Writerly Insecurities
Feb. 11th, 2008 12:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
only_more_loveNot much time to post right now, but I wanted to jot down some thoughts while they were fresh in my mind. I wrote and posted Why I Write: A Personal Statement because I knew there would be moments like this--when I would look at my writing and think:
1. Who the hell am I kidding? I have no idea what I'm doing.
2. It's pedestrian, derivative, boring, and just plain bad.
3. There's so much I have to learn; I don't even know if I'm capable of learning it.
4. What if I just don't have anything meaningful to say?
Sometimes I think I am my own worst enemy.
1. Who the hell am I kidding? I have no idea what I'm doing.
2. It's pedestrian, derivative, boring, and just plain bad.
3. There's so much I have to learn; I don't even know if I'm capable of learning it.
4. What if I just don't have anything meaningful to say?
Sometimes I think I am my own worst enemy.
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Date: 2008-02-11 08:26 pm (UTC)I understand how you're feeling because I tend to get hypercritical of myself at times, too.
For someone who has no idea I think you are doing pretty good. A lot of your stuff is original and well written. Most days it is the best fic I've read all day.
Even tho I'm not sure where some of your fic is going it is well written.
I've been trying to find some B/B fic and other than a few LJ sites I'm not having much luck. You know what that means don't you? FF. *shudders* Booth's 'suite', fighting in 'Irak' (seriously! I saw that one the other day.), stuff that avoids canon, and all sorts of stange "plots" and punctuation going on. Your stuff is an oasis of sanity in comparison!
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