Writing drabbles was, in hindsight, an excellent thing to do for me also because I tend to be terribly rambly and long-winded ordinarily - why say something in one sentence if I can take ten? So starting with drabbles really made me think about every word, every emotion, weigh them, consider how to get rid of what wasn't needed.
Not that I thought about it in those terms to start with!
I told Annie that I wasn't a real writer b/c I didn't have my own ideas but only responded to prompts.
Hee. I know just what you mean. And yes, it's wrong! But it's sometimes hard not to think that way, because there is the feeling that writing starts with that seed, the idea, and with a prompt, one can't help but feel that this seed is not your own, even if it gives birth to a unique, completely original tale, which no one else could have written.
(Must read that series)
Yes, you must! *encourages*
What are you afraid of in terms of acceptance?
I don't really even know. It's an odd mixture of feelings - I want validation, and at the same time, I've come to feel almost reluctant to accept it. I want comments, and at the same time, I don't. (I do want at least one, if I post something, because no comments at all can feel rather awful, somehow.) And lately I've felt disinclined to post some things to a wider audience, outside LJ, because I don't really want to share with everyone ... or something. It's weird, and I'm trying to make sense of it.
I want to write a sequel to my SSHG exchange fic, but I think I need some more distance from it before I even think about that. My exchange fic this time around was the longest and most difficult story I've written (and I'd like to think my best; I have no idea really - but I can feel how I've evolved as a writer with practice and experience), so once I'd finished that, I just wanted to wash my hands of it. For now. *g*
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Date: 2011-08-29 02:11 pm (UTC)Not that I thought about it in those terms to start with!
I told Annie that I wasn't a real writer b/c I didn't have my own ideas but only responded to prompts.
Hee. I know just what you mean. And yes, it's wrong! But it's sometimes hard not to think that way, because there is the feeling that writing starts with that seed, the idea, and with a prompt, one can't help but feel that this seed is not your own, even if it gives birth to a unique, completely original tale, which no one else could have written.
(Must read that series)
Yes, you must! *encourages*
What are you afraid of in terms of acceptance?
I don't really even know. It's an odd mixture of feelings - I want validation, and at the same time, I've come to feel almost reluctant to accept it. I want comments, and at the same time, I don't. (I do want at least one, if I post something, because no comments at all can feel rather awful, somehow.) And lately I've felt disinclined to post some things to a wider audience, outside LJ, because I don't really want to share with everyone ... or something. It's weird, and I'm trying to make sense of it.
I want to write a sequel to my SSHG exchange fic, but I think I need some more distance from it before I even think about that. My exchange fic this time around was the longest and most difficult story I've written (and I'd like to think my best; I have no idea really - but I can feel how I've evolved as a writer with practice and experience), so once I'd finished that, I just wanted to wash my hands of it. For now. *g*