Small whinge about writing
I am going through a phase in which it feels as if everything I write is rubbish. The words are slapdash, the characters are out of character, I don't know enough details about what's coming up, and my outlines look lamer every time I consider them. Or so it feels.
This seems to be a recurring problem when I am drafting, which is by far the weakest aspect of my writing. I have no patience with or confidence in the idea in my mind/outline, and so my time is spent alternately dashing to the end of the draft (which is not usually worthy of the name draft by the time I do reach the end) and hovering halfway through a scene wondering if it's worth pushing on or just finding something else to write about.
That said, I wrote 4,000 words today on two different projects, and have almost reached the point where one of them could be called a completed draft (albeit draft point 0). So perhaps tomorrow I will be able to print it out and start rebuilding my confidence by prettying up the words, making the characters more real and filling in the plot holes.
(By the way, please, no one feel that you have to comment to tell me my writing doesn't suck. The purpose of this post is to whinge, not to invite praise. :))
Does anyone else go through these phases? I also regularly have the "OMG hide under the table what if nobody likes my story?" reaction when I post fic, but I suspect that's pretty standard.
This seems to be a recurring problem when I am drafting, which is by far the weakest aspect of my writing. I have no patience with or confidence in the idea in my mind/outline, and so my time is spent alternately dashing to the end of the draft (which is not usually worthy of the name draft by the time I do reach the end) and hovering halfway through a scene wondering if it's worth pushing on or just finding something else to write about.
That said, I wrote 4,000 words today on two different projects, and have almost reached the point where one of them could be called a completed draft (albeit draft point 0). So perhaps tomorrow I will be able to print it out and start rebuilding my confidence by prettying up the words, making the characters more real and filling in the plot holes.
(By the way, please, no one feel that you have to comment to tell me my writing doesn't suck. The purpose of this post is to whinge, not to invite praise. :))
Does anyone else go through these phases? I also regularly have the "OMG hide under the table what if nobody likes my story?" reaction when I post fic, but I suspect that's pretty standard.