones trying to help you by pointing out flaws and suggesting ways of correcting them. Even if you don't agree with their advice, you should take it respectfully and actually consider what they are saying, and how it can affect what you are making. 

Speaking of which, here's a few bits of advice for writing:
*Please don't make the Furry species in your story ze Übermensch (in the [[Mary Sue]] sense of the word, not the Nietzschean one.) This is a good general principle for writers as a whole, but many terrible Furry-written stories heavily feature this kind of "[[Chakats|Muh super-special OC race is the best and perfect in all things!]]" bullshit, so there's going to be even less slack cut than usual.
*Try and make sure your Furry species has traits beyond "Is Sexy," "Is morally perfect," and the like. A boring or one-note species only makes the negative traits stand out even more, which is exacerbated even further by the tendency of bad Furry authors to get so wrapped up in masturbating over how sexy/moral/perfect their creations are that they forget to make them ''actually interesting''. That, in turn, leads into the above issue of slack not being cut because people are Done With this Shit<sup>'''TM'''</sup> and don't want to slog through pages of authorial masturbation over how great their creation is.
*Leading on from the above: be judicious with sexualisation. Unless it's porn or smutty romance, spending multiple paragraphs prattling on about how sexy your Furry creation is will probably turn off casual readers, particularly if you suddenly segue into it from an entirely unrelated subject. This goes double for those with more overtly fucked-up fetishes, as excessive sexualisation only makes these look even worse to the average reader.
*If humans are bastards or the real monsters in your story, try and handle it delicately. Give it some nuance, rather than making every human (bar one or two token "good" characters) into one-dimensional, moustache-twirling caricatures straight out of terribly written [[Humanity Fuck Yeah|HFY wank-fics]]. Similar to the first point, a lot of badly-written Furry works heavy-handedly portray humanity as incorrigibly evil bastards, so poor handling risks people dropping it due to the association.