I miss the Snowflake Challenge.

[spiced_wine]

I looked forward every day to what the next one would be. There was much appreciation and love. I did accept keiliss challenge to post more on LJ. I generally don't post much, but surely I can find something to say. Or to ask? What's every-one doing fandom-wise?

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[spiced_wine]

Actively wanting to write something else might be an improvement for me. Usually challenges bring out my 'cannot write, have never been able to write, want to crawl under a rock' side *g*.

This sounds like a good time to find this quote from an article I read about writers.

Your taste is why your work disappoints you.

It also explains how some really untalented writers and musicians and are more confident and less inhibited about self-promotion than the good ones. Low standards, met easily. If you’re self-conscious about showing your work, good, there’s a reason for that. Bad artists are bad because they don’t know what good looks like.

I have seen this a lot; people who really cannot write being immensely confident, beaming with pride, while the fic authors I know who genuinely are good are pulling he blinds down, hunching in a chair and telling themselves they're awful. It is the strangest phenomenon, but I think the article I quoted from hit the nail on the head.

'Taste isn't kind'. Hannibal Lecter to Clarice Starling. The Silence of the Lambs. Thomas Harris.

[keiliss]

Oh yessss, I was putting a few names to that as I read it. If you think you've already Arrived, I guess there's no need to push the envelope. Thanks for sharing that, it made me smile.

And Hannibal's quote -- ha. Yes!

*hugs*

[spiced_wine]

Oh yessss, I was putting a few names to that as I read it. If you think you've already Arrived, I guess there's no need to push the envelope

I don't understand how people reach that conclusion, but there you go!

So if you think you can't write - even if you can - it's just because you are extremely hard on yourself!