Finding your own mistakes
Jul. 2nd, 2002 12:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tanaiseOne of the strengths here seems to be the continued exposure to your own flaws. Trust me, the fourth time you see someone else do a bad job at something you use, you start paying attention to how you're doing it even more so than usual. I see flaws in my writing that I didn't see before. I see places I need to work on, and areas that I still freaking am not paying attention to, though I mean to. I'm not cutting anything from this story though. Every time I think I know what the story doesn't need, I'm totally wrong. So they can just have it all, and tell me what I should take out. And I'm going to go back through and put in some scents, as the main character is blind: I've got the touch and hearing details well enough developed, I think.
I'll tell you one thing not to do when you're feeling depressed about the suckiness of your prose. Don't go wander through the Clarion Alumni page. And in particular, don't stop at Cory Doctorow's page. You will then decide to throw yourself from the balcony. Luckily Rudi's door was open, so he nicely chatted with me for a while, and we looked over the quote list for the t-shirt, and giggled at some of them (alas, all the seal sex ones have been removed, but there will be a seal on the front of the shirt at least.), and I ended up feeling much better.
I'll tell you one thing not to do when you're feeling depressed about the suckiness of your prose. Don't go wander through the Clarion Alumni page. And in particular, don't stop at Cory Doctorow's page. You will then decide to throw yourself from the balcony. Luckily Rudi's door was open, so he nicely chatted with me for a while, and we looked over the quote list for the t-shirt, and giggled at some of them (alas, all the seal sex ones have been removed, but there will be a seal on the front of the shirt at least.), and I ended up feeling much better.
