Huh. You know, I make comments like that fairly often, particularly when struggling with a first draft. It never even crossed my mind that people would assume that meant I was *publishing* crap. The crap stage is just a normal part of the writing process.
When you write and know a lot of writers and there's more open discussion of process, it's an easy assumption -- but there's an illusion that some readers have that is one part hero worship, and the reality causes strong cognitive dissonance and often (undeserved) sense of betrayal.
And I realized I haven't really said that on LJ before, so I thought I would.
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Date: 2008-04-05 01:37 am (UTC)When you write and know a lot of writers and there's more open discussion of process, it's an easy assumption -- but there's an illusion that some readers have that is one part hero worship, and the reality causes strong cognitive dissonance and often (undeserved) sense of betrayal.
And I realized I haven't really said that on LJ before, so I thought I would.