madwomanlexie replied to your post: My relationship with arting (someone really needs…

I’m more of an artist than a writer. I’ve tried to write before but sentences come horrible/cheesy. But I have the same frustrations with getting that image in your head onto paper. Not once has a drawing come out the way I saw it. I crumple/tear/chew on paper I’m furious….

Want to know a horrible secret?

Seen from a certain light, all sentences are cheesy.  Like, if you really think about it? WTF are we trying to do, putting some of this stuff down in words?  We’ve all got these great glowing stars and constellations of emotion and truth floating around in our heads, and then you put them down in words and dude.  Tarted up much? XD

Part of learning to write fiction is—I kid you not!—learning to just ignore that part.

It always comes around and gets you eventually, though, like when you’ve been head-down in working on a story for four months and you’ve just stared at it for so long you can’t ignore the stupidity of what you’re trying to do anymore.

Different writers cope with it in different ways.  Me, that’s the point at which I cease to trust my own instincts and call for a beta.  One writer—William Faulkner? Or Hemingway maybe?—said that each time he finished a page, he would tuck it into a drawer and not look at the manuscript till he had finished writing the whole thing.

But if you ever wondered, “What is wrong with my favorite authors?  They’re amazing, but they seem to think they’re terrible!”  That is why.