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09-19-2008, 04:14 PM
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Nope. Well, very rarely. Most of the time I look at my writing and feel like crying.
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09-19-2008, 04:19 PM
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The day my own writing impress me is the day I quit writing.
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09-19-2008, 04:49 PM
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You guys should give yourselves more credit. Go read Dan Brown or Harry Potter, then come back and read your stuff and compare. Your writing probably looks a lot better now, huh? Hopefully, at least.
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09-19-2008, 04:52 PM
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I fucking hate Harry Potter.
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My crappy parody story Plagiarism NOTE - Story is IN PROGRESS
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09-19-2008, 04:55 PM
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Exactly. I've never read it, but I've seen little blurbs, and it's horrible. So by reading popular stuff and comparing it to your own, you can see that you're doing quite a good job, relatively.
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09-19-2008, 04:57 PM
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I don't know if impressed is the right word. I think I can judge my writing, and most of the time I can recognize when it's working. I can say that I'm often pleased with it. Otherwise, I wouldn't bother. Whether others are, in some form of wider audience, remains to be seen.
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09-19-2008, 05:01 PM
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I'm a tough critic of my own stuff, too. But when I've rewritten a scene over & over, then finally get it to say what I want it to say, Yeah, I'm impressed.
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09-19-2008, 06:25 PM
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If my work impress me, I think it can't get better. If I think it can't get better, there's no point trying. And if there is no point trying, I point in keep writing.
So yeah, the day my writing impress me is the day I stop writing. 
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09-19-2008, 06:47 PM
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In my WIP, there is one scene that just blows me away with how well I captured what I wanted to say. Now if the rest of the piece can be brought up to that same level.
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09-19-2008, 07:35 PM
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Quote:
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You guys should give yourselves more credit. Go read Dan Brown or Harry Potter, then come back and read your stuff and compare. Your writing probably looks a lot better now, huh? Hopefully, at least.
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the dude (dan brown) uses the same plots over and over again....anyone could do that.
as to the main thread...sort of..I'll write something... a couple of lines, a paragraph or a dialogue that ill be impressed with for about two days..then i'll think 'this is crap' and trash it. *sigh* |
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09-19-2008, 08:40 PM
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Harry Potter is kinda impressive. I'm impressed how she can spend so many books and tell so little of any interest.
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09-19-2008, 08:52 PM
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I think you guys are taking what I said the wrong way.
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09-19-2008, 09:12 PM
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I've often looked back over my work and been impressed by it but never directly after I write it.
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09-19-2008, 09:15 PM
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I think you guys are taking what I said the wrong way.
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Yeah, Malone, the writing in those books is not the best.
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09-19-2008, 09:24 PM
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I'm negative towards my work most of the time. It seems like if I read a good piece by someone else, I think mine is automatically bad.
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