Damien.

How often are you happy/content/pleased with a piece of work of yours? I find myself sort of content, but there's always a little nagging voice saying; "This could be better." It's very rare that I'm blown away by my own words and can't think of any changes. And you?

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Malone

Happy? Pleased? Rarely.

Content is more common, but it takes awhile to get there.

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terrib

There's always that little nagger....

SevenWritez

Even the greatest of works praised out the ass by critics and public alike have to suffer the cynical eye of the writer who produced them. I don't believe any artist, in any vocation, is ever fully satisfied with their work. There's always the desire to be better.

PrisonerOfPrey

I'm usually really happy with it at first...then I read it again and it just seems bad. Then again, with my story's...i'm never happy with them.

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With every passing thought I weep/
Lead me into nights dark bliss/
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JHB

I go from "this is brilliant" to "this is stupid".

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SevenWritez

To, "I should just give up." And so the cycle continues.

Malone

Adrian's old signature was a Hemingway quote along the lines of "For every one good page I write, I throw out ninety-nine." That's one of those lines from the greats that keeps me going.

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Kast13

I hate the feeling when you think something is really, really good, then read it again and realize its a throw away.

A-L

I wrote some stuff lately that I am quite proud of, but I looked at some of my other stuff and shuddered. It almost made me trash an entire story. We are our own worst critic.

cowpops

Often I write something and then a period of time goes by, I look back, and "oh wow, how stupid." Everyone does that. It's just that much more dramatic at my young age because I'm learning WAY the hell too much in a tiny space of time.

I am happy with some of the poetry I write. Pleased is a kind of horrid word when it describes art.. Stories I'm usually content. If I find myself unimpressed and disappointed, I just stop writing on it and work on something else.

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Sam Winchester

When you start off writing originally, you think everything you write is good. Then, when you begin to write more and more and start improving significantly, you look back at the work you wrote when you started and think: What the fuck was I on? In ten years time you'll look back on the stuff you're writing now and think the same. Probably. Hopefully. There is always room for improvement. Unless, of course, you're a published author with his/her name made, and then you don't need to worry about improving.

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Tiamat10

Yeah, then you can actively try to get worse!

I don't think 'pleased' is a state many writers can enjoy for too long. Even if we write something and still like it a week later, even if our friends like it, even if our critique group likes it--once a half-dozen editors send you a rejection notice, that 'pleased' feeling dissipates pretty quick.

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tucanbundy

I'm never happy with anything.Nothing pleases me.I don't trust me, though.I seem to be a total pessimist.I may be the greatest writer who ever lived (fairly unlikely), but I'll always think I'm the worst.No matter what.

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k3ng

I'm only pleased when someone else who reads my works ends up pleased too.
So, no.

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