Well, Great

[jesterjoker]

I've given my sixth finished book, Instability to four people: my friend Joanne, my friend Kalzarius, my sister and my dad. Neither Kalzarius nor my sister have started reading it. Bleh. Joanne was giving me "this has ideas but the execution is off" and Dad just gave me a "I have no idea what's going on" and "wtf". It certainly appears I'm still

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[travelintheways]

Joanne sez: well, the same mistakes to the extent that most writers have their weak spots. But I'm not as lost as I've been in the past - indeed, I can see that your writing does become slowly but surely clearer with every new thing you send me. For serious.

This time less of it was being literally unable to picture what was happening than following your unique style of writing and everything that's going on underneath the surface. This sounds like an odd thing to say, but there are certain points where it strikes me that your writing reads like a translation from another language. I have no idea what this signifies.

[jesterjoker]

Yeah, this was a heat-of-the-moment post. I do them on LJ a lot, it's my place to vent. Dad told me more and I guess it wasn't THAT bad. But it's not everyday I genuinely get a WTF.

I think that's a good thing. Like that I'm getting clearer. And I read like a foreign translation?? I thought WTF was cool. That's boggling.