Bad things abound

[carleton97]

So, I suddenly find myself in the midst of a crisis of confidence. I am convinced I should just save everyone the trouble and stop writing all together. Not because of the feedback I receive, or the lack thereof, or because I am tired of fandom and writing. No, at this moment I firmly believe I am the most sucktastic writer in all the world. My plots are non-existent, my style awkward, and my prose decidedly purple. I'm not funny or clever or insightful or poignant or thorough or anything else used to describe any number of genre writers. Additionally, when I do manage to find a dozen words to string together, it takes me several months to even finish composing.

I find it a miracle I am able to string words together coherently enough to create this entry, frankly.

And this isn't a call for positive feedback or anything like that because at this point, I'll just assume it's pity and that you've only read my stories because I either know you and you feel you have to or because I've read yours and you've been guilted into reading mine.

Even knowing this is probably due to a pre-menstrual hormone surge doesn't seem to help matters.

To sum up, I suck.

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In other disturbing news, I seem to be working I the Land of White Tights. That's right, my friends. The women here seem to find opaque white tights to be an acceptable fashion accessory. Now, I'm not the most stylish person in the world, but that's just not right.

Comments

[oriolegirl]

I have never understood white tights. Black tights, yes. White tights, no. They are, indeed, wrong.

[ruggerdavey.livejournal.com]

And this isn't a call for positive feedback or anything like that because at this point, I'll just assume it's pity and that you've only read my stories because I either know you and you feel you have to or because I've read yours and you've been guilted into reading mine.

Pffft. Too bad. I'm giving you positive feedback, anyway. I want my Nick/Greg AU with the San Francisco-ness and the promising not-quite-so-repressed Nick. So, whether you want to hear it or not, your writing is not sucktastic. So there.

[khaoskat.livejournal.com]

I know you don't want reassurances.

...I still have to remind you that I met you by reading and enjoying your fics! Before I knew you. So there.

*pets* I hope you feel better. I really do.

[carolinecrane.livejournal.com]

I go through that every month or so. You've seen me have my little meltdowns in which I'm sure everything I touch sucks like a big sucking thing. So I can say this: the feeling will pass. And when it does, you might even get lucky and have a little writing burst.

As for the pity reading, I think you've heard me trash enough fic to know that I don't read for pity. So if I thought your fic sucked I'd skip it altogether.