And now for troubles I have with my own fic! Oh noes!

[beautifulntime]

Top....oh, crap, a lot....things I dislike about my fics.  Because if I’m going to make a post about what bothers me in other people’s fics, I should treat myself the same.  Any time I say ‘you’ I’m talking to myself, at least theoretically.  Also, this list is far from complete, and I do welcome any concrit type comments if you notice other trends

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[bas_math_girl]

Boy, you're hard on yourself!!! Who said being OCD was totally bad? Oh, and I might ask about 'frivolous' later.... just saying! ;D

It is always a pleasure to Brit pick for you; so do not hesitate to ask. :D

[beautifulntime]

As well I should be. So much improvement, so little time. I keep feeling like I'm trolling with some of the stuff that comes out of my fingers. Gah. :/

Ask me and I'll kill you. You have no idea how mad that made me in school. :p

Oh, I don't plan on stopping. ^_^

[beautifulntime]

It's because LJ ate it. Like frakking hardcore ate it. It took me over an hour to fix it, and even then I decided to delete the entry and paste from Word again.

My fighter keeps getting knocked THIS CLOSE to unconscious. My ardent (who is his daughter, and a planes hopper) saved his butt a couple weeks ago, but she's gone again now (she's our stand-in healer since it's easy to work a planes hopper into a story rather than having a whole new character show up when we don't have anyone). My fighter and my friend's rogue are bloody amazing flanking buddies. ^_^

Hold on, I'm confused. You left one of your party members? Bwah?

[beautifulntime]

Heh, heh, heh.

My fighter used to be an NPC, but he's my druid's husband (best DM ever!), so while she's incubating my ardent he's going around wrecking stuff. He has a daily power that does more healing than our healer's primary ability. And he's a fighter. He freaking rocks.

Incidentally, I'm creeping on MSN and have a funny story for you if you're interested. :D

[mutive]

Hah hah hah. I totally do the same thing. (You should totally post a discussion post up on Critique_Circle regarding this, too!) OMG, like...I am the worst rambler on earth. And 95% of what I say reads like I got absolutely high on something and was handed a key board. (Usually it's edited into submission, but still!) But, you know, hating parts of your writing is good. I think it helps you to grow as a writer. Maybe...

[beautifulntime]

I'm considering it. I know I internally angst about so many things I do wrong with my writing, but some of them HAVE to be me just being a jerk to myself, right? RIGHT?!?! But yes. I totally know what you mean. I've always wanted someone to properly look over my work, no matter what it is, to tell me what I've done well and what I've done rather poorly. I'm too angsty about my writing, and oddly enough the cure for it (at least I believe) is to have someone tell me all the things I suck at. And sadly, despite that being the purpose of this post, no one's actually helping. Gah. More angst

[mutive]

Yeah, I think that the best way to get over the angst (to a certain extent, anyway) is to have someone you basically like who is brutally honest go over it and say, "this is what's working, this is what's not, and here's how I'd improve it if it were mine". The challenge, of course, is being emotionally sturdy enough to tolerate that (which can be tough, I'll admit, especially if you're not used to it), and finding someone who can say all that in a way that you find constructive

[beautifulntime]

Indeed. I'm actually not the most emotionally stable person (bloody brain damage and the like making me a basket case half the time) but that doesn't mean I don't want to improve or anything, you know? It's supposed to be hard to be good. If it were easy, everyone would be a published author.

I'm not worried about people stealing my stuff. I'm worried about the possibility that people would link my RL writing to my fics. It's just something I wouldn't be comfortable with, so I'm trying to decide if I want to stay in the comm and post or if I want to creep in with my other LJ and do it from there. I really think I'd just use the community for snippets, however, or for flash fiction or other things that I'm just sort of doing for fun (although mostly non-fic), but I need to decide what I want to do before I really start posting, blah blah.

The story I was thinking of is actually here if you're interested. It's a silly little thing, to be honest, something I wrote in like five minutes that has nothing to do with anything, which

[doctorsgirl26]

I agree that I'm adorable! Stop being so hard on yourself! I will start being mean about your fics if it makes you happy! I have nothing to add! I think you should start a Shaun/Donna comm (like you don't have enought to do already).