Am I blowing my own cover here? I remember railing at you earlier about how I don't like my own writing, and now it's quite clear that I am intensely proud of it. Well, kind of. It's a love-hate relationship, for sure...
No, I definitely understand where you're coming from. If you are like me, each story represents a piece of you on which you have spent countless hours planning, writing, thinking about, and to have someone else recognize your efforts is great. That you can take that same piece of writing and shred it (and yourself, as the author) simply means (to me) that you are constantly growing as a writer, to the point where you are improving up even your best work.
I have the same love-hate relationship with my stories. I love them for the effort I put into them...and I hate them for never being quite good enough. Still, it feels nice to have someone say that a piece of my writing did for them what I intended for it to do. For example, when people comment on the characterizations and family relationships in AMC...that was something on which I focused, and so it's nice to be recognized as successful in that, even if I read my chapters and think that I could have done better.
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Date: 2006-02-09 03:19 pm (UTC)No, I definitely understand where you're coming from. If you are like me, each story represents a piece of you on which you have spent countless hours planning, writing, thinking about, and to have someone else recognize your efforts is great. That you can take that same piece of writing and shred it (and yourself, as the author) simply means (to me) that you are constantly growing as a writer, to the point where you are improving up even your best work.
I have the same love-hate relationship with my stories. I love them for the effort I put into them...and I hate them for never being quite good enough. Still, it feels nice to have someone say that a piece of my writing did for them what I intended for it to do. For example, when people comment on the characterizations and family relationships in AMC...that was something on which I focused, and so it's nice to be recognized as successful in that, even if I read my chapters and think that I could have done better.