It's mostly when I read fic at night that I wonder how on earth people like
ronsard (under
Quillslinger) or
Lys ap Adin or so many other writers can just create fics that are amazingly heartwrenching. I, like them, weild words and lay them down to my liking, but when I look at my works and read theirs, I just feel there is this huge disconnect between our abilities, when all it is is how we place down words in the same language onto a space? True, I tend to write a lot of silly, fantastically romantic things because that's what I like, but when I try my hand at something serious and meant to make you think and hurt, I just feel that my joking hand still makes itself known so readers don't really feel it, they only see my attempt at emotion? I may not have been around long enough to feel the full range of emotions, but I think I've felt enough to write angst...but I suppose not.
Perhaps it's the same that you cannot be tickled by your own hand, but while I feel such a broad range of feelings when I read their dramatic fics, I don't really have the same reaction to my own.