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[elanya]

So as others have been saying of late, I'd like to try using dreamwidth/livejournal more. I don't do much with it these days - I don't even use it for lists as much as I used to, though I really should try. I can't decide if this current desire is simply a mark of a slow day at work (That will be changing soon, I'm sure) or a desire to

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[curtana]

I have thoughts :) I think you're a strong writer, but anyone can work on being better, of course. I think that often you are a hasty writer, and especially a hasty poster - this is connected, more than likely, to the desire for praise and immediate gratification, but it can also lead to stories that are less polished than they could be. I don't just mean typos but also prose/diction/editing issues (but also, typos ;) Some of the benefit from YT might be not just the prompts that lead you to write things you wouldn't otherwise write, but also that it forces you to sit on your stories for a while before they go up, and you then do more editing, get more beta feedback, etc. than you otherwise would. Also, of course, you're writing for a specific person you don't know, so you are trying harder to please them than you would when you write for yourself or for a close friend (<3) who is going to love whatever you produce.

You might benefit from seeking out a feedback/concrit comm to post your stories to as works-in-progress, or from finding other betas who are not me (and thus less likely to be automatically squeeful... I do like the squeeing, but I recognize it's probably not always helpful in terms of improving the story!) I'll try to think if I have any other ideas <333

[elanya]

Yes, you are probably right. Okay, definitely right. About the hastiness. I'm too impatient, and I don't know how to work on that @_@ I'm sure my Changeling story this year could have used more editing to make things a little tighter, but I couldn't figure out where/how to accomplish that.

(typos /o\)

[curtana]

Well, that was sort of why I thought a concrit comm might be a good solution - it lets you post WIPs and get that immediate feedback (which would gratify the impulse for a response, any response - which I totally understand, btw) without it being the "finished" story, giving yourself the opportunity to continue to work on it and make changes, and hopefully guidance on what specific changes might be good <3

[elanya]

Now I just have to find such a place, hmmm....

[curtana]

Maybe yulechat might have suggestions of good comms :)