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subjective judgement
Tuesday, 4 September 2012 06:42 pmI just listened to a story read out by its writer. I'm sure he was proud of his work. He'd spent so much time and effort on it, first writing and then reading it aloud as a two and a half hour long recording. All that work and the story is sadly, embarrassingly littered with clichéd phrases and story-devices.
This is deeply worrying to me. The problems in this guy's story were clearly quite invisible to him. Do my stories have such glaring faults? Am I simply unable to see them? Scary.
I know my writing has faults. I'm trying very hard to learn through practice, but even if my stories are terrible (oh god I hope they aren't) it won't stop me continuing to try. I figure that I'm an average human with a brain of average intelligence, so I should be able to develop a skill with training. Subjectively, it is difficult to be sure, but I think my writing may be improving. I have a target: if, after about 10 books, my writing is still less than satisfying I'll consider giving up.
I can't help wondering if I'm doing the right thing, though. Maybe I'm wasting my time. Maybe I should be concentrating on drawing, or 3D modelling, or programming. Unfortunately there is no way to tell... and would I be wasting my time there too...?
I worry that I've wasted so damn much of the one and only life I'll ever have.
This is deeply worrying to me. The problems in this guy's story were clearly quite invisible to him. Do my stories have such glaring faults? Am I simply unable to see them? Scary.
I know my writing has faults. I'm trying very hard to learn through practice, but even if my stories are terrible (oh god I hope they aren't) it won't stop me continuing to try. I figure that I'm an average human with a brain of average intelligence, so I should be able to develop a skill with training. Subjectively, it is difficult to be sure, but I think my writing may be improving. I have a target: if, after about 10 books, my writing is still less than satisfying I'll consider giving up.
I can't help wondering if I'm doing the right thing, though. Maybe I'm wasting my time. Maybe I should be concentrating on drawing, or 3D modelling, or programming. Unfortunately there is no way to tell... and would I be wasting my time there too...?
I worry that I've wasted so damn much of the one and only life I'll ever have.