The old antique shop - Part three

[curedolly]

Hm, I'm thinking of maybe switching this part and part two. I have a feeling anyway that everything that's posted now are just fragments that I will try to expand, change the order of and so on.
By the way, I've tried googling a bit for the biggest problem I have without any real results (don't know really how to phrase the search words). I can't

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[curedolly]

Thank you :) I love creating worlds with a lot of detail, even if I don't use everything I 'know' about the world later - it give a nice feeling to things :) Often I can sit and do research for an hour for something that's going to be in one paragraph - but that's just because I'm geeky like that ^^
I'm glad you like him! He's a character that I sort of adopted from an unfinished story, I've been fooling around with him for a while and this story seemed to suit him! I'm glad you like the myth-references too <3 I like mixing the real ones with ones that could be real, and I've always been very fascinated with the celts as well :) I'm thinking that if there are to be magic in this world (that is, the one I'm creating, which is like ours only different... ) it would be fairly logical if it was closely connected to the myths we have.
Hehe, the descriptions were the kind of thing that wrote itself, I seem to remember viewing the world similarly when I was a certain age :)

At last, someone with the same type of problem :) I've heard some people have trouble restricting their writing and have to cut things down from several hundred pages, and I've never really been able to conjure up a lot of sympathy for that kind of problem :P Maybe I'll get there eventually...

I think the mistake I have done a couple of times is show things too early, while they're still in the idea stage. Now I'm a bit scared of showing things to my real world friends, because I have a feeling I will get stuck again. It's great to have some people here though, the type of comments one gets here is really encouraging and makes me want to go on and actually finish this story :) I'm always a bit too hard on myself and will eventually start to hate everything I've made, which is usually the sign of taking a break and come back later. Having people I've never actually seen telling me that they like what I write for some reason makes me happier than when my friends tell me the same thing (because I have this feeling that they will say so whatever I write...)
Thank you for your awesome comments :) I'm personally not very good at giving critique and saying what I liked most and so on, but I'm practising here on lj :)

[magickeyboard]

Critiquing can be as hard as writing sometimes so I definitely understand! And don't be too hard on yourself because from what I've seen your definitely an amazing writer! It's just finding the time and energy and inspiration to sit down and do it that's the hard part, at least for me :-) I'm definitely with you on finding it hard to sympathize with people who write hundreds of pages and have to pare down, I'm usually struggling to get dozens of pages.
LJ is definitely a good place to practice writing and critiquing and you're right its easier sometimes to hear rejection from strangers and makes compliments sweeter since you know they have no personal stake in you.