Poll-yah!

[leethet]

Note: I was reviewing some old posts about the craft and remembered that I had had some really fun ones in another fandom so I went over there and collected some, and will post a few here. Those who know me know this, but for those who don't: You can say anything in my LJ. If it's offensive you won't get a pass on it, but I censor no one, I ban no one, and I'm not afraid of being corrected or disagreed with. This is unlikely to come up in regard to these writing questions; just makin' the point.

Here's the thing. I re-read my own stuff and I like it, but I don't love it. I wouldn't place me in a list of my favorite writers, or more accurately, in a list of the best fandom writers. So ...

[Poll #1974441]

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Comments

[mayamaia.livejournal.com]

I tend to like my writing well enough, but what makes some of my stories meaningful to me is beyond even that, a place where the original inspiration lives alongside the story. When my writing works, it has a particular special life to me.

When my writing doesn't work, I puzzle and fiddle with it, and I may change things for any work at any time, except for drabble-sized unimportant things.

And I have a lot of patience with bad writing when it comes to fandom. I will read all the way through a bad fic, usually, if it is not simply disgusting and cruel. I find my own writing is not in that category, so it is not difficult to read my own work.

[leethet.livejournal.com]

I agree with you about the "genius" that makes us write - that creative spark is profoundly valuable to me and I miss it terribly now that the menopause has robbed me of it. Although I am slowly stumbling through some fic writing now, so maybe it'll come back. It's been deeply important to me my whole life. It is, however, separate from my evaluation about the quality of my writing as compared to writing that I consider excellent.