Oh wow, thank you! Yeah, we can never really get a clear sense of ourselves from the inside. It’s so helpful to hear feedback on how I come off to somebody who doesn’t live in my head!
I have been trying to make an adjustment, actually. I’m trying to practice getting out of my own way, when it comes to writing. I judge and filter myself so hard that a lot of the time it becomes easier to just not write, and that’s pretty lame.
I KNOW that what matters with a story is that it gets my ideas across well enough that readers will understand and enjoy them, rather than whether it’s spotlessly perfect. (What’s ‘spotlessly perfect’ for a story anyway? I’ve got a lit degree, I spent four years bickering over the writing of history’s greatest and most revered literary names. Perfect is in the eye of the beholder, not the writer.)
When I did Kinktober, I found my way to a headspace where the important thing was to just get my ideas down and worry about judging them later, and since then I’m working hard to make that more habitual.
I suppose, from what I’ve heard from experienced writers, that my writing will never be quite as graceful as it is when the muse is going full blast. And that, I think, has been one of my stumbling blocks. Because in the past, that’s mostly when I have written, so comparing EVERYTHING I write to those times is unfair.
Wait, I missed this line. “your characterisation is still the best ive seen in fandom! x“ ;_; Anon, what are you saying. You’re such a beautiful soul, bless you.
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