Questions

[queenrikki]

Do you ever wonder sometimes whether or not you can actually write? Does it ever occur to you that you are wasting your life playing around with words? Do you fear that people will hate every word you put down and call you a not talent hack?

I do.

I hate to let other people see anything I've written. I just always assume that they will tell me that I'm no good and to stop wasting their time.

*gah*

I'm 21, I should be too old to feel this way. Most of the time I really don't care what other people think, but when it comes to writing, it's like I'm nine again and running away from my classmates.

Comments

[tartanboxers.livejournal.com]

I'm 40, and I can get to feeling that way. I think we all do from time to time.

[queenrikki-hp.livejournal.com]

:D

I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way sometimes. I actually just finished reading something I wrote a while ago. I actually thought it was pretty good, so I now realized that I don't totally suck at this writing thing.

[madeof-stars.livejournal.com]

I'm 33 and feel the same way all the bloody time, so don't worry. Writers are notoriously bad at believing in what they do. We are all our own worst editors; at least those of us that are worth our own weight in salt. It sounds sick, but I know when I start to totally like something I wrote then something is wrong.