Uuuuuuuuuuuuuugh...

[ibonekoen]

My writing sucks. :| Too many repetitive actions. Everybody nods and smiles. It's all telling the action and plot and not enough showing. Detached and clinical are words that are coming to mind to describe my writing style...or lack thereof, more accurately.

I know, I know, that's what revisions are for, but if I can't even come up with something more than "he nodded and snorted" the first time around, what makes me think I can do better the second?

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[backinblack.livejournal.com]

Your writing does NOT suck. And I swear to God, I spend every other moment mentally berating myself for the same thing. SHOW, NOT TELL, too much exposition, too much HE SAID, HE DID, etc. But at the end of the day you should know (I should more often remember) that pretty much every writer struggles with that.

[ibonekoen]

I guess I need to stop comparing myself to others? Because I read fabulous works by some of my favorite authors (yours included) and I have all these emotions and feelings just from reading them, and I don't get that with my own writing. I don't feel like it's there.

You're right. Every writer does struggle with it. I just don't know how to get over it, I guess? X(