International Geek-Out Report (and a note on catching up)
First, the note: I haven't gotten any further with my LJ catch-up plans because it was the last week-and-a-half of term and I was busy doing university stuff (except for the three days beccatoria was visiting me, when I was busy geeking out). Will get around to the catching up next week, I think.
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Now for the International Geek-Out Report.
beccatoria arrived on ( Read more... )
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Now for the International Geek-Out Report.
beccatoria arrived on ( Read more... )
Hey, even dead kids need parents. Plus this can be pre-death. She can be Kara's growth-stunted irritating twin. Or maybe the eight year old that's really mad the six year old keeps out-doing her.
I'm going to skip over all the praise because it makes me shy, because I'm genuinely uncomfortable believing I'm better than people even if I am (and there are lots of people I think I'm better than - there's that irritating meglomania/fear of arrogance rearing its head again!)
>The fact that you are very talented indeed does not guarantee anything, of course. It does not even guarantee you'll manage to write a single decent book in your lifetime. (This was the blunt part, in case you hadn't noticed.)
That blunt part doesn't upset me. Or rather, the notion does upset me but you saying it doesn't, because it's something I'm hugely and acutely aware of. It's the main reason I feel unworthy of the praise sometimes given me (by you, but also by others like my writing profs at uni) because I feel a fraud. Like you say in your comment, one can be great at a certain aspect of writing (language) but fail, utterly at another (plot). That and my character flaws that prevent me from getting on with anything really do cause me to fear that I'll end up wasting whatever talent I do have. I think this is a real and terrifying possibility and it's one of the reasons I feel uncomfortable being held up as "better" than anyone.
See? We're both allowed self-indulgent self-centric posts!
Ooh, also, watched Life on Mars. Also will likely get to the 68 Wives beta work tomorrow or friday (going out this evening for Valentine's thingy) and get it back to you by the weekend at the latest. Hope that's all right. :)
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