Well, isn't this great?

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I used to write like this.

And back then people have told me that they found it too tedious to read, that I was being too cryptic and I'm not narrating enough.
"It's so poetic, I don't get it."

I used to think I was a decent writer, and from what I knew back then I really was. But people kept on telling me how much I sucked and how they hated my

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[ericadawn16]

(hugs) It'll come back. Don't give up. You could try writing things out of your comfort zone or different genres. It's also VERY important to read a lot and not just your usual stuff, but again, things out of your comfort zone or different genres.

Have you ever read Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes?

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I hope it will! I really miss it. Yeah reading is really important, and I do hope that I will get to read more once I get the chance.

I haven't? I assume it's good?

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:)

Thank you hon. I'm still trying!

[grassle]

Your writing does not suck. You know how fussy I am - do you think I'd read it if it did?!!

We can't be everyone's cup of tea: if people don't like your style, they're not forced to read it.

I agree with the comment about reading a lot. Also just start and finish a piece. Put something at the top of the page before you start - a quote, a pic, outline of the story, etc., so you're not looking at a white page.

Huge equator-size hugs.

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I know I know! But I just keep on feeling that I should be at least decent, or perhaps being decent isn't enough.

True.

Yeah I know! I'm quite a picky reader. I should change that about myself.

*hugs*

[postcardmystery]

Um um um hi, the pingback bot sent me here, I hope I'm not intruding

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OMG UM HI NO YOU'RE NOT INTRUDING AT ALL

I shared the style you have in your fic in my original writing, at the time I always valued the "less is more/somewhat poetic" approach, yet people (classmates, instructors etc) tell me it's not enough. At that time I was in fandom but I didn't have a good grasp on the characters so I didn't write fan fic.I just feel very disheartened that this style got washed out of me. Knowing it didn't work in original writing, I could've used it in fan fic, but I can't anymore.

Thank you :)

I do get lost a bit too easily, what with my confidence in writing falling a bit low after being in a writers block for two years. But yeah, I need to remind myself that good writing doesn't just come to me, I have to work for it.

(No don't go away! Thank you for leaving such a thoughtful comment. I truly appreciate you taking the time out to come to my journal to give me a shove. I needed it :D)

[incandescent]

Hmm...I definitely know how that is. My writing style is nowhere near great, and I certainly know it. I guess that whenever I feel like this - just down and hopeless and despairing about my writing and self - I just tell myself that doing nothing is just that, nothing. I'm not going to get any better or change or learn if I wait for it. I dunno, that's just what I tell myself.

YOU DO NOT SUCK YOU ARE FABULOUS AND I NEED MORE POETRY IN MY LIFE. *HUG*

Sometimes having a request post will give you the necessary inspiration. :)

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I tell myself the same thing: If I just idle around and be depressed, then my writing will never improve. But at the same time writing is a painful process when you doubt yourself, and I think that's what's hindering me.

DAWW THANK YOU BB